interpersonal skills. journey into self awareness

1. Students of :

2. INTERPERSONAL SKILL
TOPIC : JOURNEY INTO SELF AWARENESS

5. “There are three things very hard: Steel, a
diamond, and to know ones' self.”

6. Self awareness is knowing:
motivations
preferences
personality
How these factors influence your:
 judgment
Decisions
interactions with other people .

7. Understanding
yourself in relation
to others.
Increasing
productivity.
Managing
others
effectively.
Understanding
the value of
diversity.
Developing &
implementing a sound
self-improvement
program.
Setting
appropriate
life & career
goals.
Developing
relationships
with others.

8. Self
analysis
Self
disclosure.
Diverse
experience.
Other’s
Perception.

9. Behavior
Perceptions.
Personality
Attitudes

10.  Behavior is a way in
which we conduct
ourselves-the way in
which we act.

11. Motivation
Modes of
thinking
Modes of acting
Modes of
interacting

12. it describes stable set of
Tendencies
Characteristics
temperaments
Formed by inheritance and social cultural
factors

13. Determines that
How we interact or react to verious situations
Describes an individual’s behavior
examples

15. Represent degree
or
• social
• antisocial
or
• active
• inactive
or
• talkative
• quiet
Measure degree
or
• friendly
• reserved
or
• Good natured
• moody
or
• flexible
• inflexible

16. or
• consistent
• inconsistent
or
• Dependable
• inconsistent

17. measure the degree People are interests in
broadening their horizons
learning new things
Going to new places

19. is a tendency to adjust our behavior
relative to the changing demands of
social situations.

20. We can assess
our own
behaviors &
attitudes
Diagnose which
elements we are
satisfied with
Develop plans
for addressing
those aspects we
want to change.

21. High Self Monitors:
solely concerned with what other think
Low Self Monitors:
who is less concerned with how other people
perceive them.

22. • In an organizational setting, it is best to avoid the
extremes.
• Always try to please everyone.

23. •person feels about
something – a person, a
place, a situation or an
idea.
Attitude
thoughts and
predisposition to act
towards some object in
the environment.
The emotions we choose
to act on determine our
attitude

24. POSITIVE ATTITUDE:
If someone has good
feelings.
NEGATIVE ATTITUDE:
If someone has bad
feelings.

25. Parents
Teachers
Friends
Society
Mass
communication

26. ROLE OF ATTITUDE
Good impact on professional and
personal relationships.
people influenced by our thoughts and
feelings.
As managers, to recognize that our
employees are affected by the attitude.

27. HOW TO BUILD POSITIVE ATTITUDE

28.  Never compare
yourself with others.
 Keep your thought
positive.

29.  Make friends.
 Set goals ad work
hard to achieve them.

30.  Smile-Keep a beautiful smile.

32. means thinking
gather sensory information
and assign meaning to it
is person specific
e.g., two friends are facing the same situation but
perception is different.

34. Reality: Input is same.
5 senses: Sensory Information.
Brain has already existing
information.
Match or contrast the
information.
Output is different.

35. perception may
not always be
consistent with
reality.
Internal factors
External factors
Important to be
in touch with
our perception
and others’ too.
Our perceptions
are influenced
by many factors
i.e.,

37. Factors Influencing Perception

39. Making
assumptions.
Based on
general
judgments
demographic
factors
convenient
but faulty
don’t rely on a
stereotype
check your
own
perceptions

41. Interpreting
information
Rather than tuning
out information with
you disagree , is best
to keep an open mind.
Internet, news
channels, cell phones,
e-mails, and fax
machines are sources
of providing
information
discarding
information
filter and absorb only
those information
which we can handle
easily

42. Projection:
 Developed by Dr. Sigmund
Freud.
 A psychological phenomenon.
 A defense mechanism.

43. DEFINITION:
Ascribing to others one's
 Attitudes.
 Characteristics
 Shortcomings.

44. Freudian projection
Dr. Freud believed that people
used psychological projection to
reduce their own stress or
feelings of guilt.

45. Effects of Projection:
It denies
unique
ideas
It influence
decision
making.
It creates
anxiety ad
distress

46. EXAMPLE:
Someone who lies or cheat might
take the assumption that’s
everyone lie or cheat.

47. EXPECTATION:
Forming a opinion
about how:
Situation develop
Person act.
Think.
feel.

48. EFFECTS OF EXPECTATION:
we tend to have a
harder time
making perception.
help us organize
and interpret novel
information in our
environment.

49. Understanding Expectation:
We can able
to approach
situation
Keep In
view actual
experience
Form our
own
opinions

50. EXAMPLE
While proof-reading paper read
it backwards .

51. INTEREST:
Base on activities which are:
Likeable
Appealing
Joyful
Meaningful to us.

52. Go Beyond What Interest you?
Will
broaden
oneself.
Understands
other’s
thinking
Will be able
to compete
Will help us
to e good
manager

53. EXAMPLE:
While buying a new house we see
a sign board In front of houses
that previously would have gone
unnoticed

54. ATTRIBUTION THEORY
Heider (1958) was
the first to propose
a psychological
theory of
attribution.
how individuals
interpret events and
how this relates to
their thinking and
behavior.
It examines what
information is
gathered and how it
is combined to form
a causal judgment

55. TYPES OF ATTRIBUTION
INTERAL ATTRIBUTION:
The behavior of others we look for such
as personality traits.
EXTERNAL ATTRIBUTION:
When we try to explain our own behavior .
Such as situational or environment.

56. Other’s perceptions
How other’s view
us.
The social mirror
is designed to
help you learn
about yourself.
If the statement is not a
reflection of reality, then
work hard to dispel this
image of you in your own
mind.
Social mirror.
People adopt a view of
ourselves based on other
people’s view.
The social mirror
can be wrong or
only partially
correct.

57. Self disclosure
It is a key factor in improving our
self awareness.
Sharing your thoughts, ideas
and feelings with others.
Through verbalizing our
perception, we verify our own
beliefs, affirm our self concept and
validate data received from an
objective resource.
People can listen to your
concerns and give you feedback.

58. Diverse Experience
Acquiring multiple
experiences in diverse
situations and with diverse
others.
As we encounter new situation,
we use skills and acquire new
ones, meet people and develop
friendships and learn first hand
about things we might have only
read about.
Work experience are ways to
broaden our experience
base.
Being open to new experiences
broadens our horizons.