Assignment objective:

• Assess personal strengths related to professionalism.

Connection to course student learning outcome:

• This assignment measures the chapter learning objective: Understand professionalism, start developing business etiquette skills, and build an ethical mind-set—important qualities digital-age employers seek.

Steps:

1. Read 11.3 Soft Skills: Personal Strengths Inventory on page 379. Choose one category of the soft skills listed.
2. For your chosen category, write three to five well-written (proofread, grammatically correct, free of spelling errors) sentences illustrating your skills. In telling your story, use these four STAR steps: describe a situation, the task or problem you needed to solve, what action you took, and the results.