Understanding the

Importance of
Personal Effectiveness
in the Workplace
Developing Personal
Effectiveness in the Workplace
Learning Objectives:
● Define personal effectiveness

● Discuss the importance of personal effectiveness in the

workplace

● Describe each of the skills for personal effectiveness

● State ways on counteracting the barriers to personal

effectiveness

● Give one’s own definition of personal effectiveness

● Explain the importance of planning and goal setting to personal

effectiveness
Guide To improved your Professional and Personal Potential
 Definitions
Personal
Belonging to or affecting a particular
person rather than anyone else
Effectiveness
Success in producing a desired or
intended result.
Oxford Dictionary of English. 2nd ed. 2003
 What is Personal Effectiveness?

Personal Effectiveness means

making the most of all your
personal resources at our
disposal – our personal talents,
energy & time to what is
important to us

Source: What is Personal Effectiveness? | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)

What is Personal Effectiveness?
In a work context…

Personal Effectiveness is often

conceived as a set of
competence, capabilities or
qualities

Boyatzis, R.E. The Competent Manager: A Model

for Effective Performance. Wiley, 1982
3 Key things to consider for
Personal Effectiveness
Take initiatives

Have self-control

Check your
personal
improvements
Importance of Personal Effectiveness in
the workplace
Sharpening your
Happy customer
saw
Productivity vs
Ability to detect any
personal care balance anomaly and checkmate it
- Spend some time for the
family before it is too late
- Take a walk for awhile and
refresh
- Eat good food More coordinated
- Get more sleep workplace
- Time to look up for our self
 SKILLS FOR PERSONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
DETERMINATION
Allows you to focus only
on achieving a specific
goal without being
distracted
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 SELF-CONFIDENCE
Learn yourself and your
capabilities, gain positive
attitude and believe that by
performing right actions and
achieving right goals, you will
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 PERSISTENCE
Makes you keep moving
forward regardless of emerging
obstables, it reduces the costs
of overcoming obstacles
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 MANAGING STRESS
Helps combat stress that arises
in daily life from the
environment and other people.
It increases efficiency in
actively changing environment.
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 PROBLEM-SOLVING
Help cope SKILLS
with the problems
encountered with a lack of
experience. Increases efficiency by
adopting new ways of achieving
goals when obtaining new
experience
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 CREATIVITY
Allows you to find extraordinary
ways to carry out a specific
action that no one has tried to
use
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 GENERATING IDEAS
Helps you achieve goals using new,
original, unconventional ideas. You can
use a method of method maps, which
allows you to materialize, visualize and
scrutinize all your ideas, which in turn
contributes to the emergence of new
ideas.
Source: 7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills (dcmlearning.ie)
 EMOTIONAL
Being able to identify, understand and
INTELLIGENCE
mangae the emotions that you are
feeling makes you a more realiable
worker, helps you to realistically plan
what you can get done, and also
makes it easier to deal with sudden
changes in any plans or issures that
crop up
Source: What is Personal Effectiveness? | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)
What are the ways on Counteracting the Barriers to
Personal Effectiveness?

Self Commit to change

Discipline
Take responsibility
Will power for ones destiny

Building habits Time Management

What Does Personal Effectiveness mean to you?
Getting my work done to high quality standards

Taking care of my family and making them

happy

Career advancement

Influencing people
Making and keeping new friends
Eearning a lot of money
Earning the respect of my colleagues
Becoming an expert in my field or something
What is Goal Setting?
 Goal & Goal Setting -
Definition
GOAL: Point marking end or race; object of effort or ambition,
destination etc.

GOAL SETTING: it is the process of deciding what you want

to accomplish and devising a plan to achieve the result you
desire
Why Most People Don’t Set Goals?

Fear of
Failure
Pessimist Lack of
Attitude A lack of Ambition
Knowledge
Ignorance
About Goal
of the Setting Fear of
importance Rejection
of goals
Low Self
Esteem
Why Goals Fail?
Not Written No
Down Rewards

Not Keeps
Realistic Changing

No No
Accountability Timelines
Why Set Goals?
You take control of your life

You focus on the important things

You will make good decisions

You can finish the task efficiently

You will be self confident

You are closer to progress and success

 Types of Goals

Long-Term Goals
Mile stone Goals

Medium-Term Goals
Intermediate Goals

Short-Term Goals
Mini Goals
 STEPS FOR GOAL
SETTING
Goal Setting is a two part process

Deciding what you want to do

Work at accomplishing whatever goal
you have set for yourself
 SETTING UP
GOALS
Set Goals that Keep your Goals
Motivate You SMARTS

Set Goals in Make an Action Plan

Writing
Stick With It! Read it
everyday
IDENTIFY YOUR
GOALS
 GOAL STATEMENT
3 Questions

What do Why do How will

you want to you want to you
achieve? achieve it achieve it?
 Setting SMART Goals
If goals aren’t reachable, they aren’t worth making. All you have to do to set
realistic goals is follow the SMART goals guidelines
 Specific
Specific goals answer the following questions:

Who? When?

What? Why?
Where?
 Measurable
To determine if your goal is measurable, ask
questions such as:

How will I know when it

How much? How many? is accomplished?
 Attainable
 The goal is Do-able
 It must be action
oriented
 Must be “within
reach”
 Realistic
 Goal should be real and relevant to current situation
• People must believe it is realistic
 Time Bound
 You should establish a time frame
 Time frame must be realistic
 Everyone must be aware about the time
frame… make it public
 la y
s P
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 Specific,
a c t ! realistic
F goals work
best
 It takes time for a

a c t ! change to
F become an
established habit
 a c t ! Repeating a goal
F makes it stick
 Pleasing other
a c t!
F people doesn’t
always work
 a c t Roadblocks
F doesn’t always
mean failure
 Quotations to Motivate
Without goals and a plan to reach them, you are like a
ship the has set Sail, with no destination
If you can dream it… you can do it
Your goals are your roadmaps, that guide you and show
you what is possible
A dream is just a dream, but a goal is a dream with a
plan and a deadline
 Designing Own’s Goal on Personal Effectiveness
My Target Date
Activities to Actual Date of
Developmental Priorities for Achieving Review Date
be Undertaken Achievement
Goals Goals

Source: Personal effectiveness in the workplace.net

 “ Most of us spend too
much time on what is
urgent and not enough time
on what is important” –
Stephen Covey