PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
JAY LORD S. SANTOS
 PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Personal effectiveness means making use of all the
personal resources-talents, skills, energy and time,
to enable you to achieve life goals.
Personal effectiveness depends on our innate
characteristics – talent and experience accumulated
in the process of personal development.
KNOWLEDGE

•Is required for setting goals,

defining an action plan to achieve
them and risk assessment.
 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.
2. Self-confidence – it appears in the process of personal development as
a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their
consequences.
- it is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing and physical
condition.
3. Persistence – it makes you keep moving forward regardless of
emerging obstacles – problems, laziness and bad emotional state.
4. Managing Stress – it helps combat stress that
arises in daily life from the environment and other
people.
5. Problem Solving Skills – they help to cope with the
problems encountered with a lack of experience. It
increases the efficiency by adopting new ways of
achieving goals 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.
7. Generating Ideas – it helps you achieve goals using
new, original, unconventional ideas.
 HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL AND PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Accdg. Papalia and Feldman 2012
1. Physical Development
2. Cognitive Development
3. Psychosocial Development
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
-covers the growth of the
body and brain, motor and
sensory skills, and even
physical health.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- Which covers our capacity
to learn, to speak, to
understand, to freason, and
to create.
PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Which includes our social
interactions with other people, our
emotions, attitudes, self identity,
Personality, beliefs and values.
 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INFLUENCED
BY:
1. HEREDITY – INBORN TRAITS PASSED ON BY THE GENERATIONO
OFFSPRING FROM BOTH SIDES OF BIOLOGICAL PARENT’S.
2. ENVIRONMENT – THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES AND THE
EXPERIENCES THAT RESULT FROM OUR CONTACT AND INTER ACTION
WITH THIS EXTERNAL WORLD.
3. MATURATION – THE NATURAL PROGRESSION OF THE BRAIN AND THE
BODY THAT AFFECTS THE COGNITIVE-THINKING AND INTELLIGENCE,
PSYCHOLOGICAL – EMOTION, ATTITUDE, AND SELF IDENTITY,
SOCIAL- RELATIONSHIPS.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT?
Personality Development may be defined as a
process in which persons reflect upon
themselves, understand who they are, accept
what they discover about themselves, and learn
new sets of values, attitudes, behavior and
thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as
human being.
ACTIVITY