Enhancing Personal Effectiveness

Sandip Das
 Role

Responsibility

Tasks & Activities

Actions & Behaviour

Inner Characteristics
Determinants of our Actions and Behaviour

Paradigm

Attitude Competence
 Goal Orientation

• Ownership
• Attention
• Intensity
• Persistence
• Commitment
• Passion
CHARACTER COMPETENCE
 Integrity  Technical skills
 Maturity  Qualifications
 Abundance Mentality  Knowledge
 Interdependency  Experience

Wisdom
 Urgent Not Urgent
I II
 Preparation
 Crises  Prevention
Important  Pressing Problems  Learning
 Deadline-driven  Developing self and
projects, meetings others
 Introspection

III IV
Trivia,
busywork
Interruptions
Not Time wasters
Some mail, phone
Important Escape activities
Some meetings
Junk Mail, TV
Popular activities
Facing Challenges

Circle of
Influence

Circle of Concern
Learning Styles

Activist Reflector

Pragmatist Theorist
 Personal Effectiveness
Channelize ones energies for the overall benefit of
the organization.

Behaviour Indicator of the individual

• Manages time effectively by prioritizing and organizing activities
• Ready to learn
• Displays passion and commitment to work
• Maintains calm and composure at workplace
 Role

Responsibility

Tasks & Activities

Actions & Behaviour

Inner Characteristics

Inner Reengineering
 Accumulated
Information and
Experiences

Conscious Self

Index of
Feelings
Situation/
Event/
Stimulus
Index of
Fact

Human beings function as Integrated Organism with

Fragmented Consciousness
 Personal Competence

 Self-Awareness
 Self-Regulation

 Self-Motivation
There is nothing noble about being
superior to some other person.
True nobility lies in being
superior to Our Former Self.
Let today be the First day for
the rest of our life

Thank You
Some Traits Essential Effectiveness
• Leading from the Front
• Owning Responsibility
• Tenacity
• Communication
• Sensitivity to Environment
• Understanding Interdependence
• Composure and Maturity
• Empathy
• Trustworthiness
 Stages of Experience

 Unconscious Inexperience
 Conscious Inexperience
 Conscious Experience
 Unconscious Experience
Self-Awareness

 Emotional Awareness
 Accurate Self-Assessment

 Self-Confidence
Self-Regulation
 Self Control
 Trustworthiness
 Conscientiousness
 Adaptability
 Innovation
 Self-Motivation

 Achievement Drive
 Commitment
 Initiative
 Optimism
 Freedom of Response
Freedom
To
Stimulus Choose Response

Self-
Awareness
Independent
Will
Imagination Conscience
 Step 1: Develop Purpose
• Goal for each Role
• Creative Exploration of End State
• Responsible Choice of Means

Purpose of Life is “a Life of Purpose”

 Step 2: Constancy of Purpose

• Creative Envisioning
– Start with the end state
– Develop a creative script
– Emotionally and thoughtfully run through the process
• Positive Suggestions
– Have positively framed present tense statements in line with
purpose and repeat regularly
– Fill the verbalization with emotion and visualization
– Write the statements
• Creative Commitment
– Writing the purpose
– Share the purpose for social pressure
– Specify bonus and penalty
 Step 3: Walk the Path
• Approach Obstacles Head-on
• Identify the obstacles on the way to attain the purpose
• Emotionally feel confident of overcoming the same
• Have sufficient home-work before acting
• Visualize the process and success
• Act on the first instance without any lame excuse
• Perform the Act Repetitively
• Consciously ensure performing the chosen approach each
time and every time
• Refrain from the temptation of finding excuse for skipping the
act/ approach
• Remain Mentally Available while performing the Act at least
for 21 days till this becomes a habit
• Enjoy the Process and Celebrate the Success
• Enjoy the process with full emotional involvement
• Celebrate on every occasion of successfully performing the act