This document discusses self-awareness and personality development. It encourages getting to know yourself through understanding your values, interests, skills and talents. It provides a five-step approach to career planning that begins with self-knowledge. It also discusses developing self-awareness, self-regulation and evaluating yourself, as well as understanding your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The document poses questions to help the reader gain deeper self-knowledge and shape their personality.

1. WHO AM I…???????
MATHIVANAN K.
MBA 2014
SOURASHTRA COLLEGE,
MADURAI

3. Being Individual
Everyone is different.
Your personality and self-image make you
an individual.

4. Self-Awareness Means Knowing
Yourself
Self-awareness is about
knowing yourself.
self-awareness
Knowing your thoughts,
feelings, and actions.
When you know yourself, you
can make good choices.

5. Self-Awareness Means Knowing
Yourself
To be self-aware, you need to know:
Your
values
Your
interests
Your
skills
Your
talents

6. Knowing Yourself Better = Better Career Decision
Making

7. Time for Change
There are two reasons to choose MBA:
1.To get a piece of paper so someone will give you a
job.
2.For the personal development that takes place.
• If you go for the first reason only, you will probably
be disappointed. The second can never be taken
away.

8. Five-Step Approach
• Know Yourself
• Strategic Searching
• The Interview
• Learning and Growing
• Planning for Life

9. Know Yourself
• Vocation – Career – Job
• Identify your skills and abilities.
• Identify your personality traits.
• Identify your values, dreams and passions.
• What are your goals?
• What are your priorities?
• Personal Branding

10. Planning for Life
• What are we really working for?
• Live a Life of Balance (Happiness)
• Set Goals and Follow Your Dreams
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that
count. It’s the life in your years.”
-Abraham Lincoln

11. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
WRITE TEN SENTENCES (EACH)
STARTING WITH
1. I AM .................
2. OTHERS THINK ABOUT ME AS……
3. I WANT TO BE………

12. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
ASK YOUR TEAM MEMBERS TO
WRITE TWO SENTENCES (EACH)
STARTING WITH
1. YOU ARE………….

13. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
WHAT IS MY CHARACTER ?
(ME CHART)

14. WHAT AM I (SELF SCHEMA)

15. HOW YOUR PERSONALITY CHANGES?
SELF THEORY
1. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT
YOURSELF?
2. WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT OTHERS
THINK ABOUT YOU?
3. WHAT DO OTHERS THINK ABOUT YOU?
4. WHAT ACTUALLY YOU ARE

16. PERSONALITY CHANGE PROCESS
2. OTHERS
IMAGE
3. DESIRED
IMAGE
4. MODIFIED
BEHAVIOR
5.PERSONALITY
CHANGE
1. SELF IMAGE

17. HOW TO DEVELOP OUR
PERSONALITY
THE WAY WE LIKE?

18. WHERE DO YOU BELONG TO?
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR?
-PETER DRUCKER

19. EXAMINING OUR OWN BEHAVIOR
CHECK
YOURSELF
INFRONT
OF
A
‘MIRROR’

20. SELF-AWARENESS
The psychological
process in which
you focus on
yourself as an
object of attention.

21. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
THE HABITUAL
TENDENCY TO
ENGAGE IN SELF-
AWARENESS.

22. SELF-REGULATION
The ways in which
we consciously direct
and control our own
behavior.

23. EVALUATING OURSELVES

24. MY KSA
• KNOWLEDGE
I AM A BUNDLE OF KNOWLEDGE
• SKILL
I HAVE A SET OF SKILLS
• ATTITUDE
MY ATTITUDE IS MY BEHAVIOR

26. STRENGTHS
• What are your advantages?
• What do you do well?
• What can you do better than anyone
else?
• What is natural for you?
• What comes easy for you?
• What are your preferences?

27. Weaknesses
• What could be improved?
• What is done badly?
• What should be avoided?
• What’s not easy for you?
• What don’t like you to do?

28. OPPORTUNITIES
• Where is leverage to be found?
• Where are the good chances facing you?
• What are the interesting trends?

29. THREATS
What obstacles do you face?
What is your competition doing?
Are the required specifications for your job,
products or services changing?
Is changing life style threatening your
survival?
What do you find yourself constantly up
against?

30. Questions to be asked???

31. • What is the one thing that makes you special
and unique?
• How do people perceive you?
• Do people see you for the special person that
you are?
• If money was not a constraint, what would
you be doing with your time?
• What do you do for a living?
• What are you grateful for?

32. • If you die tomorrow, will you be happy with
the life you’ve lived?
• What is the one movie you don’t mind
watching over and over? (or the one book you
could just read any number of times?)
• If someone made a movie out of your life,
what will it be like?
• Who Are your friends and foes?

33. • If you are in a sinking ship with everyone you
know, and you could only save 10 people, who
would it be?
• If you die today, who will miss you the most?
• Why will these people miss you when you are
gone?
• If you had the power to make someone
vanish, who would that be?
• If tomorrow’s newspaper read “<Your name
here> shot dead” who would be the person
holding the revolver?

34. • Are you a better person today than you were
last year at this same time? Or 10 years ago?
• What was your last random act of kindness?
• How many hours of a day do you spend on
unproductive activities like watching TV,
snooping around on others’ facebook profiles,
idle gossip etc.?
• What if you lose all you money?

35. • Who is making most of the decisions in your
life - you, those around you or your
circumstances?
• What is the one thing you fear the most when
you think of yourself as an old person?
• Will you ever be invited to give a talk (eg.,
TED) or an interview (eg. Oprah) etc.?

36. THANK YOU