Earthsoft Foundation of guidance present - Personality development

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Personality Development Practical Approach
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Index

• Personality definition
• Traits
• Good personality
• Personality development
• Hurdles in development
• Good manager
• Organisation culture

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Ask yourself

• Who are you?
• How well do you know yourself?
• What are you good at?
• What are your weaknesses, fears, innermost
  strengths and desires?
• What you want to be?
• Where are you headed?

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Its YOU
Don't compare yourself with any one in this
world.
If you compare, you are insulting yourself. You
are unique personality!
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Personality

• Personality is
• A prediction what a person will do in a
  particular situation
• The way an individual reacts interacts with
  others
• A individuals distinct patterns of thought,
  feeling, motives and behavior

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Personality

• Personality - Character or behavior of a person
  in different scenarios
• How character builds up?
• Scenario (inputs)
• Thoughts (process) mostly consistent
• Actions (output)
• Behavior (impression)
• Hereditary, upbringing, education environment
  build the personality

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Personality
Thoughts
Emotions
PERSONALITY
Behavior
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Attributes

• Personality includes aspects Motivation,
  Perception, Thought process, Emotions, Feeling,
  Reaction, Attitude, Value
• Various traits lead to a consistent way of
  behaviour like Introversion, Intelligence,
  Anxiety, Assertiveness, Aggressiveness,
  Prejudice, Musical aptitude, Honesty,
  Sensitivity, Seriousness Friendliness
• Positive Personality helps growing career. Good
  to aim, identify improve.

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Types

• Traits or characteristic is revealed consistently
  in a variety of situations
• Positive attitude have certain traits like
• A pleasing personality
• Caring ,confident, patience, and humble
• High expectations (?)
• Anticipating positive outcome
• Negative attitude have traits such as bitterness,
  resentment, unhappy anger, purposeless life,
  ill-health, prejudice, etc

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Competency of Self-Worth
Following domains of competency considered in
Adult evaluation of self worth (Harter)
Domain Domain
1 Intelligence 7 Sociability
2 Sense of humor 8 Adequacy
3 Job competence 9 Nurturance
4 Morality 10 Athletic ability
5 Physical appearance 11 Household management
6 Intimacy
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Physical aspects
Delivery Speed Communication skills Asking
questions Listening Building rapport Verbal
attributes Pronunciation Tone
Pitch Articulation To enhance vocabulary
Syllable / Stress Vowels sounds Group
discussion Public speaking Debates
To acquire improve each of above skills, one
has to take planned intense efforts
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Trait dimensions
Dimension Positive Points Negative Points
Extroversion Talkative , Frank Sociable Silent, Secretive Reclusive
Agreeableness Mild, Gentle, Good-natured, Not jealous Headstrong Irritable, Jealous
Conscience Choosy, Responsible, Honest, Careful, Hardworking) Careless. Undependable Dishonest, crook
Emotional stability Poised, Composed Calm Nervous, Excitable Anxious
Culture Polished, Imaginative Artistically, Sensitive Crude, Simple Artistically, Insensitive
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Surface traits
Positive Points Negative Points
Sociability Sentimentalism Responsive Affectionate Sentimental Social interest Dependent Independence Hostility Aloof Cold Unsentimental Lacking family interest Independent
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Type of personalities
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Directness

• Act proactively
• Naturally self confident, high ego people
• Hard-driving and decisive
• Candid (frank, open, outspoken, honest, blunt,
  straight, authoritative)
• Interested in results than people
• Attack things aggressively
• Dont realize how strongly they communicate
• Hate anyone looking over their shoulder
• Good Trouble shooters
• Thrive on solving problems

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Extroversion

• Are enthusiastic and pleasant
• Are versatile, Naturally optimistic (Positive)
• Like to build organization
• Get things accomplished through people
• Like team work, will involve people
• Like group discussions
• Encourage participative decision-making
• Persuasive
• Constantly selling themselves
• Concerned with how others respond to them
• Like to be noticed by others

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Pace

• Persistent and Co-operative
• Love peace and harmony
• Dependable and reliable
• Good Planners, Good listeners
• Do-not like to be rushed at the last minute
• Interested in making every move count
• Have good memory
• Time Schedule deadline are important
• Organize time to get work done on schedule
• Warm and friendly and make great friends
• Approach things in a methodical way

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Structure

• Hate to make mistakes
• Well organized
• Will double check themselves and others
• Are very loyal in their circle
• Have eye for details
• Good at developing systems
• Meticulous, Careful, Fussy Selective

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Profiles
Characters Characters
Outgoing Reserved
More intelligent Less intelligent
Dominant Submissive
Happy go-lucky Serious
Venturesome Timid(shy)
Sensitive Tough-minded
Emotionally stable Affected by feelings
Conscientious (careful) Expedient (measure)
Characters Characters
Suspicious Trusting
Imaginative Practical
Shrewd Fortnight
Apprehensive Self-assured
Experimental Conservative
Self-sufficient Dependent
Controlled Uncontrolled
Tense Relaxed
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What is maturity?
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AGE
ACTIONS
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Character Personality
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Cognitive Social-Learning

• Personality emerges from the mutual interactions
  of individuals, their thought process, actions,
  and their environments.

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Social-Cognitive Perspective
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Reciprocal Determinism
Internal World External World We
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Social Cognition?

• How children process information about their
  social worlds?
• - Social cognition might be mediating link
  between children's socialization experiences and
  their social behavior.

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Learned helplessness
Parents Friends Teachers Employers
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Humanistic Approach

• A state of flow arises when engaging in
  activities demanding skills and challenges

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Know yourself
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Trait Approach
MMPI Score Profile Showing Clinical Scales
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Trait Approach
Personality Consistency across Lifespan-Least
stable during childhood increases with age.
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Idea Real

• Anxiety due to gap between ideal real. Reason
  may be
• Circumstances
• Unable to take a stand
• Ignorance
• Purposely

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Adulthood
Social personality development in adulthood
involves self analysis identity issues in
various roles
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Friendship

• Maintaining relationships with friends is an
  important part of adult life
• Need for belongingness
• Sharing (Good bad events of life)
• Supporting during good bad times
• How do we choose our friends?
• Like minded
• Proximity (accessibility)
• Similarity (values, attitudes, ethnicity, etc.)
• Personal qualities (trustworthy, loyal, warm,
  supportive, honest, funny, etc.)

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Purpose of existence

• Some people work out of EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION,
  that drives people to obtain tangible rewards,
  such as money or prestige or recognition.
• Some people work out of INTRINSIC MOTIVATION,
  that causes people to work for their own
  enjoyment, not for the rewards work may bring.

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Personality Traits

• Particular tendencies to feel, think, and act in
  certain ways describe the personality of every
  individual
• Managers personalities influence their behavior
  and approach towards managing people and resources

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Big Five Personality Traits
Managers personality can best be described using
following points characterise!
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Solution
No one will manufacture a lock without a key.
Similarly God won't give problems without
solutions.
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Healthy Mind and a Healthy Body
Personality Development
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Good Personality

• Attributes of a good personality?
• Good physique, light mood, smiling face, alert
  conscious
• Pleasing manners etiquettes
• Well educated sharp thinking
• Personal and Professional integrity
• Trustworthiness and reliability
• Successful career
• Loving caring

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Healthy Body
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Human factors
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Healthy Body

• Nutrition No junk food
• Personal Hygiene
• Disciplining of daily routines
• Control of Mind
• Exercising
• Traditional methods (Yoga, Pranayam)
• Modern methods (Gym, aerobics, etc.)
• Walking and jogging

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When is mind unhealthy?

• Agitated mind is unhealthy
• What agitates human mind?
• Not getting what one desires
• Getting what one dislikes
• Uncontrolled emotions in the mind
• Continuous accumulation of such likes and
  dislikes stresses the mind out.
• Stress agitates the mind
• Stressed mind is unhealthy
• Learn to keep it cool however serious
• Stories about past future

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When is mind unhealthy?
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Behave
Be bold when you looseand be calm when you win.
Heated gold becomes ornament.   Beaten copper
becomes wires. Depleted stone becomes statue.
  More experience makes you sharper
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Healthy Mind

• Stress-free mind is healthy and calm
• Calm mind helps to control the situation well
• De-stressing the mind is needed
• How?
• Meditate be happy
• Hold no grudges, it harms you more
• Forgive forget
• Prevent accumulating day-to-day complexes
• Clean the slate - Stored complexes

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Cultivating a Healthy Mind

• Do not react
• Observe no reaction
• Continuous self awareness introspection
• Removing of accumulated complexes
• Path of service
• Intellectual self analysis (keep it simple)
• Path of devotion
• Path of meditation

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Looking in mirror

• Give few minute end of everyday
• Keep cool concentrate
• Introspect yourself, run a day story
• Clean the heart brain
• Be honest to yourself
• Control the mind situation
• Understand others point of view
• Forgive forget, Give up the grudges
• Understand it hurts pains you more
• Release the stress be in light mood
• Be happy

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Change yourself
Changing Face might change nothing.But Facing
the Change can
Don't complain about othersChange yourself to
see a change
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Successful story
Every successful person has a painful story.
Every painful story has a successful ending.
Accept the pain and get ready for success
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Start fresh
No one can go back and change a bad beginning
But anyone can start now and create a successful
ending.
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Analyse problem
If a problem can be solved, no need to worry
about it.
If a problem cannot be solved what is use of
worrying?
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Personality Development
Item Description
Deep faith towards work Determination to keep commitment Come what may attitude!
Positive personality Positive optimistic thinking Cultivating positive believes in others
Effective communication Precise to the points Set context, sharing the thoughts convince
Time management Managing time well, Work life balance Effective delegation
Problem solving Understanding problem, analyzing, solutioning selecting right resource
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Personality Development
Item Description
Team Spirit Working with heterogeneous team members, be a leader, not just a follower
Self confidence Ability to express and asking questions without fear
Learn ability Always learning new skills
Flexibility Guts to revisit the own views thoughts, revising as per the situation Accommodating aligning
Stability Keeping up the performance efficiency even under stress, keeping head cool!
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Personality Development
Item Description
Confidence Demonstrate rich self confidence
Decision making Precise decision making after data collection and analysis, know people well
Sense of humor Demonstrate sense of humor even while managing tough situation, learn to smile
Accepting criticism Large hearted, ready to introspect, accept criticism work on it non- politically
Not to worry Worries would not solve the problem, control the situation, mind brain
Language Be master of at least 3 languages
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Know your mistakes
Easy is to judge the mistakes of
others.Difficult is to recognize our own
mistakes.
It is easier to protect your feet with slippers
than to cover the earth with carpet.
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Hurdles in planning
Item Description
Laziness Inertia before starting, Need change in attitude Can be overcome by practicing
Incomplete information how many activities to complete the tasks/ project? Incomplete information delays the activity impacts the plan
Lack of self confidence In-ability difficulty in planning execution in-ability of coordinating activities Imagine the activities and mitigate the risks in advance
Over confidence Prefer actions to planning it invites risks Leads to failure if not experienced
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Hurdles in planning
Item Description
Mentality Planning is waste of time leads heroic approach results more efforts duration
Delay in Decision making Right decision at the right time helps to project stake holders Delay in decision making not sharing the decisions impacts project
Commitment Inability to commit due to lack of confidence or fear of being committed
Beating drums Sharing exaggerated information wrong updates lead to planning failure
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Experience
Mistakes are painful when they happen.
But year's later collection of mistakes is called
experience, which leads to success.
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Life
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy...
Life smiles at you when you are happy...Life
salutes you when you make others happy...
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Thank You