PERSONALITY

CHAPTER 2

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 Learning Outcomes

■ Understand the importance of personality &

image in developing our career
■ Able to differentiate between optimistic and
pessimistic attitude
■ Recognize the role of attitude in shaping our
personality

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TABLE OF CONTENT

PERSONALITY

ATTITUDE

POSITIVE ATTITUDE

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 Personality Perception Through
Human Eyes
■ Common answer
❑ Characteristics of a
person
■ Nice
■ Good looking

❑ Social skills
■ Polite
■ funny

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Definition Of Personality

■ Personality traits
❑ Determine how we adjust
■ To our environment
■ How we react in specific situations

■ Unique mix of physical and mental

❑ Founds within an individual
■ Physical (eyes, smile, body
posture)
■ Mental (tolerance, confidence)

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Personalities over time

■ Personalities constantly change during the

first half of a person’s life.
❑ Find new interests
❑ Like new things

■ Personalities change for all sorts of reasons

❑ The largest reasons
■ Attitude (Optimistic OR Pessimistic)

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Attitude
■ A mind-set
❑ Determine way on how we
■ Looks at things
mentally
■ Display our mood to
others

■ Attitude characteristic
❑ Never static
❑ Dynamic, on going &
perceptual process

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Types of Attitude

■ Optimistic
❑ Transmit a positive
attitude & people
usually respond
favorably

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Types of Attitude

■ Pessimistic
❑ Transmit a negative
attitude & people tend
to avoid you.

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Positive Attitude
■ Outward manifestation of mind that dwells primarily on
positive matters.
■ Not an act but purely genuine comes from the heart.
■ High Expectancy Success Theory : The more you
expect (attitude) from a situation, the more success you
will achieve.

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Role of Positive Attitude in Personality

■ Human depend heavily on their attractive physical or

mental characteristic
❑ Role play by positive attitude in Personality:
■ Enhance personality traits
■ Convert dull into exciting personality
■ Develop beautiful and extraordinary “aura” in person
■ Attract attention to outstanding traits

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Advantages Of Positive Attitude

• Trigger Enthusiasm
• When you are positive, your energy appear to be endless.

• Enhance Creativity
• Help your mind think freely where ideas and solutions rise to the surface.

• Serendipitous attitude can cause good things to happen

• When you act and think differently at things, it might invite something good and unexpected
to happen.

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IMAGE

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Image Factor
■ Personal image, visibility,
management & operational
style might influence:
❑ Internal promotion
❑ External appointment

■ Bring major impact on how

well you adapt and get
along within
organization/NORM

■ Big responsibility of
individual on how to shape
their career.

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Definition Of Image
■ A picture on the outside that
advertise what is available
on the inside

■ A promise that external

image will deliver:
❑ Skill
❑ Competencies

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Important of Image
■ Our style influence our
decision in career
development
■ We believe what we see with
our own eyes
■ We rely on first impression
■ We act as ambassador for our
profession or organization
■ Looking good is good for you
■ Feeling great, awesome and
extraordinary in our self

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Types of Image

■ Self-Image
❑ Influence by past
experience and it reflects
toward our current level
of self-esteem

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Types of Image

■ Perceived Image
❑ An image that come
cross by listen to
feedback either criticism
or compliment

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Types of Image

■ Received Image
❑ People judgment about
you through think and
hearing from others even
before meeting you

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Types of Image

■ Required Image
❑ Image that necessary
due to your profession,
work environment and
organizational culture

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Personal Image & Organizational Culture

■ People are persuaded by personal style, professionalism and

charisma
❑ Communicating a good personal image depend on the nature of
business

■ Nature of business:
❑ Conservative: traditional & autocratic
❑ Creative : Innovative & democratic
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Elements of Personal Image
■ Appearance
❑ Physical characteristic
❑ Clothes
❑ Grooming

■ Body Language
❑ Mannerism
❑ Posture
❑ Gesture

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Elements of Personal Image

■ Presence
❑ Charisma
❑ Confidence
❑ Self-esteem

■ Communication Style
❑ Speaking style
❑ Listening style
❑ Thinking style

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Elements of Personal Image

■ Reputation
❑ Track record
❑ Experience
❑ Qualifications

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END OF CHAPTER 2

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