2-PerDev-12.pdf

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you to achieve life goals. Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage yourself impacts directly on your personal effectiveness. Personal effectiveness Bein...

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you to achieve life goals. Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage yourself impacts directly on your personal effectiveness. Personal effectiveness Being self-aware, making the most of your strengths, learning new skills and techniques and behavioral flexibility are all keys to improving your personal performance. Personal effectiveness Our personal effectiveness depends on our innate characteristics – talent and experience accumulated in the process of personal development. Talents first are needed to be identified and then developed to be used in a particular subject area (science, literature, sports, politics, etc.). Personal effectiveness Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of cognitive and practical activities. Knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to achieve them and risk assessment. Personal effectiveness Skills also determine whether real actions are performed in accordance with the plan. If the same ability is used many times in the same situation, then it becomes a habit that runs automatically, subconsciously.  Determination It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less important things or spontaneous desires. It may be developed with the help of self-discipline exercise.  Determination self-discipline  Self-confidence It appears in the process of personal development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences. Self confidence is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical condition.  Self-confidence To develop it, you need to learn yourself and your capabilities, gain positive attitude and believe that by performing right actions and achieving right goals you will certainly reach success. Self-confidence  Persistence It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles – problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles. It can also be developed with the help of self discipline exercise. Persistence Miss Universe PH Pia Wurtzbach Failed Three Times Before She Got The Crown.  Managing stress It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of information creates the risk of negative consequences of your actions. It increases efficiency in the actively changing environment. Managing stress  Problem-solving skills They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience. It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining a new experience. Problem-solving skills  Creativity It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use. It can lead to a decrease or an increase of costs, but usually the speed of action is greatly increased when using creative tools. Creativity  Generating ideas It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a mental image of an object formed by the human mind, which can be changed before being implemented in the real world. Generating ideas BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES Most failures emanate from weaknesses that are not recognized or probably recognized but not given appropriate attention or remedy. This could be a weakness in communications, personality or ability.  BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES Instead of giving up or indulging in self-pity, take action. Go for speech lessons, get skills upgrading, attend personality development sessions or whatever appropriate remedies to your perceived weakness. Instead of simply focusing on your weaknesses, recognize your own talents and abilities, build on them, utilize them to your greatest advantage.  BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES This is where you can build your name and popularity. Physically challenged people like Jose Feliciano and other blind singers did not brood over their physical disabilities. They recognize that they have a golden voice so they search for ways to enrich that talent and now they have won international fame in the field of music.