Understanding your personal identity: Planning for personal, professional and social development

1. UNDERSTANDING YOUR PERSONAL
IDENTITY
PLANNING FOR PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER, 2015 – AREA “A” HALL, MUFAKOSE,
HARARE
Presentation by Cynthia Hakutangwi
(Communications and Personal Development
Consultant)

2. Presenter’s Profile – Cynthia Hakutangwi
 A Communications and Personal Development
Consultant, Transformation Activist, Author, and
Strategist.
 Holds qualifications in Marketing
Communications, and Transformational
Leadership
 Has worked extensively in human resource
development, marketing, research, strategy
design, and organisational structuring.
 Has developed and facilitated various
programmes in business skills, personal and
transformational leadership development.
 A contributing writer for lifestyle, wellness and
leadership related publications.
 Film productions include THE EXTRA MILE and
Intelligent Conversations TV series
 Her published book titles include “The Whole
You – Vital Keys for Balanced Living,”
“Intelligent Conversations: A mindset shift
towards a developed Africa” and Success
Within Reach
 Cynthia is married with four children.

3. PLANNING AND BEING ORGANIZED, KEY TO SUCCESS

4. Getting to Know Yourself
 There are 3 inter-related dimensions to who you
are:
(i) Internal Dimension-how you look at yourself,
how you look at the world, who you think you are
and where you are
(ii) External Dimension-how the world looks at you.
The world needs to relate to you somehow- by
assigning an identity to you. The world is in a
hurry and it needs to put everything and
everyone into concepts as soon as possible
(iii) The God Dimension - what has God created
you to be? – The Dominion Mandate Read
Genesis 1:26-28

5. Who are you?
 Your inner self is who you really are on the
inside. To know your inner self is to know your
purpose, your values, your visions, your
motivations, your goals and your beliefs. Not
as what you have been told by others, but
what you have discovered for yourself.

6. The Authentic self
When you're asked, "Who are you?" what is your
answer?
 Is it what you do, what your social station is, or how
you see your function in life.
The authentic self is the you that can be found at
your absolute core. It is the part of you not defined
by your job, function or role. It is the composite of all
your skills, talents and wisdom. It is all of the things
that are uniquely yours and need expression, rather
than what you believe you are supposed to be and
do.

7. The Fictional self versus the Authenic Self
 You may have found that it's easier to fill the roles
your family and friends expect of you, rather than
becoming who you really want to be.
 When you live a life that has you ignoring your true
gifts and talents while performing assigned or
inherited roles instead, you are living as your fictional
self.
 The authentic self is the you that can be found at your
absolute core. It is the composite of all your skills,
talents and wisdom. It is all of the things that are
uniquely yours and need expression, rather than what
you believe you are supposed to be and do.
 What defines you is who you are and what you
stand for.

8. Personal leadership questions
 Who AM I?
 Why AM I here?
 Where AM I going?
 How will I get there?
 What will be my LEGACY?

9. CAREER AND CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
What is a career?
Def. (Oxford English Dictionary)
A person’s course or progress through life.
It also pertains to their occupation or profession that
usually involves special training or formal education
and is considered to be a person’s lifework.
What is career development?
Career development is an ongoing process of gaining
knowledge and improving skills that will help an
individual to establish a career plan.

10. WHY CAREER DEVELOPMENT?
Today’s Generation Students…….
 Fail to plan for the future.
 Follow the crowd
 Choose by influence of others.
 Accept the parent’s verdict(decision) by force
 Get tempted by current trends
 Jump into any career
 Lack motivation
 Fail to ‘’discover their lives’’
 Live in a fantasy world

11. So what do you want to do with the rest of your life
????

12. Goal Setting
• To start managing time effectively, you need to
set goals. When you know where you're going,
you can then figure out what exactly needs to
be done, in what order.
• People tend to neglect goal setting because it
requires time and effort.
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13. Goal Setting
• What is the difference between a dream and a
goal?
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14. Writing Goals
• Goals give us direction.
• A goal is clear and meaningful to the person who has
defined it and can be communicated to others when the
need arises.
• Well defined goals can be your greatest motivator for
action.
• The goal you identify must be personally meaningful to
you and be consistent with your values.
• It must be worth every minute you put into it and the
benefits you have clearly determined to achieve.
• When you know where you are going, you will do your
utmost to make sure you get there. And when you are
there develop the habit of documenting and celebrating
your success.

15. Goal Setting
• Goal setting is the process of deciding what you
want to accomplish and devising a plan to
achieve the result you desire.
• Goal setting is a two part process. For effective
goal setting, you need to do more than just
decide what you want to do; you also have to
work at accomplishing whatever goal you have
set for yourself.
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16. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
3. Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:
• Family and Home
• Financial and Career
• Spiritual and Ethical
• Physical and Health
• Social and Cultural
• Mental and Educational
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17. Who Is Mentoring You?

18. Role Model, Coach or Mentor?
• Making the right choice will determine your interaction
with the individual.
• A role model is an individual in which the behaviour is
observed from a distance.
• A mentor is someone that the individual works with on a
fairly regular basis. It involves observing the mentor but
also includes the opportunity for discussion, evaluation
and progress through 2-way communication between the
mentor and the mentee.
• The individual and their coach on the other hand have a
task based relationship. A coach looks at you work and
gives you advice on how to improve your results

19. Who is in your Social Circle?

20. Barriers to Personal Development
• Believing you do not have time
• Not understanding the value of development
• Believing that experience is the only teacher
• Fear of change
• No curiosity or thirst for learning
• Only respecting information that is immediately useable
and believing leadership development is impractical

21. What are the Barriers to Your Success?
• Personal Barriers – Barriers within yourself
• Your motivation, education, training, energy, personality
characteristics, leadership skills, self-confidence, conflicting values,
stress tolerance, etc
• Environmental Barriers – Barriers outside of your control
• External forces that are out of your control, for example the culture
in which you live or the attitudes of leaders in your organization
• Conflict Barriers – when two goals compete with each
other
• Conflict barriers exist when you want to achieve two goals that
appear to be in competition or conflict with each other

22. Prioritising
• Prioritizing what needs to be done is important.
Without it, you may work very hard, but you won’t
be achieving the results you desire because what
you are working on is not of strategic importance.
• To work efficiently you need to work on the most
important, highest value tasks
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23. Thank You
CYNTHIA
HAKUTANGWI
Communications & Personal Development
Consultant
Mobile: 0772 438 068
E-mail: chakutangwi@gmail.com
cynthia@wholenessincorporated.com
Website: www.wholenessinc.com
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