This course discusses professional development, applied ethics, and personality development. It describes the skills, knowledge, and performance needed for students to become professionals through understanding ways to present themselves in business settings like meetings, networking, and proposals. Professional development involves maintaining credentials through education and learning, while applied ethics examines ethical issues in different fields like business. Personality development can help individuals reduce stress, have a positive attitude, and make a strong impression. The document outlines several personality traits and provides ways to build self-confidence.

1. Introduction to Professional
Development and Applied Ethics
Presented by
DR RHEA LOWELLA S. FISER, RPsy,RPm,CSIOP

2. Professional Development and Applied
Ethics
This course describes the skills, knowledge, and performance
outcomes required to develop the ability of students to become
professionals in their field by understanding the ideas of improving
one’s personality and ways on how they are going to be valued in the
business industry by means of presenting their ideas like company
meetings, professional networking, interviews and through proposals
of services considering the proper collaboration to their associates
and portraying professional business.

3. - an improvement in all
spheres of an individual’s
life, be it with friends, in
the office or in any other
environment.
IMPORTANCE:
Personality development grooms an individual and helps him
make a mark of his/her own
Personality development goes a long way in reducing stress and
conflicts.
Personality development helps you develop a positive attitude in
life.
What is Personality Development?

4. What is Professional Development?
Professional development is learning
to earn or maintain professional
credentials such as academic degrees
to formal coursework, attending
conferences, and informal learning
opportunities situated in practice.
It has been described as intensive
and collaborative, ideally
incorporating an evaluative stage.

5. What is Professional Development?
It also teaches writing skills
and emphasized verbal
communication and
preparation of plans that
require them to research
career options and company
potentials and stability to
develop a strong and
effective career pathway.

6. What is Applied Ethics?
Applied ethics
is the actual
application of
ethical theory for
the purpose of
choosing an ethical
action in a given
issue.

7. What is Applied Ethics?
Applied ethics is usually divided into
various fields.
A. Business ethics discusses
ethical behavior in the corporate
world,
B. Professional ethics refers

8. - it’s who we are.
Our personalities
determine how we act
and react, as well as
how we interact with
and respond to the
world.
Parents
Environment
Genetics
Culture
Friends
Work
What is Personality?

9. - derived from the Latin
word ‘persona’ meaning
‘mask’.
- The relatively stable
feelings, thoughts, and
behavioural patterns a
person has.
If personality is
stable, does
this mean that
it does not
It does. Changes occur.

11. Openness
- the degree to which a person is curious, original,
intellectual, creative, and open to new ideas
People high in openness are highly motivated to learn new
skills, and they do well in training settings
They also have an advantage when they enter into a new
organization. Their open-mindedness leads them to seek a lot
of information and feedback about how they are doing and to
build relationships, which leads to quicker adjustment to the
new job.

12. Conscientiousness
- the degree to which a person is
organized, systematic, punctual,
achievement oriented, and
dependable
Conscientiousness is the one personality
trait that uniformly predicts how high a person’s
performance will be, across a variety of
occupations and jobs.
In addition to their high performance,
conscientious people have higher levels of
motivation to perform, lower levels of turnover,
lower levels of absenteeism, and higher levels of
safety performance at work.

13. Extraversion
- the degree to which a person is outgoing,
talkative, and sociable, and enjoys being in
social situations
Extraverts do well in social
situations, and as a result they
tend to be effective in job
interviews.
They have an easier time than
introverts when adjusting to a
new job. They actively seek
information and feedback, and
build effective relationships,
which helps with their
adjustment.

14. Agreeableness
- The degree to which a person is nice, tolerant, sensitive,
trusting, kind, and warm.
People who are high in agreeableness are likeable people who get
along with others. Not surprisingly, agreeable people help others
at work consistently, and this helping behavior is not dependent
on being in a good mood.
They are also less likely to retaliate when other people treat them
unfairly.

15. Neuroticism
- the degree to which a person is
anxious, irritable, aggressive,
temperamental, and moody
These people have a tendency to
have emotional adjustment
problems and experience stress
and depression on a habitual basis.
People very high in neuroticism
experience a number of problems
at work.

16. Values and Attitudes
- refer to stable life goals that people have,
reflecting what is most important to them
- Broad preferences concerning appropriate
courses of action or outcomes
The values that are important to people tend
to affect the types of decisions they make, how
they perceive their environment, and their
actual behaviors.

17. Early family experiences are important
influences over the dominant values.
Values of a generation also change and evolve
in response to the historical context that the
generation grows up in.
The values a person holds will affect his or her
employment.

18. Attitude
- A predisposition to respond in a
positive or negative way to
someone or something in one’s
environment
- Influences by values and are
acquired from the same sources
as values
- Focus on specific people or
objects, whereas values have a
more general focus and are
more stable than attitude

20. Self-esteem
- the degree to which a
person has overall positive
feelings about his or herself
People with high self-
esteem view themselves in
a positive light, are
confident, and respect
themselves.
On the other hand, people
with low self-esteem
experience high levels of
self-doubt and question
their self-worth.

22. Self-Efficacy
- a belief that one can perform a specific task
successfully
.
Self-efficacy is different from other
personality traits in that it is job
specific.
People with high self-efficacy
setting higher goals for
themselves and being more
committed to these goals,
whereas people with low self-
efficacy tend to procrastinate.

24. Ways to Build Your Self-Confidence
• Take a self-inventory. (self-assessment)

25. Ways to Build Your Self-Confidence
• Set manageable goals.

26. Ways to Build Your Self-Confidence
• Find a mentor.

27. Ways to Build Your Self-Confidence
• Don’t judge yourself by your failures.

28. Ways to Build Your Self-Confidence
• Until you can feel confident, be sure to act
confident.

29. Ways to Build Your Self-Confidence
• Know when to
ignore negative
advice.

30. References:
• http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psyc
h101/personality/context.html
• http://www.personalitydevelopment.org/what
-is-personality-development-an-introduction-
to-personality-development.html
• http://managementstudyguide.com/importan
ce-of-personality-development.htm