Professional

Development and
Applied Ethics
Lesson 1- Personality
This course describes the skills, knowledge, and
performance outcomes required to develop the ability of
students to become professionals in their field by
understanding the ideas of improving one’s personality
and ways on how they are going to be valued in the
business industry by means of presenting their ideas like
company meetings, professional networking, interviews
and through proposals of services considering the proper
collaboration to their associates and portraying
professional business.
 What is
Personality?
Personality
is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and
interacts with others. Or Personality is generally defined as
the deeply ingrained and relatively enduring patterns of
thought, feeling and behavior. In fact, when one refers to
personality, it generally implies to all what is unique about
an individual, the characteristics that makes one stand out in
a crowd.
 Your personality includes your patterns of thoughts, actions, and
emotions. It’s also influenced by your temperament and experiences.
Your personality involves:

- traits, like loyalty, perfectionism, and extroversion

- character, which includes your core beliefs and
ethical code
- temperament, which you were born with and involves
your predisposition to act and feel in certain ways
Personality determinants:
 Heredity refers to
Heredity those factors that
were determined
at conception
 The environmental factors
that exert pressures on our

Environment : personality formation are the

culture in which we are raised,
our early conditioning, the
norms among our family,
friends and social groups, and
other influences that we
experience.
 An individual’s
personality although
Situation :
generally stable and
consistent, does
change in different
situations.
What is a personality trait?
Personality traits are characteristic
patterns in how you think, feel, and act.
Common examples of personality traits include:

● generosity ● courage
● extroversion ● honesty
● loyalty ● arrogance
How does personality develop?
Personality Development
is one of the most
important aspects in
human venture. It is
linked with the success or
failure of human beings.
Your personality can be influenced by:
● genes ● community and
● biology
culture
● life experiences
● adverse events you’ve
● early bonds
faced ● raising styles
What are personality disorders?
Personality disorders

are mental health conditions that involve a few

personality traits that tend to cause great
distress and represent challenges in different
aspects of your life.
Cluster A personality disorders involve odd and eccentric traits, and
include:

● Paranoid personality disorder

● Schizotypal personality disorder
● Schizoid personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder is part of cluster A, exhibiting behaviors that typically are:

● You constantly suspect others

● odd or bizarre
want to trick, hurt, or use you,
● eccentric even when you don’t have
evidence.
● suspicious or ● You hesitate to talk openly about

distrustful anything with others because you

suspect they may use that
information against you.
Schizotypal personality is a formal mental health condition mainly characterized
by:
● magical thinking and odd beliefs
● unusual bodily perceptions
● difficulty forming and keeping
relationships
● peculiar, eccentric, or atypical
thoughts and behaviors
Schizoid personality disorder falls into cluster A. All conditions in this cluster are characterized by
similar symptoms or behaviors and thoughts that are:

● odd
● eccentric or suspicious
● detached
Cluster B personality disorders involve Cluster C personality disorders involve fearful
dramatic, emotional, and erratic traits, and and anxious traits, and include:
include:

● obsessive-compulsive
● narcissistic personality disorder
personality disorder (not to be
(NPD)
confused with
● antisocial personality disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder
● borderline personality disorder
(OCD))
(BPD)
● histrionic personality disorder ● dependent personality disorder
(HPD) ● avoidant personality disorder
 TRAITS FOR BUILDING
POSITIVE PERSONALITY :
 The price of
1. Accept grateness is the
Responsibility: responsibility –
Winston
Churchill
 Show
2. Show consideration,
consideration : courtesy,
politeness and
caring.
 4. Choose your
3. Think Win-Win :
words carefully:
5. Never Criticize,
Complain and
6. Smile and Be
Condemn
Kind :
 7. Put Positive
interpretation on
other people’s
We see the world not
behavior:
as it is, but as we are.
8. Be a Good 9. Be
Listener : Enthusiastic :
10. Give honest 11. When you
and Sincere make a mistake,
Appreciation : accept it and
make it easy to
amend:
12. Discuss but 13. Don’t Gossip:
don’t argue:
14. Turn your 15. Be grateful
promises into but do not
commitment: expect
gratitude:
16. Be dependable 17. Avoid bearing
and practice grudges:
loyalty:
18. Practice 19. Practice
honesty, Integrity Humility:
and Sincerity:
20. Be 21. Practice
understanding courtesy on
and Caring : daily basis :
22. Develop a 23. Don’t be
sense of humor: sarcastic and
put others down
:
24. To have a friend 25. Show
be a Friend : Empathy :