Self-Development and Self-Esteem

• Self-development involves continuous personal improvements, optimizing skills, and leveraging your potential.
• Includes cognitive, emotional, spiritual, and religious aspects of a person.
• Requires beneficial changes leading to positive outcomes in life.
• Enables genuine autonomy, empowering people to control changes they want and fulfill their desires.
• Facilitates strong relationships by building constructive interactions.
• Helps cope with challenges, manage failures, and tackle difficulties positively.
• An important driver for unlocking a person's potential by removing self-restricting beliefs, defining priorities, and promoting motivation/commitment.

Self-Esteem Components

• Rooted in biological and psychological inheritance, determining someone's outgoingness (open vs. closed personality).
• Openness involves speaking, sharing, taking risks/initiative while closedness involves less talking and excessive thinking/caution.
• Shaped by experiences from family, school, culture, historical period, and environment, contributes to someone's psychological makeup.
• Represents life experiences gained through involvement in diverse backgrounds (professional, political, social, religious).
• Professional psychological support is needed to determine a person's desired level of self-development to avoid biased interpretations.

Self-Knowledge Definition

• A person's ability to understand how they function at multiple levels.
• Involves higher cognitive functions like language, perception, focus, and memory.
• Covers emotions, motivations, self-esteem, and self-confidence for interacting with the environment.
• Includes key physiological activities (eating, drinking, breathing and reproduction).

Importance of Self-Knowledge

• Critical first step to build/improve skills, in one's personal or professional life.
• Attaining a greater degree of maturity requires acknowledging strengths/weaknesses/potential.
• Identifying the life a person wants is a must for self-knowledge development.
• Developing self-knowledge relies on foundations such as openness to the external world (interacting/connecting with others); building self-confidence through new experiences; introspection for knowing core needs.
• Failing to meet fundamental needs can cause demotivation and lack of initiative.

Simplified Self-Knowledge Method

• Analysis of two components: the "living conscience" (ability to internally distinguish between good and harm), becoming someone's capacity for competence, organization, and effort rather than chaos.
• Examining oneself and their environment to clarify the positive/negative effects gained through socialization.
• Examine how one handles rules and regulations, deeply-held beliefs, and ethical values. and the reasons behind one's unconscious actions.

Steps

• List positive traits in an individual’s life; make a list of their negative attributes in another paper.
• Compare the two lists to highlight strengths and weaknesses.
• Prioritize steps for short, medium, and long-term to achieve planned changes.
• Practice optimism constantly by focusing on wins and counteracting negativity.
• Maintain a personal diary to clarify thoughts and feelings.
• Record better emotional management, better relationships and stronger immune systems from writing in diaries.
• Decreases activity in the amygdala region (related to fear, worry, and sadness)

Self-Esteem Concepts

• Determining one's self-esteem necessitates three questions: how they perceive oneself; whether judgments lean toward compassion/empathy; and the way failures are handled.
• Self-esteem contains self-love which is made up of emotional support from the family in early stages of development and emotional stability.
• Self-esteem contains self-perception, which is a sense of the world that has correlation to objective reality.

Enhancing Self-Esteem

• Engage psychological assessment for determining areas of weaknesses
• Accept one's identity in its realistic state, taking into account all limitations and shortcomings.
• By honoring truth and honest values build self-confidence in the process.
• Commit to launching initiatives in every setting and under any setbacks to build determination.
• Silence internalized critics in favor of support for movement and dedication.
• View setbacks to learn rather than as failures because failure is essential to succeeding.

Improving Relationships

• Affirm oneself in all scenarios, accepting both appreciation and critique with perspective .
• Develop empathy for others.
• Bolstering social support from others prevents egocentricity and improves capacity.
• Self-esteem builds confidence and one is not in place without the other.
• Develop confidence and esteem throughout life.

Communication definition

• Communication is exchanging thoughts, opinions, knowledge, and emotions using linguistic and nonlinguistic mediums.
• Clarity, choosing words, being empathetic with others, self-assurance and assertion, active listening, and focus are crucial communication skills.
• The sender's capacity to adjust is a core competency when with adapting to the receiver's persona.
• Psychological studies identify four communication channels linked to certain personality profiles.

Communication Channels

• Direct; focused on brevity and getting to the point, best suited to personalities with busy schedules (the achiever), and those lack mental attention.
• Informative; relies on questioning for response, best for pragmatic people who analyze facts and persistent people with strong opinions.
• Empathetic; shares feelings and builds harmony, suited to someone sensitive and friendly.
• Relaxed; unconcerned; overlooks details, which makes the presentation unsuitable for serious and committed.
• Adapt these four communication channels smoothly based on personalities.

Active listening

• Active listening is an important aspect for communication processes.
• People have troubles with active listening because they use it to formulate responses rather than to comprehend meaning.
• For effective dialogue, focus on processing the message thoroughly as well as understanding the speaker's character.

Preconditions of Active Listening

• Remove interruptions and distractions.
• Give them whatever time they require to share beliefs.
• Avoid prior biases regarding the speaker or viewpoints.
• Use open-ended questions; make one's views more clear.
• To properly comprehend the message, restate.
• Give each other respect and consideration through thoughtful interactions.

Errors

• Focus negativity within.
• Stick with ideas.
• Show conceit and egomania constantly.
• Act professional, never being wrong.
• Be sensitive, by explaining, with the intent to listen.

Emotional Intelligence Definition

• Being aware of one's emotions; controlling them; feeling; knowing/understanding; and empowering.
• Emotional intelligence needs proper recognition in personal and work lives.

Descriptions of the Four Basic Emotions

• Anger triggers by someone's feelings of frustrations and injustices, indicates crossing boundaries and is useful to defend ourselves.
• Sadness comes from losing someone, failing, or feeling disillusioned.
• Helps signal something unpleasant or dangerous; speeds up physical response; is the body's response to threat.
• Joy comes from accomplishing, improving relationships, reduces stress, and increases the brain power and stamina.

Improving Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional intelligence helps with tough times.
• Assess personal emotional patterns to discover how someone fits in (people who struggle; those moderate; or those that understand emotions properly).
• Classify triggers.
• Indicate harmful behaviors by assessing troubles that an individual experiences; they promote mental illness.
• Emotions help build solid relationship.

Conflict Management Definition

• Contradictory views.
• Disagreement causes strain in relationships and crisis between people who want their way.
• Conflict is a process with four phases (problem, misunderstandings, recognition, and complete disagreement).

Conflict Solution Phases

• Initial issues dissolve if not overblown.
• Misunderstandings require sympathy, empathy, and agreement.
• Conflicting parties should note agreements.
• Dead end for groups and creates stress because stage are in a difficult setting.
• A solution involves emotions, healing, and consideration.

Conflicts Arise From

• Conflicting parties lack information.
• Opposing ideals form interpretations.
• Some workers oppose updated procedures.
• Guidelines are overlooked when creating or using information.
• Disregarding feelings causes psychological concerns.
• Manage disputes by knowing the causes, such as information.

Management Strategies

• Evasion; best to avoid with superficial issues or be patient.
• Control the will and make a decision.
• Negotiate by compromising standards leading to agreement.
• Accommodate agreement, while the best is to accept fully.
• Cooperate with needs in mind now to choose the ideal solution.

Changing Three Roles

• Do not succumb to weak people and seek sympathy.
• A person should be charitable.
• Instead, be stable for settlement.

Public Speaking

• Many fear public speaking or glossophobia.
• Public Speaking is a terror

Gathering Info

• Learn people's expectations, motivations and fears.
• Know about the subject(s).
• Clarify goals and communications.
• Determine aims/reasons for a demonstration (e.g., sharing information or creating motivation).

Influencing People Requires Knowledge

• Communicate ideas and information using evidence, statistics, and thinking.
• Encourage change and affect feelings.

Public Speakers

• Join visual connections or make displays.
• Show feeling or emotion easily.
• Be humbl; tell stories for a presentation.

Plan To Speak (Stages)

• Ease mind to listen.
• Begin to drift with negativity or not being on agreement.
• Re-engage the audience.
• Sum up the high point.