1. Personality Development
By Mrs. McCann
Principles of Human Services

2. Your Personality
Personality is the combination of characteristics that makes you different from every other person
personality cannot be summed with one word- like shy or aggressive

3. 3 Components of personality
emotional traits
social traits
intellectual traits

4. What affects your personality?
These 3 components are affected by two things: heredity and environment.

5. Changing Personality
Just as you are growing physically now, you can grow or shape your personality as well.
You can build the personality you want to have.

6. Changing Personality
How you define yourself is your “Self Concept” or “Identity.”
Self-concept is the system of beliefs, attitudes and opinions that each person holds to be true about his or her personal existence.

7. Self Concept Is composed of: Our value as a person Our purpose in life
Our place in the world
Our strengths and weaknesses
How we relate to others
Our independence and ability to stand on our own feet.

8. High
People with high levels of self-concept tend to be more confident, motivated and sure of themselves. They are less fearful of failure and are able to overcome setbacks.

9. Low
People with low levels of self-concept may feel unhappy, insecure, lack confidence and struggle with depression. They are more fearful of failure and tend to stumble at most challenges.

10. Confusion?
When you know who you are and what you are, you know how to act. Without a clear idea of whom and what you are, then a basis for your actions is missing. You might find yourself in situations where you are confused about what to do. Many of the successes and failures that people experience in life are closely related to the way people learn to view themselves and their relationships to others.

11. Developing a Positive Self Concept
Is one of the objectives of adolescence
You must focus on your strengths rather than your weaknesses helps you to develop the proper perspective.
strengths
not
weaknesses

12. Steps to developing a positive self concept
Create an honest list of things to do to develop a more positive view of yourself
Learn to accept praise and compliments
Focus on your strengths and talents
Accept yourself as you are

13. Learn from what you do (mistakes are opportunities to see how you can do things differently in the future.)
Use your strength to help others
Take responsibility for your own life

14. Your Potential Everyone has potential
It is the capability to become something more than you are right now.
We each have strengths that can be developed further.

15. Everyone’s personal challenge is to identify these strengths and to use them.
You can and probably will get sidetracked along the way, but how close you come to reaching your potential is up to you.
When you work toward
your potential, you aim for
personal development!

16. Your Assignment
List an area you wish to make a personality adjustment in.
Create a list of at least 4 steps you could follow to achieve the change you identified.
List 4 skills that you possess.
Next to each skill briefly identify a way that you could improve the skill to help fulfill your potential.
Explain how the confidence of someone with high self-esteem be misinterpreted?
Describe how a person can overcome problems caused by their environment.