SELF DEVELOPMENT

JONALD E. LOCQUIAO,EdD
 INTRODUCTION
 Personality Development states growth in
personal nat ure, charact er or persona,
progress, make-up.
 Personalit y is t he sum t ot al of
our out er personality and
 inner qualities
An impressive personalit y want s everyone
 tPersonality
o outlive inhelps
thisus to improve - world.
Our versatility.
It helps us to set an objective on the basis of who
we are & what we have.
 Personality should be developed because it’s
helpful for every thing , specifically “The People
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28t h April,2008, My first day at Frankfinn,

I came to the institute as a person
within the
closed doors, wit h cowardly and
diffident nature. When I begin to
understand the
importance of personality development, I started
to percept the strengths and weakness in myself. I
strongly believe in my qualities which I posses and
will work towards confrontation of my
weakness to change it to my strength.
 SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTH: WEAKNESSES:
 Confident Considering
 Understanding
Sympathetic
 Co-operative
 Sincere
Patient

OPPORTUNITIES: THREATS:

 Exposure to different countri es Competition

and people.
 Glamorous and heavily paid. Inflation

 Communication with famous Subject to

 I can confident ly say from t he above
analysis that I am in the path of
gaining strengths
from my weakness also.
FACTORS TO DEtfELOP
PERSONALITY
PERSISTENCE
 During t he assignment I observed t hat t he
old age home Management was
approaching
government for funds from past 5years.
Event hough t hey haven’t got any
posit ive results from the
concerned, they are
continuing the approach with much
confidence

 Through this I realized that I should

EMPATHY : imaginative experiencing

 I observed my friendWasim talking

to an old lady, Ms. Parvat hi, w ho
underst ands and react to the speech
very slowly. By observing that
he asked quest ions & alw ays wait ed for
her answer patiently.

 I realized that by empathizing in situations

wherever required, we can understand people
and it would be a helpful tool for me to
achieve sustained relationships and thereby to
RATIONALITY : logical
thinking

 I observed that my team mate

tfijay had a
 severe leg sprainat the daywe have to
visit t he old age home. As t he v isit is
pre-planned, we couldn’t cancel the visit too,
but he in
 spit e of his pain joined us
by t aking t he decision
logically.

 To be successful in life, some

decisions have t o be taken
 LEARNING &
K NOW LEDGE: Journeys in Personal

 deIvoebol seprmveednta person Mr. Baskaran at the old

age home. He used to readbooks at most
of the time. When I started talking to
him he discussed about almost ev eryt hing
under t he
sky w it h good know ledge and he w as keent o
get the information which he lacksfrom me
t oo. I f ound t he quest in learning and
adding knowledge in him.

 I realized that learning is weapon and

knowledge is power. It is a growing self-
ATTITUDE : Introspective
viewpoint

I met a farmer named Mr. Kesavan at the
old age home, whohas lost almost
everything in
life. He was a successful farmer at
the beginning, but suffered
a great loss in
agricult ure lat er on. He was not ready t o
find a solution for the failure and
blamed the
nature and financial aids from the govt.
for
the same.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:
managing and
guIidoibnsegrveemdoatnioonlds lady named

Mrs.Meenakshi, who have won over t he

 emot
She has lostional
all of int
herelligence.
family in an accident and is
the only survivor of the family. Eventhough she
has all the pain in her mind, she is seen happily
walking around the old age home, becoming the
favorite of all the other residents. She has
overcome t he sadness in life and has
learnt t o view and enjoy the
 life in harmony.
I realized
over on seeingand
their emotions her that
enjoyone can have
theultimate
control of life if you have themindset to
harmony
PERCEPTION :
Int ellect ual
 During the visit
Game I was observing my team
mate Loganath, who is short- tempered by
nature, was involving with the old people in a
modest way. I was shocked on seeing this, as I
know that he will get anger for each and
everything.
 I realized that everyone can alter the
dynamics of perception and convert negative
perceptions to positive perceptions
MOTItfATION :
For
better
performance
 I observed my team member,
Rahul, prompting himself t o
help t he peoplewho is
serving food.
 This act ion of him st imulat ed us

also to help them with serving the

food, which the

 residents too liked it.

 QU ALITIESTO LEAD A
TEAM
Leadership denot es t he abilit y t o lead
people t o attain success. The qualities
required for the
same are :
 Setting objective : Once we got the project
t opic, I underst ood t hat t he object ive of
t he work is to analyze
people.
 Organizing & planning: I with my team
members collect ed det ails of t he old age
homes in Palakkad, selected one
home, received
permission t o visit t he place from
Integrity & Honesty: As far as this
assignment is concerned, I did my work
wit h honesty.
Ent husiasm : I w as fully ent husiast ic t o
meet peopleandspend valuable time
with our
senior citizens.
Ambition : I had an ambition to meet our
senior most cit iz ens, and get t he
experiences from them.
Intelligence : Before the visit to Karunya
t rust , I made me well informed
about t he
Empathy : I understood on talking with the old
people that I should think & react at their level
so as to know more from them.
Human Relations & People skills : This is the
area I personally t hink I should improve a lot .
I was struggling to get with the people
there in
t he old age home, event hough I did bet t er
w it h my team.
Object ivit y : Even I had t o face lot of
st ruggles in getting permission to visit the
Karunya trust
from the authorities concerned, I set my
object ivit y t o visit t he place at any
Technical skills : I did this work with almost
perfect perfect ion, knowing well about my job in
t he team
Communicationskills : As I was mingling with old
people, I need to show more patience. I interacted
wit h t hempolit ely and slowly, list ened t heir
speech and gatheredas much information I can.
Social skills : I was friendly, humble and
honest with the people I interacted
during this work.
I strongly believe that if one understands
the
above 15 qualities in a proper manner, and do the
hard work t o achieve what everqualit ies he lacks
in
 THE PERSON I
OBSERtfED
• Nam : Keshavan
• e : 60yrs
• Age : Farmer
• Occu :
• patio
Two daughters, one Married
married ,
n
one pursuing degree & his
Mari
wife expired last year.
t al

st at u
s
 Mr.Kesavan was so sad when we met him.
He w as t he resident of t he old agehome
since a year. The chairmanof t he
old age home t old that Mr.Kesavan is
a reserved person and he is verymuch
depressed of what has happened to his
life. He was typical farmer who owned acres of
land where he has made every types of crops in
the seasons. He was a happy man with his
family. Every step in his agriculture was
success. He was a socially respected
person.
Gradually the agricultural sector
begin to decline and Kesavan
sufferedint angible
losses in his w ork. He could not
acceptwhat has happened to him, his
wife’s death,
daughters questioning his activities etc.
He
blamed t he nat ure and improper
financial aids from govt. He became a
social nuisance soon .
 From this case study, let us analyze
the fact ors in which Kesavan
has t o improve.
According t omy underst anding, he
should improve his :
 Perception
 Attitude
 Rationality
 Persistence
 Learning & Knowledge
 Motivation
 I strongly believe that the reason for
Mr.Kesavan’s depressed personality is due
to
his lacking of confidence and
mot ivat ion. One another reason is
lack of support from his
familymembers and commonpeople t oo. If
he had got better support from
his family and if
he had consulted with a person who would
have given guidance t o him in his decline,
he would not be in such a
situation now.
 The major t hreat in convert ing his
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TIME MANAGEMENT
As the proverbUNIT:1
states, time and tide waits for
none. So ut iliz at ion of t ime must be done in
t he perfect manner.
The ot her word for t ime
management is punctuality.
Time can be utilized efficiently by:
 Tackling t he t asks: t ackle t he
highly important/urgent tasks
first
 Compiling the required steps to
fulfill the
t asks : set t ing deadlines for t he
complet ionof highly important tasks to
Utilizing the available resources in an
efficient manner, i.e. finding quick
ways t o solve the highlyurgent
tasks with less
personal involvement
Complet ing t he t ask wit hin t he set
t ime period :
the effortless low urgency work can be
done
every week t aking less t ime and complet e
t he work in set period.

If an individual follows the above

TIME MANAGEMENT IN
OU R ACTItfITY
 Time, t he most precious t hing, which w e
never afford to lose. It is important
to manage the
t ime in an efficient way while doing a t ime-
set assignment. We, as a team,
managed thetime
 very
On effect July ively
13, by’08doing twe
he work wit ht o
planned
co-visit
ordination
Karunya andco-
old ageoperation.
home at
Palakkad. We had a strict
t ime limit for each and every work t o be
done there. The pre-planned decisions
were:
Conversat ion wit h chairman t o underst and
about the home for30 minutes
Mingle wit h t he old people t ill
lunch providing lunch at 12
noon
Leave the old age home at 2pm

Obviously what ever planned has been gone

wrong right from the beginning. As we
have a basic
knowledge about Time management ,we changed
t he plan accordingly with time. So we changed
the
decisions as:
reducing t he conversat ion t ime wit h chairman t o
BARRIERS
:
 We reached t he t rust lit t le lat e t han
t he planned time due to high
traffic.
 As medical camp was going on t here, we
lost another half an hour
 Non- cooperat ion of t he resident s at old
age home.
 Delay of organized food due to improper
transportation of food by the catering
people.
Solving t he
issues
 The barriers never dist ract ed us from
our objective. In spite of
inefficient time
utilization, we made time to speak
with the
residents in an effective way.
 As quot ed earlier, all t he t ime allot t ed in
t he pre- planned decisions were
changed
accordingly with the situations
without emot ionally dist ract ing
t he resident s and authority
Efficient time manager in our
team
 I not iced t hat during t he
assignment w ork my teammate
Rahul, managed the time
efficiently:
 He w as punct ual arriving t he t arget ed
place before 15 minutes.
 He was talking politely with the
residents wit hin a t ime- grid & also
made us t o spend the time
likewise.
 He w as t he one who gave an idea t o
Comparison on saving
time
 As I quoted, Rahul was the efficient
time managerin our t eam. I could
have managed time efficiently if:
 I could have been punct ual, reaching t he
place before 10minutes, as I know
the route clearly.
 I could have prepared a questionnaire the
before day it self t o reduce t he t ime in
making it on-time
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:/UNIT
 People skills are essent ial for success
1
in todays competitive
OPEN SELF PERSONALITY :
environment.
intBeing
 erpersonal behaviour
an ‘ open- self personality’ is very
much import ant in service
indust ry, where one have to be
anopen- self.
 To become an ‘open- self’, one must be willing
to change, share the feelings and values with
others
 Firstly, we have to know ourselves, build
strong & positive relationships, value time,&
I strongly believe that I posses most of those
posit ive aspect s t o be an open-self excluding
t he proactive nature.

 I plan to change myself in changing my

introvert nature by socially grooming
with different people, compiling
myself wit h t he
habit s of help, guiding, cont ribut e,
encourage etc. Ihope that I will
be successful in my
effort t o become proact ive soon and I
will become a perfect
 CONCLUSION

 Aft er doing “Self Development ” in t he form

of an assignment I learned more
about my
weakness and strengths .
 DECLARATION
 I hereby declare that the assignment “Self
Development ” isdone according t o t he best
of my knowledge .
THANK
YOU