PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

AREAS OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT receive (and give) feedback. We also learn from
those around us and their experiences.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT – According to
a. Focusing on being a better friend
Maslow, is the basic needs need to be fulfilled in order
b. Studying body language and tone
to reach a person’s fullest potential. In other
c. Improving listening skills
words, to reach self-actualization means we’re
d. Learning a new language
reaching the highest levels of self-awareness, self-
3. SPIRITUAL - Whether a person is religious or not,
confidence, personal growth, and self-realization. That
personal growth and development—can come
is why, when it comes to personal development, it’s
through in spirituality. It’s important to recognize
hard not to bring up Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of
that religion and spirituality are not synonymous.
Needs.
In fact, far from it, spirituality means you’re
5 CATEGORIES investing in a deeper understanding of your own

1. MENTAL - When it talk of personal development, self in the world around you. It helps you get to

it is critical in exercising and staying mentally know yourself and uncover your values. And in

fit. To bring together realities, this comes to life in any form of deliberate and ongoing reflective

a few ways: coaching, learning opportunities, and practice that increases awareness of self, others,

career growth. For example, right now, I’m taking and the systems in which complex social problems

a creative writing training to help keep my mental arise, the spiritual personal development tool can

creative endurance. bring greater awareness to self and change.

- Mental development can be anything from a. Spending some time alone to help you be

workshops, training sessions, or even just comfortable with your own company.

rest. Rest is just as (if not more) important than b. Meditating.

mental exercise. And as your mental fitness c. Spending a few minutes to perform

improves, so does your resiliency, innovation, and gratification.

self-awareness. It is like people living more d. Practice understanding your values and

meaningful, vibrant lives with greater clarity, beliefs.

purpose and passion. 4. EMOTIONAL – It often goes hand-in-hand with

a. Reading more. emotional intelligence. At its simplest emotional

b. Taking therapy. intelligence is the ability to understand feelings.

c. Learn a sport. Beyond feelings, it's understanding how those

d. Learn a new skill, take up an online feelings shape our thoughts and action.

course. - Any number of experiences lends itself to

2. SOCIAL - Social connections and relationships are emotional personal development. And those

also a must-have for any personal experiences can help you in your pursuit of self-

development. After all, self-improvement is not a improvement. Looking back at one’s journey and

solitary pursuit. Humans are social creatures — we identifying the growth, it’s likely you’ve fostered a

need that connection to learn and grow. sense of emotional development along the way.

- And from social connections, we gain important This requires emotional intelligence to understand

skills. Like communication skills, problem- what role your feelings and thoughts played.

solving, relationship-building, and the ability to a. Write down your emotion, journal — it
helps you understand them better.
 b. Talking to your close friend. image based on that view. We've taken on the
c. Taking up therapy. strengths and limitations that influence how we
d. Educating yourself through online behave today. In several areas, we constantly take
platforms. in information and evaluate ourselves, such as
5. PHYSICAL - A healthy body nourishes a healthy physical appearance (How do I look?),
mind. There’s an intrinsic link between your performance (How am I doing?), and relationships
physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This (How important am I?).
aspect of personal development is focused  We identify and own our strengths and potentials
on physical health — like nutrition, sleep, with a good self-image, while remaining honest
exercise, and movement. When your physical self about our liabilities and limitations. We
is nourished, it’s likely your mind is also reaping concentrate on our shortcomings and weaknesses
those benefits. Consider ways you can build this with a negative self-image, distorting the loss and
area of personal development and take note of how imperfections.
your body and your mind feel.  Self-image is important because it influences how
a. Sleeping 7–8 hours every day we think about ourselves and how we
b. Meal prepping communicate with others and the world around us.
c. Minimum 1 hour of physical activity in a A good self-image will improve our well-being
day, which can consist of — walking, physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and
running, playing a sport, etc. spiritually.
d. Healthy eating
Why do we create a good self-image?
POSITIVE SOCIAL IMAGE
Not permanently fixing the self-image. A complex and
SOCIAL IMAGE – It is the personal, or mental, view growing part of our self-image. We will learn to
we have of ourselves. Self-image is a "internal develop a healthier and more accurate view of
dictionary" that describes the self 's characteristics, ourselves, thereby questioning the mirror distortions.
including things such as intelligent, beautiful, ugly, Change of self-image happens over a lifetime. A
talented, selfish and kind. Such features, as we see positive self-image starts with learning to embrace we
them, form a composite reflection of our assets and love one another.
(forces) and liabilities (weaknesses).
SPECIFIC STEPS TO DEVELOP A POSITIVE
How does self-image take shape? SELF-IMAGE.

 Self-image is a Learning product. Influences of  Take a self-image inventory.

early childhood, such as parents and careers, have  Make a list of your positive qualities.
a significant impact on our perception of  Ask significant others to describe your positive
ourselves. They are mirrors which reflect an image qualities.
of ourselves back to us. The encounters with other  Define personal goals and objectives that are
people, including teachers, friends and relatives, reasonable and measurable.
contribute to the mirror image. Relationships
 Confront thinking distortions.
reinforce what we think about ourselves and
 Identify and explore the impact of childhood
believe for ourselves.
labels.
 In the mirror the picture we see can be a true or
 Refrain from comparing yourself to others.
distorted perception of who we really are. We are
 Develop your strengths.
developing either a positive or a negative self-
  Learn to love yourself.
 Give positive affirmations.
PERSONAL GROOMING
 Remember that you are unique.
PERSONAL GROOMING – It has become essential in
 Remember how far you have come.
our daily life. A well-groomed individual stands out
CORPOREAL IMAGE - Body image is a part of an amongst the crowd. Acquire the basic skills to care for
image of oneself. Our body image encompasses more your skin and learn makeup tips to enhance your
than just what we feel like or how we are seen by personal appearance. Make a positive impact on your
others. It also applies to how we perceive, feel and social engagements through proper personal grooming
respond to our own physical attribute’s perception of skills.
our own.
- When we talk of personal grooming, we should

- Cultural representations and the impact of also look upon the totality of ourselves, the way

relatives, peers and others affect the creation of the we talk, the way we walk, the way we sit, and the

body image. A healthy body image tends to many aspects of our personality. Let us watch this

enhance psychological change (less depression, video and learn how to handle our personal

higher self-worth, life satisfaction, less grooming, makeover, and personal hygiene.

interpersonal anxiety, fewer eating disorders).

POSTURE CHECK LIST
Distortions lead to a distorted body image in our
thought. a. Keep your head high.
b. Make sure your head is squarely on your
How do we improve our body image? shoulders.

 There is no fixed body image. Our body c. Keep your head as far as possible from your

experiences change as we grow older, and each shoulders.

stage of our life is associated with markers for the d. Stretch your neck.

body image. Maintaining a healthy view of the e. A pull behind your ears.

body is a cycle lasting for life. f. Hold your chest up in a relaxed manner.

 Changing our body image negatively means more g. Make sure your tummy is up.

than changing our body. It's about changing the h. Relax your knees and flex straight ahead.

way we think, feel, and react to our bodies. i. Relax your feet straight ahead.
j. Always maintain a streamlined look.
SPECIFIC STEPS TO ENHANCE BODY IMAGE.
k. Never show the bulk of your figure.
l. Be natural and be yourself.
 Explore your personal body image with its
strengths and DRESS CODE
limitations.
 Proper grooming and professional appearance are
 Confront thinking distortions related to your body.
important to gain not just a positive impression but
 Challenge misleading assumptions about body
also respect in the workplace. First impressions
appearance.
matter and the way employees look and carry
 Accept and love who you are.
themselves create impact with customers, and
 Be comfortable with your body.
potential clients. Proper grooming and professional
 Have positive experiences with your body.
appearance are important to both men and women.
 Be a friend to your body with positive
affirmations.
 Lack of these may lead to poor image and can This course provides the students with the concepts
interfere with the company brand and reputation. and principles of personality development and includes
 One of the grooming that professionals should discussions on the dimensions of personality and ways
look at is the dress codes which are used to of improving one’s personality to help make the
communicate to employees what the organization student become a world-class professional.
considers appropriate work attire. A dress code or
REASONS FOR DEVELOPING PERSONALITY
appearance policy allows an employer to set
expectations regarding the image it wants the  To gain self-awareness.
company to convey. Dress codes can be formal or  To be socially accepted/ for social
informal and might include the use of uniforms. effectiveness.
 To improve/gain self-confidence.
SOME OF THE IMPORTANT ASPECT OF GOOD
 To keep ourselves on the job.
GROOMING FOR THE RIGHT DRESS AND
WARDROBE MANAGEMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS: DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY

 Appropriate Dress Code 1. NATURE / HEREDITY - Biological

 How To Dress for Success factors such as age, sex, race, height, weight,
 Fashion Sense for Ladies and built as genes were transmitted by

 Evaluate Your Lifestyle parents to offspring. There are controversies

 Start Basic Clothes and Keep It Simple as to whether intelligence and aptitude are also
inherited.
 How To Wear Your Uniform with Grace, Dignity
& Success
2. NURTURE / ENVIRONMENT – It Consists
PERSONALITY AND PERSONALITY TOWARDS of a group of individuals, institutions, and
WORK surroundings with whom the person interacts
with from childhood to adulthood. From them,
According to Harold C. Conklin, personality is a fairly
an individual may acquire sets of beliefs,
stable configuration, feelings, attitudes, ideas, and
ideas, values, attitudes, and other social-
behavior that characterized the individual, making him
cultural characteristics through the process of
unique and different from others.
socialization.
According to Gordon William Port, personality is the 3. EXPERIENCES
collection of traits that determine the individual’s a. Openness to experience is a measure of depth,
adjustment to his environment. Each individual is breadth, and variability in a person’s
made up of determining tendencies that play an active imagination and urge for experience.
role in his behavior. Personality is what lies behind the b. Relate to the intellect, openness to new ideas,
specific acts of a person. cultural interest, educational aptitude, and

According to Alfred Adler, personality is that creativity as well as varied sensory and

each individual has a unique configuration of motives, cognitive experiences.

traits, values, and interest. Every act performed by the c. HIGH OPENNESS – Broad interest, liberal

person bears the stamp of his own distinctive style. mind and like a novelty
d. LOW OPENNESS – Conventional,
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT - It is geared conservative, prefer familiarity.
towards the development of an organized pattern of 4. VOLITION / MOTIVATION
behavior and attitude that make a person distinctive.
 a. The freedom of choice and to make this PERSONALITY - Broadly speaking, we can
choice to implicate change. understand personality as the pattern of thoughts,
b. When we made up our mind, it is feelings, and behaviors which make each individual
called eminent volition. unique. Simply put, it's all the features that make you
c. When we put forth any particular act of who you are – your attitude, personality and nature.
choice, it is called executive or imperative
Some people claim that in fact, personality is innate or
volition.
hereditary, and therefore remains constant throughout
d. When one imperative choice governs series of
their lives. Some believe in a complex mechanism in
actions, it is called predominant volition.
which personality changes because of external factors
such as our experiences in life, climate, and culture.
STEPS IN PERSONALITY IMPROVEMENT

 Realize that improvement is needed. 4 PERSONALITY PERSPECTIVES

 Have a strong desire to improve.
1. PSYCHOANALYTIC / PSYCHODYNAMIC -
 Make a checklist or inventory of weakness and Sigmund Freud claimed that personality consists
strong points. of 3 components. Then Id is the strength of our
 Have a step-by-step plan for improvement. impulses. He is responsible for all our needs
 Put your plans into actions. (nutrition, appreciation) and desires (sexual
impulse, hate, lust, envy). According to Freud, the
THE JOHARI WINDOW
Id seeks our needs instantly to be fulfilled without
- It was created by Joe Luft and Harry Ingham any regard to logic or morality. It is impulsive,
who were both researchers at The University demanding, reckless, unreasonable, antisocial,
of California. They theorize that personality selfish, and lust-oriented-our primary instinct.
can be expressed as windows that offer a way
- The superego, or conscience, reflects both morality
of looking into an individual's personality.
and social norms. It includes all the values individual
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PERSONALITY aims for and makes us feel bad if we fall short of those
WINDOWS expectations. The superego is basically the ideal norm-

1. OPEN / PUBLIC WINDOW the person we want to be. Whereas the I d seeks

- Things that are known to self and to gratification, and the superego aims for perfection, the

others. ego works to balance both. It operates on the basis of

- The self that we choose to reveal to truth, mediating the conflicting demands of the Id and

others. the superego, and choosing the most practical long-

2. HIDDEN WINDOW – It contains things that term solution.

others don’t know, and this is kept to us. THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND AND
3. BLIND WINDOW - Things that others see in PSYCHOANALYSIS
us and that the self is unaware of.
Freud also emphasized the significance of early
4. DARK / UNKNOWN WINDOW - Things that
childhood experiences to personality development. He
nobody knows yet or the areas that are
believed that the study of past harms could unlock a
unexplored.
person's future growth. The harms, believed Freud,
CORPORATE THEORIES ON PERSONALITY were induced mainly during the childhood of the
DEVELOPMENT individual by parents. Freud's opinions do not meet
with full approval, and many critics have challenged
his work's scientific foundation. It remains, however, a actualization. Self-actualization is the process of
pillar of modern psychoanalysis, where people fall rising and evolving to achieve your true potential.
back or go deeper into their unconscious personality to That's a central motivator in human actions,
overcome the problems they face. Maslow said.

- The humanistic viewpoint emphasized the value of

2. TRAIT THEORY OF PERSONALITY -
using free will to be the best human being a person
Openness, or open-mindedness, and how much
could possibly be. To assume that people are
you enjoy trying new stuff.
intrinsically good is distinct from the other theories.
- Awareness, or how effective, organized, and attentive People are always looking for new ways to change,
you are. learn, and develop, the humanists argue, and it is these

- Extroversion (which in personality psychology is choices that decide our personality and behavior.

pronounced with a "a"), or how you derive energy 4. SOCIAL COGNITION THEORY – It views
from contact with others. Those who score low on personality through the prism of our social
extroversion (introverts) get motivation from inside. experiences, so our personality traits interact with
Individuals draw energy from the extroverts. They our environment to affect behavior instead of
seem to be assertive, and they have the gab gift. evolving in a black box. This provides a far deeper

- Compassion, or how amiable, patient and insight into the influence other people have on our

compassionate you are. personalities. The founder of the theory of social

cognition is a scholar called Albert Bandura. He
- Neuroticism refers to an emotional disorder and the
claimed that when people see someone take
intensity of a person's negative emotions. People with
advantage of a certain action, they will mimic that
strong neuroticism tendencies appear to be moody and
action to receive a similar reward. His successful
nervous.
experiment saw a boy being punished for
3. HUMANISTIC VIEWS ON PERSONALITY - puncturing a doll with a knife. When the video was
Abraham Maslow is the principal leader of the shown to other children, they behaved in a
humanist movement. Maslow believed that similarly violent manner to receive a reward.
personality was not about biology or diet but about
SOCIAL THEIRY AND RECIPROCAL
personal preference. In particular, he indicated that
DETERMINISM
people possess free will and are driven to do the
things that will help them fulfill their full human The theory of social cognition has much popularity in

potential. Maslow also built a hierarchy of needs public health circles where it is used to describe how

usually seen as a pyramid. The pyramid's bottom previous interactions in the present can establish and

tier is composed of the most basic needs: food, reinforce actions. For example, a child growing up in

water, sleep, and shelter. Such desires are so an abusive home can themselves model bullying and

critical that people act before doing something else violent behavior. This child can also anticipate more

to fulfill them. When those needs are met, people violence because that is all he has learned. Bandura

will pass through the other pyramid steps, named this the reciprocal determinism concept – the

fulfilling the needs of stability, belonging, and self- theory that characteristics, environment, and behavior

esteem before they hit the final level: self- all interact and affect one another.