CHAPTER

CONCEPT OF PESONAL DEVELOPMENT

AND ETHICS
 Personal Development

 A notion of enhancement of ones capabilities and

potentials. It implies a forward movement from a
given position to a position of greater achievement,
opportunity and benefits.

 Good knowledge people will follow and adopt

ethical legal ways..

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 Core Concepts of Personal
Development

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 Intrapersonal Skills

 Sets of abilities that someone possesses in knowing

understanding ad managing his own emotions and
mind
 These skills are develop through continuous learning
and training.

Intrapersonal means communicating with one's self.

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 Intrapersonal Skills

 Attitude and Self –concept

 Motivation and perseverance
 Self Management

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 Interpersonal Skills

 Interpersonal skills, which refer to interactions with

other people or personalities.
 The skills include the areas of communication,
listening, delegation of tasks and leadership.

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 Professionalism

 Professionals - Been described as individual with a high

degree of knowledge or skill in a particular field.

 Professionalism – competence or skill expected of a

professional.

 Importance of having professionals – they follow a code

of conduct and they are courteous as well as
conscientious.

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  High demanded competences today:
– The ability to think

 WHY?
Thinking allows a person to match knowledge and
experience synergistically producing innovative
solutions to common problems.

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 Ethics and Sustainability

 a moral principle or set of moral values held by

an individual or group
 The branch of philosophy that deals with
morality. Ethics is concerned with distinguishing
between good and evil in the world, between
right and wrong human actions, and between
virtuous and no virtuous characteristics of
people.

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 Summary of Core Concept

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 Influential people as role
model

 Prophet Muhammad
 Isaac Newton
 Jesus Christ
 Gautama Buddha
 Confucius

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 Superior Qualities of Role
Model

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 Different Perspective of PD

 Islam and Christianity – a mean of serving God.

 Psychology – to fulfil one’s potential to self
actualize
 Hinduism
 Buddhism

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 Developing Goals ( pg 27)

We begin by making habits and end by habit

making us.

Underperformers - they do not know what they

are trying to accomplish. ( no direction, no goal)
Peak performers or the self-actualizers – have
meaning in lives and perform their best
possibilities both physical and cognitive.

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 GOALS

 On the job goals

 Personal Development Goals
– SMART goals

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 Developing a Goal
Programme
Zig Ziglar’s Goal Setting Formula (7 steps)

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 THE END

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