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Capacity Building For Self-Development and Personal Effectiveness

The presentation by Gbenga Emiloju focuses on capacity building for self-development and personal effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of acquiring skills and knowledge to remain relevant in a changing world. It outlines the dimensions, principles, techniques, impediments, and benefits of self-development, highlighting that ongoing personal investment is crucial for achieving success. The conclusion stresses the necessity of continuous self-improvement to maintain competitiveness and relevance in both personal and professional spheres.

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Capacity Building For Self-Development and Personal Effectiveness

The presentation by Gbenga Emiloju focuses on capacity building for self-development and personal effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of acquiring skills and knowledge to remain relevant in a changing world. It outlines the dimensions, principles, techniques, impediments, and benefits of self-development, highlighting that ongoing personal investment is crucial for achieving success. The conclusion stresses the necessity of continuous self-improvement to maintain competitiveness and relevance in both personal and professional spheres.

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CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
PRESENTED BY
GBENGA EMILOJU, ACIPM, LHRP, FAISM, FIMC-CMC
AT THE
GET-TOGETHER ORGANIZED BY
ASSOCIATION OF EKITI STATE NUTRITIONISTS,
RANSOME HOTEL, ADO-EKITI.
THUR. 9TH JANUARY 2025
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
 Introduction

 True Meaning of Self Development


 Why Building Capacity For Self-
development?
 Importance of Self-development

 Dimensions of Self-development

 Principles of Self-development

 Techniques for Self-development

 Impediments to Self-development

 Benefits of Self-development

 Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
 For an individual or organization to remain vibrant and
valuable in the ever changing world, building necessary
capabilities in relevant areas becomes unavoidable.
 Capacity building is a process by which an individual or
organization obtains or acquires the skills, tools,
knowledge, equipment or other resources needed to do
their jobs in an effective and efficient manner.
 Capacity building is a long-term, ongoing and a never
ending process. It requires constant commitment and
consistent determination, considering the dynamics and
complexity of ever changing world.
 Being current is the currency of the world. For an
individual to be relevant to his/her organization, he/she
must always be updated and constantly improve on
his/her skills and expertise.
TRUE MEANING OF CAPACITY BUILDING
 It is a process of self-assessment for necessary
improvement
 It is the ability of an individual to improve on his/her
inabilities and personal weaknesses
 It is a process of building the required skills in relevant
areas for growth
 It is a progressive effort to advance one’s life, career or
business.
 It is a process of acquiring skill, knowledge and
experience needed for one’s progress
 It is a systematic process of learning, unlearning and
relearning for personal improvement and positive
transformation
WHY BUIDLING CAPACITY FOR SELF-
DEVELOPMENT?

 It enhances self-awareness
 It helps us to attain full potential
 It enhances personal image
 It reveals our strengths and weaknesses
 It promotes self-reliance/self-confidence
 It increases our productivity
 It helps us to be highly resourceful.
 It helps us to figure out our rightful
places in the bigger picture. Etc
IMPORTANCE OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Self-development:
 is a core ingredient for personal effectiveness and
career success.
 promotes meaningful life and opens doors for greater
opportunities
 prepares you ahead of time to take advantage of
emerging opportunities
 enhances your preparedness and positions you for a
better consideration
 improves your ability and makes you to be highly
resourceful
 enhances your self-awareness and personal confidence.

 helps you to manage time and conserve energy. Etc


DIMENSIONS OF CAPACITY BUILDING
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT/CERTIFICATION
 Good and Quality Education

 Choosing Relevant Courses of Study

 Become an expert in your chosen field

SKILLS ACQUISITION/ENTREPRENEURSHIP
 Identify Relevant Skills or Profitable Business Ideas

 Enroll to acquire skill/experience needed to kick start

 Keep development yourself till you reach the top

TALENT DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT


 Discover your inborn and special abilities

 Develop and maximize them consistently

 Constantly place demand on it


PRINCIPLES OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT
 Envision a better tomorrow and build capacity to achieve it
 Identify relevant areas for possible growth and develop
yourself
 Desire to grow through the process and avoid short-cut
 Set achievable goals and pursue them with sense of purpose
 Invest your time, energy and resources in line with your goals
 Cultivate quality characters and dispose to people positively
 Build quality relationships and cultivate strategic alliances
 Cultivate the habit of reading and keep learning in relevant
areas
 Attend training, workshops, seminars and conferences that
are relevant to your growth
 Join relevant associations and necessary organizations that
are incidental to your growth and career advancement
TECHNIQUES FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT
 Start Now: The most suitable time to develop
yourself is at the point of discovering the need
 Baby Step: Learn to take a step at a time. It takes
time to build everything that exist
 Learn from Others: The secret of great people are
in their stories.
 Embrace Change: Be adaptive to changes as the
world itself keep changing daily
 Be Accountable: You are the CEO of your life, so be
always ready to give account of your actions
 Be Intentional: Whatever you intend becomes your
reality. You must always be intentional
 Open-Mindedness: Be open-minded and always
ready to learn something new. A closed mind is a
closed life
TECHNIQUES FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT CONTD.
 Challenge Yourself: Don’t envy or compete with
anyone. But always increase your appetite for challenge
 Follow your Passion: It is no good doing what you
don’t like. Choose paths that appeal to you and are in
line with your core-values
 Set-Goals: Set achievable goals and always follow them
through until they are accomplished
 Connections: Build networks of quality and productive
relationships with people whose lives are capable of
challenging you to live better
 Service: Live a life of service by contributing positively
to your community and the people around you
 Never Give-Up: Be determine not to give up in the face
of challenges. You grow through whatever you go
through
IMPEDIMENTS TO SELF-DEVELOPMENT
 Lack of Vision/Goal kills the desire for self-development
 Complacency makes you give up on efforts to develop yourself
 Fear of failure kills goals and paralyze the desire for self-
development
 Dwelling in comfort zone stunts growth and zeal for self-
development
 Associating with wrong people is dangerous to your growth
and self-development
 Laziness, Discouragement and frustration are enemies of self-
development
 Listening to negative opinions are inimical to your growth
process
 Distractions and Strange attractions are dangerous weapons
against self-development
 Unhealthy comparison and competitive jealousy are enemies
of progress
 Inverted priorities and wrong motives are destiny wasters
 EXCUSES
BENEFITS OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Self-Development:
 enhances effectiveness and efficiency

 increases productivity

 brings better opportunities

 gives you competitive advantages

 qualifies you for higher responsibilities

 confers honour and recognition

 brings a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment

 enables positive outcomes and strong finishing

 enhances personal/corporate strategies

 facilitates development plans/time management


CONCLUSION
 The future you do not prepare for would embarrass you when
you get thee. For an individual to achieve personal, career or
leadership success, it is important for such an individual to
build relevant capacity to facilitate the desired expectation.
 The amount of personal investment you make in developing
yourself as an individual or an organization would go a long
way to determine the level of competitive advantage you will
enjoy when opportunities emerge.
 It is better to have a cutlass you don’t need that need a cutlass
you don’t have. The amount of capacity you build for yourself
as an individual or an organization would go a long way to
determine the level of competitive advantage you will enjoy as
opportunities emerge.
 Keep developing yourself and you will continue to be relevant
to yourself, your organization and society.
THE END

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