Effective Communication & Self-Reflection

• Effective communication & presentation skills are key to success
• Exams include midterm/course work (10 + 10) and written (80) components

Experiential Learning Cycle

• Begins with tangible experience
• Moves to reflective observation
• Leads to learning and abstract conceptualization
• Results in sharing, applying, and practicing what you have learned

Journey of Transformation

• Involves significant and fundamental change
• Can affect perspective, course, or behavior
• Begins with a concept
• Must be deliberate
• Cannot be imposed externally

Change Occurs in Three Dimensions

• Change of Mindset
• Change of Direction
• Shift in Action

Core Questions for Self-Reflection

• Who am I?
• What events made me who I am?
• Where am I going?

Influences on your genetic makeup

• Environmental factors and events
• Financial circumstances or government regulations
• Your manager, partner, or anyone in your surroundings
• How you were raised by your parents
• Experiences during your childhood

Seasons of Life

• 0-3 years: Am I loved?
• 4-8 years: Am I the center of attention?
• 9-12 years: Who am I? (Identity)
• 13-18 years: What can I do well? What defines me?
• 19-22 years: Where am I going?
• 23-30 years: Where can I fit in? What do I like to do?
• 31-40 years: What am I successful at?
• 41-50 years: How can I multiply success?
• 51-65 years: What is the legacy I want to leave behind me?
• 66-75 years: How can I be a source of wisdom? To whom?

Response-Ability

• "Response-ability" is the ability to choose your response
• Term coined by Stephen R. Covey

Important Questions for Self-Assessment

• What legacy will you leave?
• Would absence make an organizational difference?
• Are you a role model and If so, how?
• What distinguishes you from your generation?
• How are your followers? How do you impact people?
• Do you feel the need to quit?
• Are you able to embrace weakness?

Key Differences Between Character and Personality

• Character is demonstrated when no one is watching
• Personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive behavior

Primary Factor Influencing Personality

• All of the above; Genetic makeup, environmental factors and psychic factors

Theory Suggests Significant Shaping through upbringing

• Psychic factors are the primary influence on personality.