The document discusses key concepts of personal development including emotional intelligence and equity theory. It notes that personal development starts with self-awareness and emotional intelligence involves knowing, managing, and recognizing emotions in oneself and others. It also describes characteristics of emotionally intelligent people and strategies to restore equity or balance when people feel unequal outcomes compared to their efforts. Maintaining balance both personally and professionally is emphasized as crucial to success.
Funny comment Thank you all for being here I really enjoy the opportunity to speak about leadership and sincerely appreciate you all coming especially in this late hour and special thanks to…..and PEAF….for inviting me. Leadership is something I truly enjoy speaking about because you all are here because you endeavor to be leaders and you can’t make the world a better place until you endeavor to make yourself….a better person. And your endeavor to become leaders means that you seek to be a better person not just in your professional lives but in your personal lives as well because leadership is a huge part of many aspect of our lives isn’t it? Aren’t we leaders to our children, to our employees, to our ourselves??? How many of you have children? And of those of you who have children how many of you think that your role as a parent is to “lead” your child through to adulthood and really though life isn’t it? Leadership isn’t just one particular quality its many many things. It has no one particular definition except that which is listed in the dictionary but you can’t pinpoint one or two or three characteristics that define leadership can you? If you have a 3 year old for example who falls down on the sidewalk and scrapes his knee and cries, you have a certain response. Would you respond the same way to your 13 year old who falls down and scrapes his knee and go over cradle him and…If your 3 or 4 year old comes home from school one day after hearing someone say something not so nice and says to you screw you mommy, would you respond the same way to your 16 year old who comes home one day and says mom….And that’s just what leadership is, having that understanding about relativity and knowing how to handle a particular situation based on the given circumstances and based on who you are dealing with at the given moment. We hear as young children as we are raised that we should treat everyone the same. Be fair and equal. This is the root cause of failures of leadership you see. Can we apply that same philosophy in our adult lives with the people we supervise or work with. Do we treat everyone the same way, all of the time know matter what the issue is? No! The answer is we treat everyone….fairly but not necessarily the same. Are all of our employees the same? Do they all have the same molds, same personalities, same needs, same wants, same desires? No so our response can’t be the same.
In preparing for this presentation I got on the good old internet and did a quick search for “personal development”….lots of junk!!!! Realized its really simple…..!
Recognizing a feeling as it happens Self control and adaptability Empathy and social awareness Conflict management, developing others building bonds, teamwork
Tell story of Mary
What is perception? Reality! What do we compare in our professional lives? Ourselves to…? Our pay…our…
Use promotional exams as example (people who don’t do well) or people who say, oh I’m just taking it for the hell of it… or I didn’t study…
Radical democrat/republican Radical religions Radical health nuts
We all view the world through a picture window. This is the window in our lives through which we see the world around us and through which we respond. How well we see through that window is based on our life experiences. Over time it can be very clear, a little dirty, or rather filthy. Give it a cleaning if it needs it!