Personal development is looking inward and focusing on ways to better yourself. Personal development increases your self-awareness, your self-esteem, increases your skills, and fulfills your aspirations.

1. PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
PRESENTED BY
RUTH PETERS
HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT

3. TABLE OF CONTENT
 What is personal Development Skills.
 Phases of Personal Development Skills.
 Why is personal Development Skills Important.
 Benefits of Personal Development Skills.
 Examples of personal Development skills.
 How to Improve your Personal Development
Skills.
 How to Improve your Personal Development
skills at work.
 How to create a Personal Development plan.

4.  If you imagine that the obstacles
in your way are big walls, then
personal development is a way to
break these walls and clear the
space in front of you so that you
can go through your life easier
 IF YOU THINK THAT YOU
DON’T HAVE TO WORK ON
YOURSELF, THEN YOU
DEFINITELY DO NEED TO!

5. WHAT IS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ?
 It is a conscious process of improving oneself in various aspects of life, a constant
pursuit of growth and developing skills.
 It’s a way to better understand your unique personalities, potentials, strength &
weakness.
 Activities that develop a person capabilities and potentials, build human capital,
facilitate employability and enhance quality of Life.
 It is a process of improving, accessing your life goals and values, building skills
and qualities to reach your potential.

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7. PHASES OF PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

8. PHASES OF PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
 1)Self-discovery : This is a process of gaining a
deep understanding of your own self, character,
needs, value and purpose in life. This allows an
individual to be more aware of their dreams
potentials, hope and interest.
 2)Self-development : consciously improving
yourself in various aspects of your life. it is a
conscious pursuit of personal growth by improving
personal skills, competencies, talent and
knowledge in other to seek self fulfillment and
proactively reach your fullest potential.

9. 3)Self-mastery : Ability to
recognize ,understand , control
and make the most out of your
physical, mental, emotional,
spiritual self. This is achieved
through thorough awareness,
understanding and control over
your thoughts, actions and
emotions.
4)Self-Actualization : Seeking
personal growth through peak
experiences in other to realize
your fullest potential and
reach self fulfillment.

10. WHY IS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
IMPORTANT
Personal Development can help you in all
areas of your life. It can help you at work,
change your attitude towards work, and
therefore, open new doors for
advancement.
Personal development skills are important
because they allow you to create strategic
and tactical plans for personal and
professional growth towards your goals.

11. BENEFIT OF SELF DEVELOPMENT
 Motivation : “where there is a will
there is a way.” With strong personal
development skill, you develop the
necessary will. The most successful
people have one thing common in them
and that is they are self-motivated. They
motivate and empower themselves with
the right beliefs and thoughts.
 Empowerment :One of the most
important and key benefits of
personal development is claiming
back to your empowerment.
People are empowered to their
natural creative selves to perform
better than ever. It will help you
achieve your highest potential
while employing your inner
resources

12.  Improved Focus : With personal
development, comes improved focus
and effectiveness. As your personal
development improves, you will be
very much clearer on how to prioritize
your tasks and do it effectively with the
optimal results. You will be able to
figure out how to do particular tasks
easily with the available resources.
 Positive Attitude : positive
attitude is everything in life. Your
attitude will make a big
difference between your success
and failure, losing and happiness.
Great achievers are those who
figure out their inner resources
and manage it in a variety of
situations.

13. How to improve your personal development skills
1. Overcome your fears. Fear can prevent you from growing and progressing. If you
are afraid of public speaking, for instance, take a class or join a group that helps
people become better public speakers.
2. Read. Reading can expand your knowledge and vocabulary and keep you informed.
It can also stimulate your mind and can improve your critical thinking skills. Try setting a
goal to read at least one educational or motivational article a day, or one book a month.

14. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SKILLS IN
THE WORKPLACE
 Be an active listener.
 Organize your time, work
and materials
 Believe in yourself.
 Be committed to and
passionate about your job.
 Honesty.

16. Creating a personal development plan is not particularly complicated, although it
will require a few specific steps.
We have outlined these below
 Vision
 Determine the Necessary Skills
 Identify the Starting Position
 Start with Just One Skill
 Set Deadlines

17.  VISION : Begin the planning with an idea of what
you want to achieve. What is the ultimate goal of
the plan?
 Determine the Necessary Skills : it is necessary
to determine what skills are necessary to achieve
that ultimate goal.
 Identify the Starting Position : Once you have an
idea of what skills are necessary to achieve a
particular goal or outcome, it’s necessary to
determine where to start from in terms of existing
skills, aptitudes, and capabilities.
 Start with Just One Skill : It is tempting to begin
the journey by focusing on developing several
skills at once instead, identify one core skill and
focus on mastering that one then move on to
another.
 Set Deadlines :A personal development plan is all
well and good but without deadlines, there may be
no impetus to move forward. In some situations,
that is fine, such as when you must master
complex ideas or complicated skill combinations.
However, even in these situations, some form of
time constraint helps encourage you to keep
moving. It creates tension or a sense of urgency
that helps you prioritize learning and development.

18. QUESTIONS
 AM I MAXIMIZING MY TALENT ?
 DO I LET MY MISTAKES DEFINE ME ?
 DO I LOVE WHAT I DO?
 WHO’S LIFE AM I LIVING?