LESSON 3_ PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS Flashcards
**Means making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you to achieve life goals.
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Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage
yourself impacts directly on your personal
effectiveness.
Being self-aware, making the most of your strengths, learning new skills and techniques and behavioral flexibility are all keys to improving your personal performance.
Personal Effectiveness
Personal effectiveness depends on our innate characteristics:
- Talents
- Experience:
- Knowledge
- Skills
It is your natural ability which is inborn.
Talent
It is a learnt ability.
It is acquired or developed after you put in a lot of time and hardwork.
Skill
Skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of a person
- Determination
- Self-Confidence
- Persistence
- Managing Stress
- Problem Solving Skills
- Creativity
- Generating Ideas
It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted
Determination
It appears in the process of personal development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences.
Self- confidence
It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles
Persistence
It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from
the environment and other people.
Managing stress
They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience.
Problem solving skills
It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use.
Creativity
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.
Generating Ideas
