Enhancing Personal Effectiveness Skills
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Christian BehilTopic 2:
Personal
Effective
ness
Portfolio Output No.1 –
Talent/Variety Show Presentation
Originality (4 points),
Your group shall have a creativity/resourcefulness (4
presentation in front of points), teamwork (4 points), and
audience impact (4 points), for a
class. The leaders of maximum of 16 points. Compute
each group (including the average of ratings for your
group and write this average
yours) shall rate your rating for your presentation in
group based on the your journal. Write about your
following criteria: experience as a group
leader/member in this activity
• Directions: Below are
situations that imply weak self-
concept. How would you train
yourself to have a strong self-
concept? Give the right thing
to do in each of the given
situations.
1. Before, you fail to give
affection to your parents.
2. When you are at school, you
always compare yourself to
other people.
3. When you see your best
friend talking with other friends
you succumb to jealousy.
4. When some of your friends
appreciate your work, you
consistently reject compliments.
5. You used to criticize yourself
and others.
6. You indulge yourself in negative
self-talk that manifest pessimism.
7. You persistently suffer from guilt
about what you could, should, or
would’ve done.
8. You usually undermine your own
personal needs in favor of other
people’s needs
9. You are suffering from poor
emotional and physical health.
10. You easily got discourage when
people criticize or comments in
your
undertakings.
HAPPINESS - you will be happier
when you can express who you
are. Expressing your desires will
make it more likely that you get
what you want.
Less inner conflict - when your There are
outside actions are in accordance
with your inside feelings and
Benefits of Self-
values, you will experience less Knowledge.
inner conflict. Some reasons
BETTER DECISION-MAKING - why we should
When you know yourself, you are know our selves
able to make better choices about
everything, from small decisions better are
like which sweater you’ll buy to
big decisions like which partner
you’ll spend your life with. You'll
have guidelines you can apply to
solve life’s varied problems.
Self-control - when you know
yourself, you understand what
motivates you to resist bad habits and
develop good ones. You'll have the
insight to know which values and goals
activate your willpower.
Resistance to social pressure - when
you are grounded in your values and
preferences, you are less likely to say
“yes” when you want to say “no.”
Tolerance and understanding of
others - your awareness of your own
foibles and struggles can help you
empathize with others.
Vitality and pleasure - being who
you truly are helps you feel more alive
and makes your experience of life
richer, larger, and more exciting.
• When you know yourself,
you become more
confident in your choices
and aware of your
strengths and limitations
from an objective
perspective...
• This confidence and
detachment from negative
emotion that comes from
acceptance makes it easier
to deal with life in general,
which carries over into how
you interact with others.
Personal
effectiveness
Your knowledge of yourself and
how you manage yourself impacts
directly on your personal
effectiveness. Being self-aware,
making the most of your
strengths, learning new skills and
techniques and behavioral
flexibility are all keys to improving
your personal performance.
Our personal effectiveness
depends on our innate
characteristics – talent and
experience accumulated in the
process of personal development.
Personal
effectiveness
Talents first are
needed to be
identified and then
developed to be
used in a particular
subject area
(science, literature,
sports, politics, etc.).
Personal
effectiveness
Experience includes
knowledge and
skills that we
acquire in the
process of cognitive
and practical
activities.
Personal
effectiveness
Knowledge is
required for
setting goals,
defining an
action plan to
achieve them
and risk
assessment.
Personal
effectiveness
Skills also determine
whether real actions are
performed in accordance
with the plan. If the same
ability is used many
times in the same
situation, then it becomes
a habit that runs
automatically,
subconsciously.
1.
Determinati
on.
• It allows you to focus
only on achieving a
specific goal without
being distracted by
less important things or
spontaneous desires. It
may be developed with
the help of self-
discipline exercise.
2. Self-
confidence.
• is manifested in speech,
appearance, dressing, gait,
and physical condition. To
develop it, you need to
learn yourself and your
capabilities, gain positive
attitude and believe that
by performing right
actions and achieving
right goals you will
certainly reach success.
• It makes you keep moving
forward regardless of
emerging obstacles –
problems, laziness, bad
emotional state, etc. It
reduces the costs of
overcoming obstacles. It
can also be developed
with the help of self-
discipline exercise.
3. Persistence.
4. Managing
stress.
• It helps combat
stress that arises in
daily life from the
environment and
other people. It
increases efficiency in
the actively changing
environment.
5. Problem-
solving skills.
- help cope with the
problems
encountered with a
lack of experience. It
increases efficiency by
adopting new ways of
achieving goals when
obtaining a new
experience.
6. Creativity.
It allows you to find
extraordinary ways to
carry out a specific
action that no one has
tried to use. It can lead
to a decrease or an
increase of costs, but
usually the speed of action
is greatly increased when
using creative tools.
7. Generating
ideas
• It helps you achieve
goals using new, original,
unconventional ideas.
Idea is a mental image of an
object formed by the human
mind, which can be changed
before being implemented
in the real world. For
generating ideas you can
use a method of mental
maps, which allows you to
materialize, visualize and
scrutinize all your ideas,
which in turn contributes to
the emergence of new
ideas.
Activity: MY BANNER – THE
TREASURE WITHIN ME
WHAT I HAVE
LEARNED
• Directions: Enlightened
with the learning’s you
have in this lesson, write
your insights and
realization about the
importance of knowing
oneself.
ASSESSMENT
Directions: Read each
item carefully. Identify
the key word/s that is
defined in each of the
statement. Choices are
found in the box below.
[Link]’s a skill which allows you to focus only on achieving
a specific goal without being distracted by less
important things or spontaneous desires
[Link] makes you keep moving forward regardless of
emerging obstacles – problems, laziness, bad
emotional state.
[Link] allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a
specific action that no one has tried to use.
[Link] develop this skill, you need to learn yourself and
your capabilities, gain positive attitude and believe
that by performing right actions and achieving right
goals you will certainly reach success.
[Link] increases efficiency by adopting new ways of
achieving goals when obtaining a new experience.
Portfolio Output No. 2:
Journal Reflection from
My Banner
Write about your banner.
1. What do you consider as your
weaknesses, abilities and talents?
2. What are the remedies you will take to
improve or compensate for your weakness?
3. How can you further enrich your assets
and strengths?
4. Where and how do you use it to your
best advantage?