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INTERPERSONAL
SKILLS
SELF-------------
SELF
AWARENESS
There are three things
extremely hard: steel,
a diamond, and to
know one’s self
Self-awareness is knowing your
motivations,preferences and
personality and understanding
how these influence your
judgement,decisions and
interaction with other people
Self-awareness is an essential skill for
developing personally and professionally. It
helps:
1.Capitalize on your strengths
2.Compensate for your limitations
Write on a sheet of paper adjectives
that you wish could describe your
personality. Identify some ways in
which you could make changes to
Incorporate these qualities into your
interaction with others.
What do you think are the qualities of
successful people?
GOAL SETTING
The whole world
steps aside for the
man who knows
where he is going.
Goal setting is a means of
identifying our work/life
priorities and developing strategies
for achieving
Personal and professional objectives
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Being realistic
Being positive
Starting small
Taking full responsibility
Preserving
Take a minute and write your definition of
personal satisfaction
1. Which behaviours are needed to
achieve this satisfaction?
2. What will bring you enjoyment or
fulfillment?
3. What will you need to accomplish in
order to say you are a success in life?
‘THIS IS YOUR LIFE’:A personal goalsetting Exercise
Family Member’s Speech
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Close friend’s speech
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Colleague’s speech
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Religious representative’s speech
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Is there a common thread or theme? Write a
caption that would summarise your life principle
ETHICS
The things that will destroy us
are: politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without
character; business without
morality; science without
humanity; and worship
without sacrifice.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Six rules of ethical thinking
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Consider other’s well
being
Think of yourself as a
member of
community,not as an
isolated person
An action may be
legal but
unethical.Don’t only
depend on law
You affect a larger
entity beyond you and
your immediate circle
 Obey
moral
guidelines by
which you have
agreed to live
 Think objectively.Be
sure your action is
truly ethical and
not rationalised
self-interest
ETHICS TEST
 The
test of
‘common sense’
 The ‘light of the
day’ approach
 The
test of the
‘one’s best self’
 The test of
‘purified idea’
Ethical stance
 Calling
in to work to say you are sick when
you really are not.
 Taking office supplies home for personal
use.
 Surfing the net on company time
 Falsifying the number of hours one has
worked.
 Long distance calls on business lines.
Managing others’impressions
of you
 Be
punctual
 Dress appropriately
 Flatter legitimately
 Have a good sense of humour
 Be friendly and approachable
 Make friends and value all contacts
TIME & SELF
MANAGEMENT
Don't say you don't have
enough time. You have
exactly the same number of
hours per day that were
given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa,
Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert
Einstein."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How to manage time
 Plan
and
prioritise
 Get in the habit
of preparing ‘to
do’lists
 Find your
optimal working
time
 Prioritise
tasks by
level of
importance
 Organise
 Delegate
DEGREE TO WHICH I DO THESE :
Typical time wasters
High
Medium
Low
Procrastination
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Disorganization
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Perfectionism
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Visitors and Interruptions
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5
Telephone ,e-mail, Internet
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4
5
Daydreaming & distractions
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4
5
Lack of focus or interest
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4
5
Doing too many tasks at once
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Accepting too much work
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5
Paperwork and administrative
tasks
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4
5
Poorly planned meetings
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4
5
Lack of necessary resources
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2
3
4
5
Failure to use technology
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5
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
 Is
a type of social intelligence that
involves the ability to monitor one’s own
and others’ emotions, to discriminate
among them, and to use the information
to guide one’s thinking and actions
Six fundamentals for achieving
emotional competency
 Self-awareness
 Empathy
 Self-regulation
 Social
 Motivation
skills
 Group work skills
Hints for overcoming fear of
failure
 Look
at failure as an event
 Remind yourself that everyone
experiences failure
 Look for why and find a solution
 Associate with positive people
 Develop the habit of ‘self-talk’.
 Take one step at a time; keep moving
forward
Teamwork
We are a pack animal. From
earliest times we have used
the strength of the group to
overcome the weakness of
the individual. And that
applies as much to business
as to sport
Tips for managing outstanding
results
 Care
about the people you work with
 Don’t worry about who gets the credit
 Respect individual differences
 Subordinate yourself to a higher purpose
CONFLICT
MANAGEMENT
If you are distressed by anything
external, the pain is not due to
the thing itself, but to your own
estimate of it; and this you have
the power to revoke at any
moment
Sources of interpersonal
Conflicts
Differences in
Goals
 Miscommunication
 Differing
attitudes,values
and perceptions
 Style Differences
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Conflict Prevention
 Team-building
 Diversity
 Open
awareness
Communication
 Conflict
management
training
 Managing
other’s
expectations
 Focusing on others
first
ACTIVITY
Non-Verbal Role-Play
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In small groups, create a role-play involving
only body-language with no talking. Pick a
scene and characters.
Based on the body language,what was the
scene depicting?
What was the relationship of the members to
each other?
What were the personalities of the
members?
What issues were affecting the group?
CREATIVITY
“Each moment of
our life, we either
invoke or destroy our
dreams.”
-Stuart Wilde
Supporting or stimulating
creativity
IDEA KILLERS
 We
tried it before
 That’s not my job
 That’s not how we
do things here
 That’ll never work
IDEA GROWERS
 Who
else has a
suggestion?
 I don’t know much
about that.How
about you?
Increasing individual creativity
 Do
creative exercises, challenge your
mind
 Learn your language, or a new one
 Keep an open mind
 Keep a journal
 Develop confidence in your senses
 Expose yourself to new perspectives