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Personal Effectiveness

Personal effectiveness involves utilizing personal resources such as talent, skills, energy, and time to achieve life goals, with self-awareness and behavioral flexibility being key components. Essential skills for enhancing personal effectiveness include determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation. The document also outlines developmental stages from pre-natal to old age, highlighting the growth and changes experienced throughout life.

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Personal Effectiveness

Personal effectiveness involves utilizing personal resources such as talent, skills, energy, and time to achieve life goals, with self-awareness and behavioral flexibility being key components. Essential skills for enhancing personal effectiveness include determination, self-confidence, persistence, stress management, problem-solving, creativity, and idea generation. The document also outlines developmental stages from pre-natal to old age, highlighting the growth and changes experienced throughout life.

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PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources talent skills energy and time to
enable you to achieve life goals.
Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage yourself impact directly on your personal effectiveness
being self-aware making the most of your students learning new skills and techniques in 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 talents first are needed to be identified and then developed to be used in a particular
subject area (science, literature, sports, politics etc.).

Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of cognitive and practical activities.

Knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to achieve them and growth assessment. Skills also
determine whether real actions are performing important with a plan. If the same ability is used many times in the
same situation then it becomes a habit when automatically, subconsciously. Here are some skills that will create
increase the efficiency of any person who owns them:

1. Determination. It allows you to focus on the achieving specific quality of being distracted by less
important things or spontaneous desires. It may be developed with the help of self-discipline
exercise.
2. Self-confidence. It appears in the process of personal development, as a result of getting aware of
yourself your actions and their consequences. 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.
3. Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles – problems,
laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the cost of overcoming obstacles it can also be
developed with the help of self-discipline exercise.
4. Managing stress. It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other
people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of information
creates the risk of negative consequences of your actions. It increases efficiency in the actively
changing environment.
5. Problem-solving skills. They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience
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 cost but usually the speed of action is greatly
increase when using creative tools.
7. Generating ideas. It helps you achieve goals using new, original, and conventional ideas. Idea is a
mental image of an object form 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 these are just some but the most important personal effectiveness skills
which make the achievement of any goal is here and less costly.
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

Pre-natal
(Conception to birth)
Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and old body features, both external
internal are developed.
Infancy
(Birth to 2 years)
Foundation age when basic behavior are organized and many ontogenetic maturation skills
are developed.
Early childhood
(2 to 6 years)
Pre-gang age exploratory, and questioning. Language and Elementary reasoning are
acquired and initial socialization is experienced.
Late Childhood
(6 to 12 years)
Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills, school skills, and play are
developed.
Adolescence
(Puberty to 18 years)
Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex maturation and rapid physical
development occurs resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking, and acting.
Early Adulthood
(18 to 40 years)
Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, parent and bread
winner.
Middle Age
(40 years to retirement)
Transition age when adjustments to initial physical and mental decline are experienced.
Old Age
(Retirement to death)
Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical and mental decline are experienced.

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