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Index
• Personality definition
• Traits
• Good personality
• Personality development
• Hurdles in development
• Good manager
• Organisation culture

Making earth little softer

• Who are you?
• How well do you know yourself?
• What are you good at?
• What are your weaknesses, fears,
innermost strengths and desires?
• What you want to be?
• Where are you headed?


Its YOU
Don't compare yourself
with any one in this world.

If you compare, you are insulting
yourself. You are unique personality!

Personality is
• A prediction what a person will do in a
particular situation
• The way an individual reacts & interacts
with others
• A individual’s distinct patterns of
thought, feeling, motives and behavior


Personality :- Character or behavior of a
person in different scenarios
How character builds up?
• Scenario (inputs)
• Thoughts (process) – mostly consistent
• Actions (output)
• Behavior (impression)
Hereditary, upbringing, education &
environment build the personality

Personality

Thoughts Emotions

PERSONALITY

Behavior


Attributes
• Personality includes aspects :
Motivation, Perception, Thought
process, Emotions, Feeling, Reaction,
Attitude, Value
• Various traits lead to a consistent way of
behaviour like Introversion, Intelligence,
Anxiety, Assertiveness, Aggressiveness,
Prejudice, Musical aptitude, Honesty,
Sensitivity, Seriousness & Friendliness
• Positive Personality helps growing
career. Good to aim, identify & improve.

Types
Traits or characteristic is revealed
consistently in a variety of situations
Positive attitude have certain traits like
• A pleasing personality
• Caring ,confident, patience, and humble
• High expectations (?)
• Anticipating positive outcome
Negative attitude have traits such as
bitterness, resentment, unhappy anger,
purposeless life, ill-health, prejudice, etc

Competency of Self-Worth
Following domains of competency considered in
Adult evaluation of self worth (Harter)
# Domain # Domain
1 Intelligence 7 Sociability
2 Sense of humor 8 Adequacy
3 Job competence 9 Nurturance
4 Morality 10 Athletic ability
5 Physical 11 Household
appearance management
6 Intimacy

Physical aspects
Delivery & Speed Pitch
Communication skills Articulation
Asking questions To enhance vocabulary
Listening Syllable / Stress
Building rapport Vowels & sounds
Verbal attributes Group discussion
Pronunciation Public speaking
Tone Debates

To acquire & improve each of above skills, one
has to take planned & intense efforts

Trait dimensions
Dimension Positive Points Negative Points
Extroversion Talkative , Frank Silent, Secretive
Sociable Reclusive
Agreeableness Mild, Gentle, Good- Headstrong
natured, Not jealous Irritable, Jealous
Conscience Choosy, Responsible, Careless.
Honest, Careful, Undependable
Hardworking) Dishonest, crook
Emotional Poised, Composed Nervous, Excitable
stability Calm Anxious
Culture Polished, Imaginative Crude, Simple
Artistically, Sensitive Artistically, Insensitive


Surface traits

Positive Points Negative Points
Sociability Independence
Sentimentalism Hostility
Responsive Aloof
Affectionate Cold
Sentimental Unsentimental
Social interest Lacking family
interest
Dependent Independent


Type of personalities

Directness

Structure Personality Extroversion

Pace


Directness
• Act proactively
• Naturally self confident, high ego people
• Hard-driving and decisive
• Candid (frank, open, outspoken, honest,
blunt, straight, authoritative)
• Interested in results than people
• Attack things aggressively
• Don’t realize how strongly they communicate
• Hate anyone looking over their shoulder
• Good Trouble shooters
• Thrive on solving problems

Extroversion
• Are enthusiastic and pleasant
• Are versatile, Naturally optimistic (Positive)
• Like to build organization
• Get things accomplished through people
• Like team work, will involve people
• Like group discussions
• Encourage participative decision-making
• Persuasive
• Constantly selling themselves
• Concerned with how others respond to them
• Like to be noticed by others

Pace
• Persistent and Co-operative
• Love peace and harmony
• Dependable and reliable
• Good Planners, Good listeners
• Do-not like to be rushed at the last minute
• Interested in making every move count
• Have good memory
• Time Schedule & deadline are important
• Organize time to get work done on schedule
• Warm and friendly and make great friends
• Approach things in a methodical way

Structure
• Hate to make mistakes
• Well organized
• Will double check themselves and others
• Are very loyal in their circle
• Have eye for details
• Good at developing systems
• Meticulous, Careful, Fussy & Selective


Profiles
Characters Characters
Outgoing Reserved Suspicious Trusting
More intelligent Less intelligent Imaginative Practical
Dominant Submissive Shrewd Fortnight
Happy –go-lucky Serious Apprehensive Self-assured
Venturesome Timid(shy) Experimental Conservative
Sensitive Tough-minded Self-sufficient Dependent
Emotionally Affected by Controlled Uncontrolled
stable feelings Tense Relaxed
Conscientious Expedient
(careful) (measure)


What is maturity?


Character & Personality


Cognitive Social-Learning
Personality emerges from the mutual
interactions of individuals, their thought
process, actions, and their environments.

Environment Person Behavior


Social-Cognitive Perspective

Behavior learned through
upbringing & observation

Thought process of
situation affects behavior

Interaction with
individuals & Intellect


Reciprocal Determinism

Personal/
Cognitive
Factors

Behavior

Environment
Factors

Internal World + External World = We

Social Cognition?
How children process information about
their social worlds?
- Social cognition might be mediating link
between children's socialization
experiences and their social behavior.

Social Social
Socialization
Cognition Behavior


Learned helplessness
Perceived Generalized
Uncontrollable
lack of helpless
bad events
control behavior

Conflict Parents
Friends
Teachers
Employers

processes of expectations
maturation of society


Humanistic Approach

A state of flow arises when engaging in
activities demanding skills and challenges

Know yourself


Trait Approach
MMPI Score Profile Showing Clinical Scales


Trait Approach
Personality Consistency across Lifespan-Least
stable during childhood & increases with age.


Idea & Real
Anxiety due to gap
between ideal & real.
Reason may be
•Circumstances
•Unable to take a
stand
•Ignorance
•Purposely


Adulthood
Social & personality
development in
adulthood involves
self analysis &
identity issues in
various roles


Friendship
Maintaining relationships with friends is an
important part of adult life
• Need for belongingness
• Sharing (Good & bad events of life)
• Supporting during good & bad times
• How do we choose our friends?
• Like minded
• Proximity (accessibility)
• Similarity (values, attitudes, ethnicity, etc.)
• Personal qualities (trustworthy, loyal, warm,
supportive, honest, funny, etc.)

Purpose of existence
• Some people work out of EXTRINSIC
MOTIVATION, that drives people to obtain
tangible rewards, such as money or prestige
or recognition.
• Some people work out of INTRINSIC
MOTIVATION, that causes people to work for
their own enjoyment, not for the rewards
work may bring.


Personality Traits
• Particular tendencies to feel, think, and
act in certain ways describe the
personality of every individual
• Manager’s personalities influence their
behavior and approach towards
managing people and resources


Big Five Personality Traits
Managers personality can best be described
using following points characterise!


Solution
No one will manufacture a
lock without a key.

Similarly God won't give
problems without solutions.

Personality Development
Healthy Mind and a Healthy Body


Good Personality
Attributes of a good personality?
• Good physique, light mood, smiling
face, alert & conscious
• Pleasing manners & etiquettes
• Well educated & sharp thinking
• Personal and Professional integrity
• Trustworthiness and reliability
• Successful career
• Loving & caring


Healthy Body


Human factors


Healthy Body
• Nutrition – No junk food
• Personal Hygiene
• Disciplining of daily routines
• Control of Mind
• Exercising
•Traditional methods (Yoga, Pranayam)
•Modern methods (Gym, aerobics, etc.)
•Walking and jogging


When is mind unhealthy?
• Agitated mind is unhealthy
• What agitates human mind?
• Not getting what one desires
• Getting what one dislikes
• Uncontrolled emotions in the mind
• Continuous accumulation of such likes and
dislikes stresses the mind out.
• Stress agitates the mind
• Stressed mind is unhealthy
• Learn to keep it cool however serious
• Stories about past & future

When is mind unhealthy?
Get what you
do not like

Do not get
Agitation
what you want

Desperation
Build stress
Try & Fail


Behave
Be bold when you loose
and be calm when you win.

Heated gold becomes ornament.
Beaten copper becomes wires.
Depleted stone becomes statue.
More experience makes you sharper

Healthy Mind
• Stress-free mind is healthy and calm
• Calm mind helps to control the situation well
• De-stressing the mind is needed:

How?
• Meditate & be happy
• Hold no grudges, it harms you more
• Forgive & forget
• Prevent accumulating day-to-day complexes
• Clean the slate - Stored complexes


Cultivating a Healthy Mind
• Do not react
• Observe no reaction
• Continuous self awareness &
introspection
Removing of accumulated complexes:
• Path of service
• Intellectual self analysis (keep it simple)
• Path of devotion
• Path of meditation


Looking in mirror
• Give few minute end of everyday
• Keep cool & concentrate
• Introspect yourself, run a day story
• Clean the heart & brain
• Be honest to yourself
• Control the mind & situation
• Understand others point of view
• Forgive & forget, Give up the grudges
• Understand it hurts & pains you more
• Release the stress & be in light mood
• Be happy

Change yourself
Changing Face might change nothing.
But Facing the Change can

Don't complain about others;
Change yourself to see a change

Successful story
Every successful person
has a painful story.

Every painful story has
a successful ending.

Accept the pain and
get ready for success


Start fresh
No one can go back and
change a bad beginning;

But anyone can start now and
create a successful ending.

Analyse problem
If a problem can be solved,
no need to worry about it.

If a problem cannot be solved
what is use of worrying?

Item Description
Deep faith Determination to keep commitment;
towards work Come what may attitude!
Positive Positive & optimistic thinking
personality Cultivating positive believes in others
Effective Precise to the points ; Set context, &
communication sharing the thoughts & convince
Time Managing time well, Work & life
management balance; Effective delegation
Problem Understanding problem, analyzing,
solving solutioning; & selecting right resource


Item Description
Team Spirit Working with heterogeneous team
members, be a leader, not just a follower
Self Ability to express and asking questions
confidence without fear
Learn ability Always learning new skills
Flexibility Guts to revisit the own views & thoughts,
revising as per the situation;
Accommodating & aligning
Stability Keeping up the performance & efficiency
even under stress, keeping head cool!

Item Description
Confidence Demonstrate rich self confidence
Decision Precise decision making after data
making collection and analysis, know people well
Sense of Demonstrate sense of humor even while
humor managing tough situation, learn to smile
Accepting Large hearted, ready to introspect, accept
criticism criticism & work on it non- politically
Not to worry Worries would not solve the problem,
control the situation, mind & brain
Language Be master of at least 3 languages

Know your mistakes
Easy is to judge the mistakes of others.
Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes.

It is easier to protect your feet with slippers
than to cover the earth with carpet.

Hurdles in planning
Item Description
Laziness Inertia before starting, Need change in
attitude; Can be overcome by practicing
Incomplete how many activities to complete the tasks/
information project? Incomplete information delays the
activity & impacts the plan
Lack of self In-ability & difficulty in planning &
confidence execution; in-ability of coordinating
activities; Imagine the activities and
mitigate the risks in advance
Over Prefer actions to planning; it invites risks
confidence Leads to failure if not experienced


Hurdles in planning
Item Description
Mentality Planning is waste of time leads heroic
approach results more efforts & duration
Delay in Right decision at the right time helps to
Decision project & stake holders
making Delay in decision making & not sharing
the decisions impacts project
Commitment Inability to commit due to lack of
confidence or fear of being committed
Beating Sharing exaggerated information & wrong
drums updates lead to planning failure


Experience
Mistakes are painful when they happen.

But year's later collection of mistakes is
called experience, which leads to success.

Life
Life laughs at you when
you are unhappy...

Life smiles at you when
you are happy...
Life salutes you when
you make others happy...

Thank You


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