Introduction
Today i am writing my first blog that is all about personal effectiveness. Personal effectiveness is a branch of the self-help movement dealing with success, goals, and related concepts. Personal effectiveness integrates some ideas from “the power of positive thinking” and positive psychology but in general it is distinct from the New Thought Movement.
7 basic personal effectiveness skill:
Every day we spend our time and energy on achieving goals. But even the same goal can be reached with different costs by different people. It happens because we all have different personal effectiveness.
Our 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 risk assessment. Skills also determine whether real actions are performed in accordance with the plan. If the same ability is used many times in the same situation, then it becomes a habit that runs automatically, subconsciously.
Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns them:
1. Determination
It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without 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. Check out these practical tips on how to increase self-confidence.
3. Persistence
It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles – problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the costs 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. It requires problem-solving skills.
5. Problem-solving skills
They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience. It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtain 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 costs, but usually the speed of action is greatly increased when using creative tools. It requires the ability to generate ideas.
7. Generating ideas
It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a mental image of an object formed 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 easier and less costly.
Benefits of personal effectiveness:
+ Develop ability to think clearly and logically
+ Structure through and present idea cohesively and effectively
+ Increase level of confidence in conducting oneself with internal and external customers
Main topics of personal effectiveness:
1) Positive impact
2) Setting goals
3) The trust factor –creating win win relationship
4) Self mastery-a plan for personal success
5) Workplace etiquettes
6) Communication
7) Time management
8) Stress management
9) Conflict resolution
10) Addressing emotion at work
1) Positive impact:
· Set of behavior that are beneficial at all levels of the organization
· How to be the type of employees successful companies fight to keep by applying seven high performance behavior to their professional life.
· Set of behaviors:
Taking initiative
Stand out of work
7 habits of highly effective people by Steven covey
- Be proactive
- Being with the end in mind
- Put first thing first
- Think win-win
- Seek first to understand then to b understood
- Synergize
- Sharpen the saw
· Stand out at work:
Career development is not always about moving up in the organization
It’s more about constantly improving yourself and getting the most out of your job and work life.
To stand out in a good way need to be aware of the consequences of what you think say and do.
2. Setting goals:
· S= specific (what why and how?
· M= measurable (if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
· A=attainable (goals you set which are too far out of your reach you probably won’t commit to doing
· R= realistic ( this is not a synonym for “easy” realistic in this case means “do able”
· T= timely ( set a time frame for the goals for next week, in three months, by fifth grade. Putting an end point on your goal gives you clear target to work towards
3. Creating win win situation:
Develop your communication and behavior skills to create a climate f trust, collaboration and good will with co-workers.
4. self mastery:
Learn a set of principle and personal management skill that will change how you view your life and an able you to grow in personal confidence and effectiveness
5. Etiquettes at work:
· Say hello how are you
· Your physical and verbal behavior are good with your collogues
· Sit up straight
· Mind your own business
· Avoid strong perfumes
· Use common scene
· Use speaker phone only for conference call
6. Communication:
Speak with more confidence and listen carefully to build report analyze and utilize body language to your advantage
7. Time management:
· We have only 24 hour in a day time doesn’t change. All we can actually manage is our self and what we do with the time that we have
· Wasting time- many of us are prey to time waste that steals time we could be using much more productivity. Do you spend too much time “net surfing “ reading emails or making personal calls
8.stress management:
· Avoid people who stress you out
· Avoid hot-button topics
· Pare down your to-do list
9. Conflict resolution.
· Listen firsthand talk second
· Keep people and problem separate
· Make sure that good relationship are the first priority
· Use active listening skills to ensure that you hear and understand others perception
· When you talk use an adult assertive approach rather than a submissive or aggressive style
10. Addressing emotions at work.
· Kick habits that hurts you .habit such as procrastinating overeating being disorganized ,avoiding conflict etc
· Learn how to stay calm and clearheaded when you start to lose your temper
· Eliminate over-reactive behaviors and replace them with reasonable behavior.
11. Attitude
· Always keep a positive attitude
· Talk nicely and be nice
CONCLUSION:
Personal Effectiveness Means Making Use Of All The Personal Resources At your Disposal- Talent, Skills,Energy And Time To enable You To Achieve Both Work And Life Goals
How You Manage Your Self Impact Directly On Your Personal Effectiveness. Being Self – Aware Making The Most Of Your Strenght, Learning New Skills And Techniques And Developing Behavioral Flexibility Are All Key To Improving Your Personal Performance.
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