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Fourteen Key Personal Development Skills
Author: Gen Wright
1. Continuous Learning: Take responsibility for your own lifelong personal development, knowing that it?s the secret to success in all areas of life, and your most valuable asset. Your knowledge and experience is personal wealth you can never lose.
2. Positivity: Find the positive aspect in everything, accepting what cannot be changed, and acting on what can, towards a positive result. Don?t let circumstances drive your state of being, let your state of being drive your results. Smile and use humor to help drive a positive attitude and share it with others.
3. Personal Excellence: Strive to do your best in everything you do. If it?s worth doing, it?s worth doing well. Not only to achieve superior results, but so that if you fail you can remain positive rather than wishing you had tried harder. Look to be creative in your personal excellence rather than follow the safest, lowest risk path.
4. Honesty: Maintain honesty and integrity in all that you do. Trust and respect by others is hard earned, yet can be permanently lost over the smallest lie. Decide that honesty is one of your core values, and stick to it at all costs.
5. Know Yourself: You are a unique individual with your own strengths and weaknesses, all others have these also. The difference with a successful person is they have learned to leverage their strengths, and to identify their weaknesses so they can improve those areas through learning and practice. Accept yourself as you are without comparison to others, if you look you will find much about yourself to be proud of and thankful for.
6. Appreciate the Moment: Seek happiness in the present moment, even in the simple things around you such as nature, a good conversation, or a good meal. Excessive contemplation on the past or future steals this appreciation from you. Some techniques to support this is getting out in nature, and meditation.
7. Communicate Well: Learning to communicate well with others is an essential skill, which includes speaking, writing, listening well, and body language. Nearly everyone can still find areas to grow with these skills, and should receive constant attention. Becoming a good listener is one of the top areas of improvement you should seek, become truly interested in other people and it will work wonders.
8. Embrace Mistakes: Mistakes are a prerequisite to personal development; you must choose either courage and success, or safety and being average. Mistakes are a learning opportunity so long as you are not repeating your mistakes, if you have learned from a failure then pat yourself on the back. Carry this to other?s mistakes also, forgive them with this understanding in mind.
9. Embrace Change: Change is a constant part of life, and integral to personal development and success. Become excited about change, and look to it with a positive attitude. Be a leader by being the initiator of positive change. If you fear change, then you fear personal development, as self improvement is about changing yourself.
10. Increase Your Value: Know that personal development is not a selfish activity; rather it increases your value to others, ranging from relationships, business, and career. Too many people focus on changing others, which rarely works as well as changing yourself. Make a difference externally by changing yourself internally.
11. Be Giving: Seek to be giving, compassionate, loving, yet humble, knowing you receive what you give out. This is a secret to finding happiness in life.
12. Balance: Seek balance in all areas of life, considering family, relationships, career, business, health, leisure, and spirituality.
13. Gratitude: Be thankful for the gift and opportunity of life. If you have a spiritual belief, pursue the core tenets of the teachings and make them part of who you are.
14. Find Your Excitement: Find things in life that excite you, and act on them. Embracing things which excite and motivate you will move you more quickly into success and happiness, and attract the things you need to get there. This attitude will support and integrate with all the above tenets.
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What is the best way to avoid participation in the personal development courses employers send you on?
I can’t stand these god damn courses. My employer regularly sends employees on personal deveopment courses (soft skills, communication, interpersonal etc.) I’m on a graduate programme so there is no way I can get out of attending them. But I just can’t get involved in a bunch of people in suits doing dumb activities and “teambuilding” etc. I’m perfectly capable of communicating effectively on the job. But I’m also an introvert and consequently find it difficult to get involved in these courses as they are not ‘real-life’.
Plus alot of people I work with are a bunch of toffs who live off daddy’s money.
What’s the best way not to get noticed in these activities. My main goal is to avoid being the ‘group spokesperson’.
Remain yourself in the midst of it all.
If you are an introvert and by that i mean one who prefers to observe and think, (rather than any of the usual negative conotations) just do that.
Speak only when you feel like it and to whom you feel it necessary.
Advocate as you will , not as it would be seemly, ask for reason not ballyhoo and allow no unreason. Querie reasons for why you are doing what you are doing if its not apparent, you are a rational individual, team building is too unspecific to be an explanation, “exactly HOW will filling my trousers with custard make me a better team member ? i just need to know so i can engage better ”
Focus on delegation in the group, flatter those who will be flattered into being spokes person.
Accept that teams are things of diverse talents and aspects (not bonded yes men, sorry, ” persons”) and occupy your “peculiar” position brilliantly.
As for the toffs, dont let them bother you, you could be their boss one day, eyes on the prize baby, eyes on the prize.
What skills or personal capabilities contribute most to positive social development.?
I would say it’s important to have compassion and be able to see things from another persons point of view.
Being a good listener is another biggie.
ideas of how to draw a personal development plan to develop teamwork skill in 3 months?
learning objective ,goal,activity,how to evaluate
cant think of anything-maybe you could find a managment skills site that would give you some ideas because it might depend on the type of job ??
Do you think it is benefical for a professional astrologer and psychic expert to have personal development..?
..and counselling skills combined if they are providing a personal reading and session for the person seeking what is revealed to them? (Yes or No)
Please can you give reasons for why you picked either Yes or No.
AND IF POSSIBLE…
What is your star sign and other signs i.e. moon and rising ?
Excellent question and point
These days erecting a chart is one thing (simplest by far)…delineating another…interpretation – again another skill. If you stop here you can use this for your own personal development. In fact this is the first thing they teach you – look at your own chart first.
But to sit with another person adds another dynamic and skill. Those that do not do this well – can cause damage or harm to others unknowlingly. Professional astrologers have a code of ethics – one example is NCGR’s (take a look at theirs).
They also offer degrees PhD – in Psychological Astrology now. Very different perspective. Best to really get the core basics down first, Liz Greene has a great series of reads on this subject. (But if you are not a “real” Astrologer – the terminology will boggle your brian – LOL)
Also important to study the history behind Astrology – keep in mind that there was a time physician’s were required to be Astrologer’s too. Science at one time was considered “hocus pocus” too.
Personal development plan (pdp)?
I have been asked to complete a personal development plan with skills and weaknesses.
What could a strength be for academic referencing? and what could a weakness be for critical analysis and writing?
Any help wouuld be much appreciated,
Thanks,
Ben
I agree be truthful and maybe you don’t have to include a strength and weakness for each area. If you choose not to include a strength and weakness for each area be sure to balance out the strengths and weaknesses because if you leave out all your weaknesses it will look cocky.
Hope this helps
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