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Chapter 1 Developing Self Knowledge

The document discusses gaining self-knowledge through understanding personality types, learning styles, and strengths/weaknesses. It explains different personality types like introvert/extrovert, temperaments, and learning styles like visual/auditory. The document advises that gaining self-knowledge of these traits will help ease career transitions and ensure workplace success.

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Chapter 1 Developing Self Knowledge

The document discusses gaining self-knowledge through understanding personality types, learning styles, and strengths/weaknesses. It explains different personality types like introvert/extrovert, temperaments, and learning styles like visual/auditory. The document advises that gaining self-knowledge of these traits will help ease career transitions and ensure workplace success.

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Chapter 1

Values & Ethics


Developing self-knowledge
• Employer search for ideal employee
• Looking for character, skills & experience count
• How responsible you are?
• Can count on you?
• Good habits? Work hard, strive for excellence,
professional ethic
• It’s never too late to develop these

Great management is about character, not technique.


Thomas Teal, Harvard Business Review

Introduction
A you
• Best-sellers – books on self-image & self-
improvement
• Focusing on self-knowledge – invaluable
• Character counts beside technical skills
• New graduate: changed because of work
environment
Nothing in school prepared me for being in
charge so much.

I didn’t think I was an emotional person,


but three months of training really threw
You may me.
have heard:

I knew that what may have come


naturally for my coworkers just didn’t for
me. I could do what I needed to socially.
“Be more concerned with your character than
your reputation, because your character is
what you really are, while your reputation is
merely what others think you are.”

John Wooden, former basketball coach and


member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
True or False?
1. Understanding your
personality type will help you
ease into a new job.
2. Introverts never have success
in the workplace because
they are too quiet.
3. Most of us depend on one
side of the brain more than
the other to learn.
Know
Yourself
• Self-prepared for those changes
• Understand own reaction
• Equip yourself for the career
• A chance to meet own needs
• World won’t fall apart if doesn’t
meet expectation Noted psychologist Carl R. Rogers claimed that self-
discovery is the basis of psychological health and success.
After treating thousands of patients, he concluded that
one central issue lies behind almost every problem
—a lack of self-knowledge.
Psychologists
(opposite characteristics):
• Introvert or extrovert
• Feeling or thinking
• Perceiving or judging
• Sensing or intuiting

When you say that someone has a great personality, what do you mean?

Profiles & Types


• Tendencies toward specific temperaments, learning
styles and thinking styles
• Right one or preferable one?
• Use your strength in work situations
• On guard on your potential weaknesses

Profiles & Types


Each personality is completely unique, but many have common
characteristics that can be grouped together.

Personality
Personality
1
Weaknesses:
Lazy, demotivated easily. She can
become stubborn, indecisive, and
even fearful.
Personality
2
Weaknesses:
Get bored easily, restless and
undisciplined.
Personality
3
Weaknesses:
Tough person to live with,
inflexible, impatient. Need to
work on people skills to become
motivator rather than a dictator.
Personality
4
Weaknesses:
Mood vary widely with emotions.
A perfectionist, difficult to let go.
Learning
Styles
Right-brained
Left-brained
Learning
Styles
Right-brained
Left-brained
CORE

Visual Auditory
• Smoother transition to your new job
• Example: remember names, duties, operations and
procedure.
• Visual learner – video recording
• Auditory – repeat names aloud, record it
• Kinesthetic learner – practice new procedures/
hands-on tutorials
• Read/ Writing – carry notebook

Applying Learning Styles


Introverts & Extroverts
Introverts Extroverts
- Be quieter - Outgoing
- Private person - Like sanguine
- Shy personality
- More comfortable - Do well in crowds
with the familiar - Enjoy meeting new
- Enjoy deep people
friendships, few good - Talkers and doers
friends - Looking for action
- Crowds make them - Thriving on activity
retreat ,
uncomfortable
• Some people simply good at faking extroversion
• To ensure success, feel responsible to have good time
• Mastered speech, verbal skills and art of strorytelling
• So, they believe they are extroverts, but in reality they
are introverts
• Ask yourself:
“When you’re with a crowd all day or night, do you
become energized?”
• If yes, you are an extrovert and you believe yourself to
be
Even though you handle yourself well in a
crowd, do you refuel only when you’re alone?

Do you need to be off by yourself to get your


head together or get your energy back?

If so, you are probably more of an introvert


who has learned to be good in a crowd

Ask yourself more


Neither introvert not extrovert is better.

You have to understand yourself to help


yourself.

Example:
Introvert can take some break time alone. Use
your time at home to refuel. Schedule alone-time
yourself. Push yourself to speak up so can get to
know your team.

Extrovert can always volunteer for speaking up,


use your social skills. Use it wisely. Monitor your
enthusiasm and share the spotlight. Be careful not
to infringe others’ time when they are talking.
Know yourself.
Be aware of your habits and skills.
Knowledge of who you are, most important steps
for professional development.
Get input from your friends, family and teachers.
Get clearer understanding of yourself.
Each weakness, the flip side might be strength.
E.g. : If you have trouble making friends (weakness),
are you a faithful friend to the ones you have
(strength)?
True. Knowing your personality type and learning
style won’t solve every problem you encounter, but
True or False? it will help you to be better prepared to handle
challenges in the workplace.
1. Understanding your
personality type will help you False. Successful companies feature both introverts
ease into a new job. and extroverts. If you’re an introvert, you’ll need to
2. Introverts never have success be sure to find time to recharge away from
in the workplace because colleagues, but also push yourself to speak up
they are too quiet. during meetings, trade shows, and in other
3. Most of us depend on one workplace situations.
side of the brain more than
the other to learn. True. Generally speaking, left-brain learners are
more logical, while right-brain learners are more
creative. There is no correct method of learning—
just the method that works best for you.
Introverts are shy and private, Extroverts are
outgoing and love crowds.
Two learning types: right-brain and left-brain
leaners.
Four temperaments: choleric, sanguine,
melancholy, phlegmatic.
Learning styles include visual, auditory and
kinesthetic.
Gaining self-knowledge will help you
succeed in the workplace, social events and all
other areas in your life.

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