PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

AND APPLIED ETHICS

CHAPTER 1
DEFINITION AND ITS
COMPONENTS
 Your Image and Its Impact
 Relaxed – to lower nervous tension
 free from tension and anxiety; at ease.
 Radiant – Emitting energy with bright joy
 It is sending out light; shining or glowing brightly.
 Elegant – gracefully refined showing good taste
 Image – reproduction or mental picture of yours
seen by other people
 Personal Package – involve the whole personality
as other think of you with the effect of your body
language.
Relaxed
Radiant
Elegant
Image
 Factors to consider in Personality/
professionalism
 1. Possess communication skills
 2. Ability to cope with hectic time schedule
 3. Adaptability to sort of situation
 4. Willingness to accept and to be accepted by
others
Personality
 PERSONALITY
 Personality – it is a sum total of the qualities
and characteristics of a person as shown in her
manner of walking, talking, dressing and her
attitudes , interest and ways of reacting to other
people.
Personality of a person
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
It is a learning to earn or
maintain professional
credential s such as
academic degrees to
formal coursework,
attending conferences,
and informal learning
opportunities situated in
practice. It has been
described as intensive
and collaborative ideally
incorporating an
evaluative stage.
 Halo Effect – unchanging opinion of other
based only on a first general impression.
 It is the tendency for positive impressions of a
person, company, brand or product in one area
to positively influence one's opinion or feelings
in other areas. It is a type of cognitive bias.
Halo Effect
 Components of Personality
 1. Physical – mode of dressing, manner of
walking, posture, body building, health,
complexion and facial expression
 2. Intellectual – develop brain and intellect
 3. Social – good manners , to do the right thing
at the right time , it is to get along well with
others.
 4. Emotional – person’s like and dislike
 - outgoing/ shy
 - calm/ nervous
 - cool / roses his temper
 5. Value System – person’s attitudes, belief and
philosophy in life . It is also called as
CHARACTER.
Components of Personality
 How is your personality revealed
 1. Marriage – after years of courtship
 2. Boy and Girl relationship – first impression
 - physical appearance, grooming, facial
features, poise
 - Interacting of ideas and revealing of
intelligence