LESSON 2: PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3 | SUBJECT: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal Effectiveness
o It means making use of all the personal resources (talents, skills, energy, and time) to enable you to
achieve life goals.
o One’s knowledge of oneself and how one manages itself impacts directly on one personal
effectiveness.
o One personal effectiveness depends on one innate characteristics such as talent and experiences
accumulated in the process of personal development.
o The following are keys to improve one personal performance:
 Being self-aware
 Making most of one strengths
 Learning new skills and techniques
 Behavioral flexibility
Talent o Talent are needed to be identified first then developed to be used in
a particular subject area/field such as literature, sports, science,
politics, etc.
Experience o It includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of
mental and practical activities.
Knowledge o It is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to achieve
them and risk assessment.
Skills o It is also determined whether real actions are performed in
accordance with the plan.
o If the same ability is used many times in the same situation, then it
becomes a habit that runs automatically, subconsciously.

The following are skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns them:
1. Determination o It allows one to focus only on achieving a specific goal w/o being
distracted by less important things or spontaneous desires.
o It may be developed with the help of self-discipline exercise.
2. Self-confidence o It appears in the process of personal development, because of
getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences.
o It is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical
condition.
o To develop it, one need to learn oneself and one capability, gain
positive attitude and believe that by performing right actions and
achieving right goals you will certainly reach success.
3. Persistence o It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles
such as problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc.
o It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles.
o It can also be developed with the help of self-discipline exercise.
 4. Managing stress o It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment
and other people.
o It arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lock
of information creates the risk of negativity consequences of your
actions.
o It increases efficiency in the actively changing environment.
5. Problem-solving skills o They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of
experience.
o It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals
when obtaining a new experience.
6. Creativity o It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific
action that no one has tried to use.
o 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 o It helps you to achieve goals using ne, original, unconventional
ideas.
o Idea is a mental image of an object formed by the human mind
which can be implemented before being implemented in the real
world.

Mental Maps o It is a method which allows you to materialize, visualize, and

scrutinize all your ideas, which in turn contributed to the emergence
of new ideas.

→ These are just some, but the most important personal effectiveness skills which make the
achievement of any goal easier and less costly.

Build on your strengths and work o Most failures emanate from weaknesses that are not recognized or
on your weaknesses. probably recognized but not given appropriate attention or remedy.
o This can be a weakness in:
 Communications
 Personality
 Ability
o Instead of giving up or indulging in self-pity, take action.
o Go for speech lessons, get skills upgrading, attend personality
development sessions or whatever appropriate remedies to your
perceived weakness.
o Instead of simply focusing on your weaknesses, recognize your own
talents, and abilities, build on them, utilize them to your greatest
advantage.
Adolescence
o It is a period when a young individual develops from a child not an adult.
o There are many changes that happen to an adolescent and some are those:
 How you look  how other people expect you in making
 How you take your role in the community decisions on your own
 how you perceive yourself
Self o One of the determinants of what we thought about ourselves.
o It is also the result of what we think and/or do.

James 1890; Mead 1934. o It is the foundation of all human behavior.

o It is our sense of identity and who we are as an individual.
Characteristics o It refers to your own features or own qualities that made you
unique.
Habit o It is when you do something regularly.
Experiences o These are the skills or knowledge that you have gained because you
have done it already from the past.

Factors that may affect a person’s “Self”

1. Self-esteem o It is the evaluation of your own worth.
o It may be positive or negative.
o It may change from time to time depending on the situation we
encounter in our daily life.
o Since it can be partly a trait that someone can possess.
o It depend on how you perceive things coming your way.

Positive self-esteem o The valuation that is pleasing and acceptable according to your
standard and that of others

Negative self-esteem o The opposite which is the feeling distraught or down an unaccepted
by others.

There are many factors to identify the level of self-esteem of an

According to Tafarodi &
individual and some of major factors are:
Swan (1995)…
 Own appearance
 How satisfied you are in a relationship
 How you view your performance

Self-belief o It is one’s will to produce an effect on a specific thing.

o It is one self-belief to effectively achieve one most important goal.
o The stronger the belief the possibility to achieve a positive result.
 2. Self-Efficacy o It is not considered as trait.
o It does not refer to your abilities but rather to your beliefs about
what you can do with your abilities.

Maddux and Kleiman (200) a) Performance Experiences

define and explain 5 o If you are good at achieving your specific goal, then you
different ways that probably think that you will achieve it again.
influenced self-efficacy o When the opposite happens, if you fail, you will often think
beliefs from the ideas of that you will fail again.
Albert Badura, a professor,
and a psychologist. b) Vicarious Performances
o if others achieved their goal or specific task, then you will
come to believe that you will also achieve your goal.

c) Verbal Persuasion
o It is when people tell you whether they believe or not on
what you can do or cannot do,
o The effect of your self-efficacy will depend on how that
person matters to you.

d) Imaginal performance
o When you imagine yourself doing well, then it will happen.

e) The Affective States & Physical Sensations

o if your mood or emotion and physical state come together,
it will affect your self-efficacy.
o If negative mood connects with negative physical
sensation, the result will be negative.
o If it is positive, most likely the result will be positive.
o Many people believe that we are product if our own experiences.
→ These experiences shape our unique qualities and habits that define who we as a person and differ from
others.
Aspect of the Self
o Self-concept is represented by several aspects of the self.
o It is conceived as a collection of multiple context-dependent selves.
o This construct believes that context activates particular regions of self-knowledge and self-relevant
feedback affects self-evaluations.
o An individual comprises three basic but very different aspect of the self:
1. Physical o Then tangible aspects as they relate to the body.
2. Intellectual o The conscious aspect as they relate to mind.
3. Emotional o The intuitive aspects as they relate to the spirit.
Three aspects of the self:

→ Many individuals put a strong emphasis on the physical aspect of the self. The body is tangible, obvious,
and we respond to it easily. More time and money is spent on enhancing the physical component.
However, this does not mean that the body is healthy or strong.
Body
o Body provides a place to house the spirit (often experienced as feelings) and the mind (often
experienced as thought).

→ It may be important to some that their mind be prominent and well-educated.

→ People store both healthy and destructive thoughts and beliefs and responds to life’s circumstances in
the most prominent manner.
Mind
o Is important as it is the part of the self that directs the other two aspects.
o The mind learns what to do and communicates the information to the body and feelings.
o When the mind believes the body manifests or acts on, and the emotions feel, or respond with.
o The mind provides access to creativity and serenity which are necessary for such processes as
prater, forgiveness, acceptance, and passion.

→ Managing feelings is like trying to hold water in the palm of your hand.
→ A decision made under emotional stress and strain usually impacts emotions negatively.
Emotions
o the human emotions are the most feared aspect of the self, as individuals are reluctant and
unprepared to manage them.
o they are elusive and deceptive.
→ Negative emotions that are not managed are stored and repressed.
→ Repression is destructive to a content self since all feelings, not only negative ones are
stored away.
→ Accessing feelings when they are needed now becomes difficult, leaving individual
numb and hopeless.
 Aspects of Self-Development
1. Physical Self o Describe yourself including description of height, weight, facial
appearance, and quality of skin, hair, and descriptions of body areas
such as neck, chest, waist, legs.
2. Intellectual Self o Include an assessment of how you reason and solve problems, your
capacity to learn and create, your general amount of knowledge, your
specific areas of knowledge, wisdom you have acquired, and insights
you have.
3. Emotional Self o Typical feelings you have, feelings you seldom have, feelings you try
to avoid, feelings you especially enjoy, feelings from your past and
present, and feelings which are associated with each other.
4. Sensual Self o How you are as sensual person. What sense do you use most – sight,
hearing, speaking, smelling, touching?
o The different ways you take in information – through the eyes, ears,
mouth, nose, pores, and skin.
o In what ways do you let information in and out of your body.
5. Interactional Self o It is the descriptions of your strength and weaknesses in intimate
relationship and relationships to friends, family, co-students, and
strangers in social settings.
o The strengths and weaknesses which your family and friends have
noticed.
o What kind of son or daughter, brother or sister you are.
6. Nutritional Self o The way you nourish yourself.
o The foods you like and dislike.
7. Contextual Self o Descriptors in the areas of maintenance of your living environment.
o Reaction to light, temperature, space, weather, colors, sound and
seasons and your impact on the environment.
8. Spiritual Self or Life o How you feel in this area of life.
Force o It is the feelings about yourself and organized religion, reactions
about your spiritual connections to others, feelings about your
spiritual development and history, and thoughts about your
metaphysical self.
o It is about your inner peace and joy, and spiritual regimen or routine.