Personality Development

Personality Development
Personality Development means enhancing and
grooming one’s outer and inner self to bring
about a positive change to your life. Each
individual has a distinct persona that can be
developed, polished and refined.
This process includes boosting one’s confidence,
improving communication and language speaking
abilities, widening ones scope of knowledge,
developing certain hobbies or skills, learning fine
etiquettes and manners, adding style and grace to
the way one looks, talks and walks and overall
imbibing oneself with positivity, liveliness and
peace.
 - an improvement in all spheres of
an individual’s life, be it with
friends, in the office or in any
other environment.

IMPORTANCE:
• Personality development grooms an individual
and helps him make a mark of his/her own
• Personality development goes a long way in
reducing stress and conflicts.
• Personality development helps you develop a
positive attitude in life.
Regean U. Ellorimo
Regean U. Ellorimo
- it’s who we are.
Our personalities
determine how we act
Culture
and react, as well as
Parents Friends
how we interact with
and respond to the Environment
world. Genetics Work
 Personality….
The totality of an
INDIVIDUAL’S attitudes,
interests, behavioral
patterns, emotional
responses, social roles.
Regean U. Ellorimo
 What is personality?
Personality may be defined as the sum total of the
qualities and characteristics of a person as shown in her
manner of walking, talking, dressing, and her attitudes,
interests, and ways of reacting to other people.

It refers to all the factors that influence his characteristic

ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling. It is your image
on others.
- derived from the Latin
word ‘persona’ meaning
‘mask’.
- The relatively stable
feelings, thoughts, and
behavioural patterns a
person has.

If personality is stable, does

this mean that it does not
change?
It does. Changes occur.
 What are the components of personality
• A worker may have a pleasing personality and yet not be
considered for promotion because other aspects of her personality
prove to handicap her work.
• Being pleasing and attractive in appearance is only one aspect of
personality.
• Equally important is a personality that is PLEASING - mature,
capable of making a positive impression, approachable, nice to be
with and can handle difficult people and difficult situations.
✓ Personality is not revealed in one meeting. It
unmasks itself, so to speak, in various ways.
✓ Sometimes, crisis situations reveal the real
personality.
• PICTURES OF PRODUCT ENDORSEMENTS
 Personality Differences
We are all different because of three factors:
1. Heredity 2. environment 3. experiences

1. Heredity- we are born with a set of genes and

chromosomes which we inherit from our forefathers and
our parents. This set the limits to our potential. This
potential is achieved to the fullest by the proper use of
environment.
2. Environment consists of your family, school,
church, social groups, and other groups with
whom we interact from the very beginning. We
behave in certain ways as a result of being with
these groups.
3. Our experiences
These consist of everything that we do or get in
touch with, everywhere we go, in short,
everything that we are exposed to in our lifetime,
whether physical, emotional, or social
experiences.
 Assessment

Why is the study of

personality important?