Here's how you can address questions about your weaknesses during a presentation.

Self awareness is so important!! Your weakness can also be a strength and a strength can be a weakness! It’s important to consider the pros and cons before you share! Learning to say “no” is becoming a strength!!! It was a weakness for a very long time!

A common question in Interviews which tends to throw people off. The question tries to achieve two thing amongst others. 1. To know if candidates are self-aware. 2. To know if candidates have identified their limitations and if anything is being done about it. To answer this question, balance is required. Avoid over-selling your weakness while ensuring you are honest. Moreover, your weakness might not necessarily be seen as a weakness. At all times, take the positive route towards attempting this question.

Remain confident and honest about what you know or don’t know. Show in your body language. Do anticipate potential issues and prepare responses in advance. Acknowledge any weaknesses transparently, providing context and mitigation steps. During the presentation, listen and encourage audience engagement.

I think when it comes to sharing our own weaknesses, we should be very careful. As our weakness can also be our weak point that people can easily use against us.

Rehan’s perspective?: Presenting weaknesses in a positive light can be highly effective in various settings, including job interviews, performance reviews, and team meetings. This approach demonstrates self-awareness, honesty, and a proactive attitude towards personal development. Here are a few key points to consider: ? Self-Awareness ? Growth Mindset ? Problem-Solving Skills ? Credibility ? Balanced Perspective ? Action Plans By leveraging these points, you can effectively present your weaknesses in a way that underscores your strengths and potential for growth, making a positive impression in any professional scenario. ( If anyone requires a better justification for any point, they can send a direct message.(words limit reached here)

Always be honest about your weaknesses, but make sure they can benefit the company or the role. For example: -I am a perfectionist, and I consider it a weakness because I have difficulty leaving a job incomplete, which can affect my time off.

Having identified your weakness add a positive spin to it. To reiterate, your weakness isn't necessarily a weakness. It all depends on the approach taken to present it. A positive spin spans many angles: - Talking about progress made towards it - While addressing it, always sound positive.

Spinning the wheel with positivity is an art which all presenters possess. While you address the audience with honesty in regards to your weakness, it is equally essential to give your presentation a right direction with a positive spin which demonstrates how you changed the weakness into your strength. For example - You used to have temperament issues in past and used certain practices to calm yourself over the years and now you are best when it comes to anger management. Narrate about those tips and tricks which audience takes back as a learning lesson which helped you once to convert your weakness into strength.

Reflection of the journey speaks volumes about any presenter. We all discard our few weaknesses at some point in life to welcome the positive changes. But how many among us keep the track of the progress we made? Very rare! Hence, talk about the gradual growth you saw post implementation of those tips and tricks while you were changing some aspects of yourself. Citing these examples would show the audience that you are a mature individual who accepts the flaws within and is willing to work upon them to change them.

Always take efforts for the short comings, and showing the work redirect the confidence in the person from the shortcomings. Make it quantitative, with X amount of time/efforts spent to sort Y to get Z results.

The steps you have followed to get here is a very interesting question for your audience. They often feel identified with them. We all go through difficult phases and by overcoming them we learn a lot, and it is that learning path that leads us to success.

In my experience, addressing your weaknesses shows clear vision and constructive thinking. It's a way to demonstrate your problem-solving skills by dealing with them effectively and outlining current and future solutions, as well as a roadmap for expected improvements in outcomes. Paradoxically, however, trying to avoid addressing your weaknesses or solely focusing on your points of strength without taking responsibility for them is a weakness in itself. This could affect your credibility. Overall, to strike a balanced approach in which you are acknowledging your weaknesses openly, but also highlighting how you are actively working to improve them is the key to showcasing your self-awareness and commitment to growth.

My goals are SMART. This is: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. This gives me inner peace. It provides me with clarity, focus and direction. Having SMART goals helps us live more intentionally and fulfillingly, propelling us toward success and personal well-being.

Story Telling is the best way to engage listeners. - Share a personal story that highlights your weakness in a relatable and engaging manner. ? Example: “I’d like to share a story about a time when my tendency to take on too many projects at once became overwhelming…” Also make sure to include a turning point as well.

Weaknesses - like strenghts - are nothing absolute. You are not weak or strong by definition, but only in relation to your audience and their needs. If you engage, listen to them and adress their concerns and wishes, you are strong. If you just "spool off" your prepared presentation, you are weak - and will not achieve your goal with the presentation.

If you have to present a tool, a good way to involve participants is to first ask them if they have ever used the tool and how they felt about it. At that time they will share their concerns, challenges and different points of view about the tool. Afterwards, it is very useful to invite them to use the tool and then ask them for feedback about the tool. Interaction with the audience is this type of presentation is key.

Engagement and active listening are critical tools in not only presentations but also in communication as a whole. In this day and age there are interpersonal skills that are all too often set aside because of technology; things like "text speak", jargon, and especially faceless emojis are finding their way into discussions and presentations to reach out instead of making a connection and comprehending the message for the audience, or in the case of the presenter trying to deliver a catchy albeit diluted message that should have been a text or email due to the inattention it receives from an overstimulated and educationally undernourished audience.

Every work has some strengths and some shortcomings. Every product is subject to trade-offs. By confidently owning your shortcomings, you display a belief in your trade-offs, showing a sense of confidence in your overall work.

Anxiety is normal in presenting or in interviewing, often for both parties - Presenter and Audience. As an educator teaching technical skills, I engage in classes several times a week with a variety of individuals from different areas of skill and expertise, often facing the challenges of what they know and experience versus what the curriculum dictates. In cases like mine where you know something about the audience and are a subject matter expert or even just proficient, it is just as important to be confident in the delivery , honest in the information and accepting of constructive feedback; also, PRACTICE your presentation until it becomes second nature, don't assume you are so skilled , you can deliver flawlessly from the hip.

First acknowledge them openly and briefly, showing self-awareness and a commitment to improvement. Focus on your strengths and the value you bring, and ensure your content is well-prepared and well-researched to compensate for any presentation shortcomings. Practice extensively to build confidence, and consider using visual aids to keep the audience engaged and support your key points. Additionally, invite feedback and questions to demonstrate openness to improvement and engagement.

Maybe a totally counter intuitive share. But , I feel we may sometimes not even worry too much about our weaknesses. So here, the admission or way ahead need not be as much about self improvement, as it is about needing to engage with someone who is blessed with the complimentary skill/knowledge/expertise. Afterall collaborating with others and making winners of them in itself will demonstrate large heartedness & servant leadership. Ofcourse, this is not from a space of not wanting to work on yourself. Rather it is to leverage more on your strengths. No?

Are you aware of your own weakness? If so, what are you doing about it? If not, why are you not self-aware? Working on minimising the negative impact of our flaws, making past mistakes right, and working proactively to overcome your negative habits with positive ones have a direct correlation to whether you will achieve your potential or not. Aiming high is good. Embracing responsibility is necessary. Realising the seriousness of your character flaws is a crucial component to achieving your goals and dreams in life.

Acknowledge them openly and honestly while also sharing that you are aware of them and working to grow in those areas. Provide an example of how you have identified a weakness and what you have done to implement changes or ways to grow. For example, in a previous role, I was pretty siloed from the rest of the team. The work I was doing was important and had broad impact. Unfortunately, the people who were responsible for my annual performance review were unaware and I had to learn how to “market” myself and what I accomplished during the year. I had to learn a new skill of setting up touch points with people to simply share what I was working on in a strategic way. Worked like a charm and I ended up getting promoted and a significant raise.