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60 Examples of Employee Weaknesses

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Employee weaknesses, better known as areas for improvement, are general aspects of an employee's performance that fall short of expectations. These are usually stated as strengths that need to be improved. For example, you wouldn't say that an employee is close-minded but rather that they need to work to be more open-minded. The following are common employee weaknesses.
Accuracy
Ambition
Analysis
Assertiveness
Attention to Detail
Budget Management
Business Impact
Candor
Compliance to Policy
Conflict Resolution
Cooperative Work
Customer Service
Dealing With Criticism
Decision Making
Diligence
Engagement
Engaging Customers
Enthusiasm
Friendliness
Generating Revenue
IT Skills
Influencing
Knowledge Areas
Learning
Managing Commitments
Managing Costs
Meeting Deadlines
Meeting Management
Motivation
Negotiation
Open-mindedness
Organization
Passion
Persistence
Personal Resilience
Politeness
Presentations
Prioritization
Problem Solving
Productivity
Professionalism
Project Management
Public Speaking
Risk Management
Risk Taking
Self-Direction
Service Quality
Solving Customer Problems
Stakeholder Management
Supporting Others
Teamwork
Time Management
Turnaround Time
Unfinished Work
Verbal Communication
Visibility
Visual Communication
Win-win Thinking
Work Quality
Work Throughput

Examples

Weaknesses are typically stated as a shortfall of a talent, skill, knowledge area or character trait. For example:
Lacked passion and commitment for solving customer problems.
Where an employee is high performing, weaknesses are carefully stated as minor suggestions for improvement using constructive criticism.
Achieved high productivity but took on several low value action items that wasted your talents. Consider pursuing time management techniques such as commitment management to further improve your productivity.

Low Performance

Low performance occurs when an employee isn't meeting the minimum expectations for their role and assignments such that their employer takes action such as putting the employee on a performance improvement plan. The following are the types of thing that may be viewed as low performance.
It is only fair to the employee to communicate low performance clearly and unambiguously without using flowery terms or indirect language. For example, "failed to meet key deadlines" as opposed to "work to enhance your time management approach."

Areas for Improvement

Areas for improvement are employee weaknesses or opportunities for an employee to do better in their work. These do not imply low performance and are stated in a positive way. The following are common areas for improvement.

Discussion

As an employee, if you are asked to document your own areas for improvement it is common to choose things that are "nice to have" but beyond the expectations for your role. For example, a software developer might choose public speaking as an area for improvement where this isn't required of their role but might be helpful.
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Learning
Meeting Management
Motivation
Negotiation
Personal Resilience
Prioritization
Problem Solving
Productivity
Professionalism
Project Management
Public Speaking
Risk Management
Risk Taking
Self-Direction
Service Quality
Teamwork
Time Management
Turnaround Time
Visual Communication
Win-win Thinking
Work Quality
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