power point presentation on personality development

2. 1. BE PRO-ACTIVE
How can you make lasting changes to
yourself & stay productive on a long-
term basis?
• This is the ability to control one's
environment, rather than control
other.
• It is more than taking initiative.
• Concept of circle of concern and
circle of influence

3. In order to change, you have to address
your character & not your behaviour.
What happens to a bottle of soda when
you shake it up?
It EXPLODES!

4. When you are PROACTIVE, you
make a choice about how you react to
the things that happen in your life.
You act like a water bottle. You might
get shaken up or mad, but you stay
calm and don’t explode.
Working on character involves
aligning personal paradigms with
universal principles.
How could you be more proactive?

5. Definitions
PARADIGM - is an assumption,
perception, frame of preference
MATURITY – it consists of three
phases: Dependence, Independence,
Interdependence.

6. Definitions
Dependence - reliance on
someone or something for
financial support
Independence - the fact or state
of being independent.

7. Knowledge
skill
Desire
Interdependence - the dependence
of two or more people or things on
each other.
Habit – intersection of knowledge,
skill and desire.
knowledge
desireskill

8. Circle of influenceCircle of
influence
Things you
can’t control
Things you
can control
or change
Focus on things you can change or influence
Principle of Personal Vision

9. •Other people
•The weather
•Things you did
wrong in the past
•How other
people treat me
•Homework
•Your attitude
•Your mood
•Your reaction to
good and bad things
that happen
•How I treat other
people
Things you CAN’T
control or change:
Things you CAN
control or change:

10. Convincing Part of Habit
• We are responsible to make things happen
We are responsible for our action
• We choose our behavior
• When things don’t go your way, you
aren’t happy, BUT you stay calm.
• Concept of circle of concern and
circle of influence

11. Doubtful Part of Habit
• As emotion is the
part of human nature
because of which an
expert person can be
derailed from pro-
activeness.

12. Appreciations
• It helps in handle situation
• It helps in making good choices about
how you respond to something happening
• You are always ready with a calm attitude
• It make sure that the right things will
happen at right time.
• It focus on those things
that you can change(circle
of influence)

13. Criticism
• Time taking activity
• Lots and lots of practice required.

14. 2. BEGIN WITH THE END IN
MIND
• This habit is based on the principle that
all things are created twice.
• There is a mental (first) creation, and a
physical (second) creation
• It state that we decide the direction of
our life.

15. • If you don’t know where you are going,
how will you know when you get there.
Imagine Having to Fix This
• It also advocate the different roles we
play in life and the need to maintain a
balance between these roles

16. Interdependence
Dependence
Independence
or This?
This?

17. DEPENDENCE
BE PRO-
ACTIVE
BEGIN WITH
END IN MIND
PUT FIRST
THINGS FIRST
PRIVATE
VICTORY

18. INDEPENDENCE
THINK WIN-
WIN
SYNERGIZE
UNDERSTAND
THEN TO BE
UNDERSTOOD
PUBLIC
VICTORY

19. How useful is that to have the end in mind.
• Before you figure out the “end”, you
have to take a look at what “YOU” want!
• By doing one exercise a person can
identify what he want in end?

20. • After ten years, a newspaper
decides to do a story about YOU!
They interview four people about
you. These could be friends or
family. What would you want them
to say about you?
MISSION

21. Convincing Part of Habit
• We write our own script
• All things are created twice and
the physical creation follows the
mental, just as a building follows
a blueprint.

22. • One of the best ways to incorporate
Habit 2 into your life is to develop a
Mission Statement.

23. Doubtful Part of Habit
• Difference between ideas and
priorities can be threat.

24. Appreciations
• Helpful in making mission
statement
• Re-write our own mission
statement
• Covey emphasizes that our self-
awareness empowers us to shape
our own lives, instead of living our
lives by default.

25. 3. PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
• This habit is where habit 1 and
habit 2 comes together.
• Habit 3 is the second creation,
the physical creation
• This is the habit of discipline
and management of your life as
per the direction you have
chosen.

26. 4. THINK WIN-WIN
Principle of Interpersonal Leadership
Win-win is a frame of heart and mind
that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all
human interactions.
With a win-win solution, all the parties
feel good about the decision and feel
committed to the action plan.
Win-win sees life as a cooperative, not a
competitive arena.

27. 5. SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND
THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
Principle of emphatic communication
Is the key to interpersonal communication
In emphatic learning, we listen with ears,
eyes and heart.
We have to build the skills of emphatic
listening on a base of character that
inspires openness and trust.

28. Diagnose before you prescribe.
Seeking to understand requires
consideration, seeking to be understood,
takes COURAGE.

29. 6. SYNERGIZE
Principle of creative cooperation.
Synergy is the highest activity in all life,
the truest test and manifestation of all the
habits put together.
Synergy simply defined means that the
whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Synergy means that 1 + 1 may equal to 8, 16
or even 1,600.

30. 7. SHARPEN THE SAW
Principle of balanced self -renewal.
It surrounds the other habits on the seven
habits paradigm because it is the habit that
makes all others possible.
It is the personal PC. It is preserving and
enhancing the greatest asset you have....
YOU!!!