PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OR SELF-IMPROVEMENT consists of activities that develop a
person's pabilities and potential, build human capital, help in employability, enhance quality of life, and
facilitate the realization of dreams and hopes. Personal development may take place over the course
of an a person entire lifespan and is not limited to one stage of a person's life. It can include official and
informal actions for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, coach, or
mentor, and it is not restricted to self-help. When personal development takes place in the context
of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems offered
to support positive adult development at the individual level in organizations.
personal development may include the following activities
Participating in festivals, conferences, or conventions
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IS PROCESS OF
Improving self-awareness
Improving self-knowledge
Improving skills and/or learning new ones
Building or identity/self-esteem
Developing strengths or talents
Improving a career
Identifying or improving potential
Building employability or (alternatively) human capital
Enhancing lifestyle and/or the quality of life and time-management
Improving health
Improving wealth or social status
Fulfilling Hopes
Initiating a life enterprise
Improving social relations or emotional intelligence
Personal development can also include developing people's skills and personalities. This can happen
through roles such as those of a teacher or mentor, either through a personal competency (such as the
alleged skill of certain managers in developing the potential of employees) or through a professional
service (such as providing training, assessment, or coaching).
personal development activities are prayer, music, dance, singing, chanting, poetry, writing, sports and
martial arts.
Social psychology.
Social psychology heavily emphasizes and focuses on human behavior and how people interact with
others in society.
Early education
Education offers children the opportunity to begin personal development at a young age. The
curriculum taught at school must be carefully planned and managed in order to successfully promote
personal development. Providing an environment for children that allows for quality social relationships
to be made and clearly communicated objectives and aims is key to their development. If early
education fails to meet these qualifications, it can greatly stunt development in children, hindering their
success in education as well as society. They can fall behind in development compared to peers of the
same age group.
Higher education
During the 1960s a large increase in the number of students on American campuses led to research
on the personal development needs of undergraduate students. Arthur Chickering defined seven
vectors of personal development for young adults during their undergraduate years:
1. Developing competence
2. Managing emotions
3. Achieving autonomy and interdependence
4. Developing mature interpersonal relationships
5. Establishing personal identity
6. Developing purpose
7. Developing integrity
Education for questions of learning and assessment
Psychology for motivation and personality
Sociology for identity and social networks
Economics for human capital and economic value
Philosophy for ethics and self-reflection
Developmental activities
Personal Development can include gaining self-awareness of the course of one's lifespan. Self-
awareness is more in depth and explores the conscious and unconscious aspects of ourselves. We
are able to gain self-awareness through socializing and communicating according to the social
behaviorism view. Self-awareness can also be a positive intrapersonal experience where one is able to
reflect during a moment of action or past actions. Becoming more self aware can help us to increase
our emotional intelligence, leadership skills, and performance.
Peter Drucker [Link] live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: if you've got ambition and smarts,
you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. But with
opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their employees'
careers; knowledge workers must, effectively, be their own chief executive officers. It's up to you to
carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive
during a work life that may span some 50 years.
Employee surveys may help organizations find out personal-development needs, preferences and
problems, and they use the results to design benefits programs. Typical programs in this category
include.
Work-life balance
Time management
Stress management
Health programs
Counseling
personal development aim is to increase human capital or improving productivity,
SELF SERVICE IS ALSO PART OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Creates confidence
2. Physical Exercise
3. Money and Time Saving
COMMUNICATION WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLES IN ORGANIZATIONS AND DIFFERENT CULTURES
While talking/debating or scolding any people we must have to keep in mind that the persons who we are
communicating may be Blood Pressure Patient or Heart Patient or Psychiatric Patient, Sensative mind or
otherwise which may cause him to hurt or another accident due to harsh communication.
OBLIGATION VERSUS DISOBEDIENCE. In organization obligation plays vital role to maintain the goals to right
direction. But if the direction is illegal or beyond of the responsibility or due to ulterior motive it must be denied
on the spot no matter how harsh the behavior of officer may be, because complain will only make a small loss but
obligation of illegal command will cause huge loss to not only the employee but also organization.
Ego. In organization Ego must be ignored it because worse the relationships of organization/Society/Relatives
etc.
SUPPRESSION. Never let the suppression over come to you. Standing with confidence and without fear will defeat
the cruelty.
