UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL PUNJAB

Subject:
Leadership & professional Development
Roll No:

M1F17BBAM0046

Submitted By:

Hamza Maqsood

Submitted to:

Prof. Haroon Chughtai

Semester:

7th

Program:

BBA (Hons)
Question:

The process of clarifying your values by reflecting your ideal image of yourself. How you
would most like to see yourself by others. Write your point of view.

Answer:

There are Different step for the process of clarifying your values by reflecting your ideal
image of yourself such as:

 Write a tribute to yourself.

 Write your Credo
 Engage in Credo Dialogue

Write a tribute to yourself:

Begin the process of clarifying your values by reflecting on your ideal image of yourself—
how you would most like to be seen by others. Try this exercise: Imagine that tonight you‘ll
be honored as Leader of the Year. Hundreds of people will gather to pay tribute to your
contributions to your family, your colleagues, your organization, or your community. Several
people will make speeches praising your performance and your character.

While writing a tribute to yourself you have knew different about yourself such as

How Identity is related?

Identity is also a closely related concept but is also a larger and more comprehensive one than
self-image. Identity is our overall idea of who we are. As self-concept and self-esteem expert
Roy Baumeister puts it:

―The term ‗identity‘ refers to the definitions that are created for and superimposed on the
self‖ (1997, p. 681).

In other words, identity is the whole picture of who we believe we are—and who we tell
ourselves and others that we are—while self-image is one piece of that picture.

Discover Your Values and Goals:

Assessing your core values

The journey of achieving success in college begins with a single step: identifying your
personal values. Your personal values are your core beliefs and guiding principles. They
shape the roles you play in daily life. They color your interests and passions and frame your
thoughts and words. In essence, your values are a compass that helps you make decisions and
choices.
Identifying your own values helps you plan for:

 Your academic goals

 Your career goals
 Your financial goals
 How you spend and manage your time
 How you spend and manage your money

Values are the things that you believe are fundamentally important in the way you live and
work. They shape how you interact with others.They determine your priorities (whether
you‘re conscious about it or not), and they shape the choices you make. They are the
measures by which you judge yourself and they‘re also the measures by which you judge
others.

Why find your core values?

This might seem like a rhetorical question, but in fact, it is quite important to understand the
power and importance of core values. They are your foundation as a person, guiding your
actions and your decisions. The stronger the foundation the better and greater the person you
will be able to become.

What are your values, then? Which are most important to you, and which are least important?
How do your values fit into your educational goals? How do your educational goals relate to
your future career? Are you spending your time in a way that prioritizes your goals? Does
your budget reflect your goals?

To help you answer these questions, you can use a ―self-assessment‖ survey. These surveys
can help you evaluate your personal identity—your thoughts, actions, attitudes, beliefs,
values, and behaviors—in relationship to the task at hand, like going to college and preparing
for a career.

Stages of life

Keep in mind that your personal values and interests can and do change as you get older. This
is evidenced in research conducted by a number of contemporary social scientists, like Erik
Erikson and Daniel Levinson. Their studies show how our values affect our choices and how
our choices can characterize the stage of life we‘re in.

For example, college students, ages 18–26, tend to make choices that are tentative (more
short-range) and support a desire for autonomy. Later, during ages 27–31, young adults may
rethink decisions and lean toward more permanent choices. In ages 32–42, adults tend to have
a greater sense of commitment and stability, as shown by their choices. In essence, our
personal identity and values change over time, but they continue to affect our choices and can
illuminate the stage of life we‘re in.
Setting goals

Some people are goal oriented and seem to easily make decisions that lead to achieving
their goals, while others seem just to ―go with the flow‖ and accept what life gives them.
While the latter may sound pleasantly relaxed, moving through life without goals may not
lead anywhere at all. The fact that you‘re in college now shows you already have the major
goal to complete your college program.

Write your Credo:

Imagine that your organization has afforded you the chance to take a six month sabbatical, all
expenses paid. You will not be permitted to communicate to anyone at your office or plant
while you are away. Not by letter, phone, fax, e-mail, or other means.

Writing a credo we have to keep some points in our mind such as:

Start each line below with ―I believe.‖

 Write down five specific things you believe about one or all of these topics: religion,
politics, nutrition, a particular sport, sex.
 Write down five specific things you believe about one or all of these topics:
asparagus, birds, sweatshirts, small appliances, personal hygiene.
 Write down five things you do NOT believe in, from any of the above categories.
 Write down three things you WISH you believed in (no limits).
 Write down two things you USED TO believe in, but don‘t any longer (no limits).
 Write down what you believe is THE MOST AMAZING thing or event in the known
or unknown universe, or simply in your own personal experience.
 Use these lines to construct a poem that starts, ―I believe…‖
 Revise: start adding in WHY you believe these things for all or every other line. See
what happens to the poem. Remove some of the ―I believe‖ statements to create a list-
like tone. Check on your choice of verbs, words, clichés, unintentional repetitions,
predictability. Strive for your own, unique voice in every possible way.

Engage in Credo Dialogue:

Start by gathering together the people you lead for a dialogue about shared values. Tell
them what you‘ve learned about personal values and about shared values. Tell them that
you‘ve written a Credo Memo that you‘d like to share with them, but before doing it
you‘d like them to do the same thing. Explain the Credo Memo process to them (see
previous action) and give them each time to write something—five to ten minutes should
be sufficient.

Once they have all written their own Credo Memos, ask each person to share with a few
colleagues in small groups what he or she wrote. Ask them to describe both what they
wrote and why they selected the values they recorded in the memo.
Once each person has had a chance to express key values, ask the groups to reflect on
what was discussed. Was each person‘s set of guiding values in the Credo Memo
idiosyncratic, or were there some similar values being expressed? (If your experience is
similar to ours, you‘ll hear that there were a number of commonalities.)