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J. R. Bhatti

Author: J. R. Bhatti

• ISBN:9788131761861
  
• Price: Rs. 185.00
  
• Pages:272
  
• Imprint:Pearson Education
  
• Binding:Paperback
  
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Whether you are a student seeking admission to your dream institution, a graduate looking for a coveted job, or a manager wanting to progress in your career, you need to successfully develop and project your personality . In this concise yet comprehensive book, you will find expert guidance on all the involved in your quest. This lucidly written book explains basic concepts, provides review exercises and offers self-help tools that make the journey successful personality development projection simple, manageable and memorable one.

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Table of Content Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements About the Author PART I: Concept and Dynamics of Personality Formation and Development A Peep into the Concept of Personality Factors and Reflectors of Personality The Dynamics of Personality Formation and Development The Model of a Successful Personality Principles and Strategy of Personality Development The Role of the Family in Personality Development The Role of Educational Institutes in Personality Development A Path to Self-Development PART II: Principles and Methods of Personality Projection The Principles of Personality Projection Personality Projection Through Various Means of Communication Intricacies of Dressing Up Self-Projection in Interviews, Group Discussions and Tests Self-Projection During Telecommunication, Video Conferences and Public Addresses Self-Projection in Job Roles How to Participate in a Meeting Social Etiquettes Time Management Chapter-wise Questionnaires

Salient Features Review Exercises in each chapter Model questions and answers for self-development Practical tips included Chapter-wise questionnaires at the end

Higher Ed. and Vocation

Personality Development and Positive thinking

While you are on your path to develop your personality, do it on a positive note and you will feel a world of a difference in the new you. Here are some techniques that can help you develop your personality and experience the effect of positivity in your life. Before you read on or do anything else, be happy with your present self and embrace yourself completely. Remember you are only one of a kind.

Commit yourself
For anything you plan to do, whether it is a job, writing a book or learning a new language you have to commit yourself to it. Commitment comes in the form of the doing the thing you want t do for a long period of time or very often. So if you want to be more positive you have to commit yourself to positivity. You have to start thinking positively and banish negative thoughts. Begin with your mind. Cleanse it. Since you are reading this commit yourself to personality development since personality does not star at the end of this article, any other course or book but it is an on-going process. So keep working on yourself. Remember, ‘the road to success is always under construction’.

Focus
Focus on the activity you are doing. True yoga is being one with the activity you are into at that moment. So if you are wearing clothes pay complete attention. If you are eating, do only that. Love your food completely. If you are washing vessels, be lost in the scrubbing. If you are talking to someone be present, don’t talk absent-mindedly. While you exercise, focus on the steps. Be one with your positive thoughts.

Do not give up
Never ever give up. Things can go wrong, mistakes happen and no one is flawless. So keep going. If you fall, rise and try again. Don’t let failures be a deterrent to your success. If you stop trying you put an end to your goal. But if you keep trying there are chances you will succeed. Do it with faith and believe in yourself. More than intelligence your persistence will take you places.

Keep your ears and eyes open
Always keep your eyes and ears open. Listen to what people say. Observe whatever is around you. Never give anything or anyone invisible treatment. Being alert helps you learn and keeps you informed. So if you are having a conversation with someone the next you know that you are in touch with your surroundings and can discuss anything under the sun. If you do not know something, say so. Asking questions that shows you have interest in the discussion and are listening.

Love yourself
If you are looking forward to develop your personality, the first thing you have to do is love yourself. Accept yourself. Accept everything that’s a part of you - your skin, your body, your ideas and everything else that makes you, you. Take care of yourself. Feed yourself and have a well- nourished body. Groom yourself and be well-dressed. Don’t forget to wear a smile. Be calm and relaxed. Mediate to calm down. Keep anger under check. Exercise regularly and engage in prayer. Accomplish your work and ear compliments.

Personality development happens first from inside and then outside. So start treating your mind and body with special care. Develop positive thinking and turn into a new shining personality.

Soft Skills Coordinates

Welcome to Soft Skills Coordinates!!! We do many interesting things, mainly with soft skills. As a premier soft skills training institute, we offer candidates the coaching necessary to elevate those skills which add tangible value to their professional and personal lives. Candidates seeking employment add skills that are most desired by potential employers - for example, skills involving business communication, interviewing, problem solving, decision making, interpersonal communication and motivation necessary to work effectively in complex matrix organizations. Similarly, our corporate training courses are designed to help employed professionals rapidly adapt to performance and productivity driven work environments with confidence.

Our passion includes sharing the secrets of success with our students and celebrating their growth. There is nothing more gratifying than watching students logically analyze problems they thought were almost impossible to resolve. Candidates visit our institute to explore guidance in remedying issues that hinder their personal and professional growth. Most of the times, it takes them only a few minutes to discover the real sources of such issues. But before we explain what we do in any further detail, it is worth the time to first understand what is meant by soft skills. This term is so widely used that we prefer to use the following scenario to illustrate the point.

Soft Skills - A practical perspective

In a globalized economy, and an accompanying shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a service - and information-based one, employers place high emphasis not only on the educational qualifications of its workforce but also on the abilities of its employees to meet customer service expectations. The customer in question could even be another employee from within the organization. Let’s look at this a little closely.

At a minimum, one would expect the employee to possess superior communication skills and behavioral etiquette. The employee should have the ability to quickly understand the customer’s request and provide a satisfactory resolution. An employee gifted with the mental processes to translate a task (customer request) into simple subtasks and one who can tackle each subtask through logical actions is very likely to achieve positive results. Ideally, organizations would only want to retain such employees. If you are an employee, you will be evaluated using certain yardsticks, for example, performance and productivity, the business you generate or the number of clients you bring in for the organization. These results are easily quantifiable. But what about those attributes that are harder to quantify - your ability to connect with the customer or your ability to deal with the customer professionally? How about the goodwill you generate? These attributes or skills fall in the soft skills category. Employers (and even individuals) are fast realizing that such attributes are basic imperatives for conducting business seamlessly with customers or audiences with markedly different cultural backgrounds. After all, regardless of where your customer belongs to, you want to establish lasting business relationships.

It would not be an exaggeration to state that to evolve your personality one needs to constantly exercise soft skills. Your personality represents far more than physical appearance, confidence and communication style. It also includes key behavioral patterns such as moods, willingness to cooperate, body language, and stress-managing ability. Among the intellectual attributes, it involves the ability to identify problems and willingness to solve them.

Our Mission

At Soft Skills Coordinates - "The Personality Development Institute" - we understand how soft skills shape our personality. We coach students through a very comprehensive curriculum to equip them with the confidence and personality traits necessary to achieve results consistently. Our mission is to transform how our candidates approach and resolve a problem or situation, and prepare them with extremely essential problem analysis, decision making, and communication techniques necessary to succeed in their careers and personal life. These candidates aim higher and can compete at a global level.

Curriculum Goals

Due to the extensive corporate experience of our instructors, it is our endeavour that students at the completion of our curriculum are better placed at understanding the Do’s/Don’ts of their functional role and work environment. Through our coaching on a wide array of soft skills, our students will be more adaptable to working in a highly performance-driven and result-oriented environment. They will exceed their employer's expectations.

Our curriculum is designed for both fresh graduates as well as experienced employees. However, we feel equally confident that these courses offer valuable guidance to almost anyone who wishes to improve their communication and problem solving abilities.

Our courses are designed to meet the following goals:

• Help candidates examine their goals with greater clarity, build focus, boost

confidence

• Demystify problem comprehension and problem solving
• Explain how to solve complex problems; introduce the concept of

establishing benchmarks for success, and tracking progress against

desired results

• Prepare students with the essential protocols of effective communication.

A large component of this coaching includes classroom Q&A sessions, one-

on-one discussions and comparisons of effective and ineffective

communication habits

• Illustrate personal attributes required to get hired, remain hired, and

manage one’s career while simultaneously weathering personal or

professional challenges

• Analyze root causes of job stress, suggest remedial techniques and

pointers to improve productivity

• Leadership skills development and executive coaching
• Illustrate effective writing and public speaking methods

Located in Bangalore, India, it is our endeavor to serve students from diverse educational backgrounds.

Target Audience

Our coaching is intended for individuals with functional roles that involve problem solving, customer support, hospitality, and any other role that includes effective communication or mentoring. It is particularly beneficial for those with long-term goals of self-growth.

Organizations that would benefit directly through our training are corporations involved in R&D towards developing innovative products; companies from the service industry; brand-conscious entities with a vision to build employees' core competencies to achieve strategic goals of raising overall standards, staying competitive and improving productivity; educational institutions seeking training for faculty or students; hotels and hospitals, to name a few.

Self Improvement Ideas

Self Improvement Ideas

10 Fantastic Questions To Help You Clarify Your Goals & Dreams

More self improvement ideas.

The first step of the Smart Goals Success Formula™ is this - you must know what it is that you want.

Here are a number of fantastic questions you can use to figure out what it is that you want and so begin to create the life of your dreams.

As you go through each question you may find it useful to remember the nine key life areas we have defined - health and fitness, career and work, relationships, social life, personal development,finances, quality of life, spirituality and contribution.

Your answers,taken together, will form your vision. Once you have that you can then begin the exciting process of setting goals and making your vision become a reality.

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Read through the following ten questions:

You do not need to answer them all.

Just get a pen and paper and write down the answers to those questions that inspire you the most.


1. What is it that you want to be?

to have ? or

to do?

(You may like to download and print off the 101 Smartest Goals™ worksheet and record all your self improvement ideas in one place.


2. If you could wave a magic wand over your life right now and have whatever it is that you want what would be there?


3. If, from the moment you wake up tomorrow morning your life is just perfect, how will you know?


4. What is it that you truly love?


5. What do you want so much that it brings a big grin to your face just thinking about it?

What makes you say 'Awesome'?


6. What would your life look like if it included the things you love?


7. What would your ideal life look like if there were no limitations?


8. What would you love to do if you had all the money in the world?


9. What would you do if you knew you could not fail?


10. If you could just achieve one big goal what would it be?


When you have finished answering the above questions you should have a very clear and exciting vision for your future.

Well done.

Now score your vision for your future on a scale of 1 to 10.

It should be tremendously motivating and exciting for you.

If it's not yet a 9 or 10 stop now and take as much time as you need to really make this perfect. Remember your vision should 'wow' you - so much so that you are willing to do whatever it takes to just get out there and create it!

Once you have a clear and motivating vision for your future (all these self improvement ideas together on paper) you'll want to set yourself some really clear goals.

I hope you have enjoyed answering these powerful questions.

You'll find lots of self improvement ideas in books and on the internet but for me the most important is that you know what it is that you want from life overall.

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Practical Seduction: Some Conversation Tips For Men

It is not only men who crave sex. Women equally are desirous of it. You only have to know how to tap such an opportunity. The first conversation is a very delicate occasion and should be managed well if you want more such interactions with her. If you don’t plan the first date you may lose her forever. Below are 10 tips which will help you attract woman no matter where you are.

Initiate conversation with EVERY woman
To deal with women what you need are just the basic social skills. This is a must for each one of you. Try to initiate a conversation with as many new people as possible without being biased about anybody. Every day I am sure you must be having opportunities to start a conversation. Utilize each one of these and then you will it very easy to start conversations with women. But it is good to speak interesting. If possible speak something that will make the other person happy or laugh. Try at least 5 conversations with people whom you don’t know for around 3 months and you will soon overcome fear of talking who is a stranger to you.

Visit places where you can find women
Most guys have such a routine in their life wherein they do not come across much woman. And yet they crib about being lonely. Hence it is necessary that you should take out time once in a while to visit places where you have many opportunities to approach an attractive woman. The best places are a coffee shop in a commercial area, restaurant with woman staff or a popular shopping mall. When you visit these place you will have a lot more chances of improving your skills at approaching women.

Don’t hesitate to go out alone
Many men want a company when they visit bars or clubs only because they feel that if they are lonely they will be judged as a loser or an introvert. But people I have known till date and who have been successful with woman have been those who go out alone. My advise hence is that, this weekend try out going alone to a club – not to watch women, but just to become aware that even if you are alone no one notices that. This will help you shun your prejudice against going out alone.

Overcome you fear and inhibitions
All men, including very attractive ones, have a lot of fears when they approach a woman. Some of these are fear f being not accepted, fear of being disliked, fear to make the first touch. These aren’t unique to you but it is generic for all. And it is possible for you to control them if you desire to do so. For this don’t give too much importance to a single instance or start thinking about the long term scene when you are just beginning. Yes you may be rejected a few times, but in the process you are improving your skill and one day you will surely be successful with women.

Avoid the “Negative Trap”
What is usual reaction of men when they see a hot woman? They start thinking negative. They just become stupefied or start thinking ways not to approach her. They either start thinking about what compliment to give her, or they think her being single as an impossibility or fear that she might react unfavorably towards them. Worse, some might even consider themselves not to be worthy of the woman. Keep away from traps, because once you enter them you will build a negative aura around you which will keep on increasing with time. So don’t think much about how to start a conversation – just be normal and keep it simple.

Adhere to the tips about how to start talking
The moment you see an attractive girl in which you are interested, which you’d like to seduce – approach her within 3 seconds. Any delay more than this and you will never have the guts to approach and talk to her. Say something rather than just being silent. At worst what can happen is that she will reject you. But that will not be the end of the world to you. There will be other girls whom you can approach. So every opportunity has something from which you can learn. Keep in mind these points and just chat up with whomever you find hot.

Glide smoothly through the first moments of conversation
Most men are unaware of the fact that it is woman’s persona that needs to be handled when you are talking to her for the very first time. A woman will be always seek to block any thing from you and gain a control over the whole matter. What she wants least is things to hot up between you which she fears that might degrade her in your opinion. Even though she might find you irresistible, she will show the exact opposite and show a distaste for you. Some women become jittery when in the company of a guy whom they like. So don’t read too much into any of these indications. Patience and perseverance are two virtues you should have in ample amount in this regard.

Discover her unconventional persona
Every woman has a side that is little crazy and absolutely not expected of her. What you need to do is discover her “crazy” part of personality and then address that part. Tease her or give her nick names which wil make her realize that she can open up to you and display her crazy part. The whole idea is that she should reach a comfort level with you wherein she doesn’t shy to show her crazy persona to you. When she comes to know that you are exactly what her unconventional personality is she will be very frank to you. It is at this point when the real bonding between both of you starts setting in.

Be positive
We as humans have this tendency to jump to conclusions. If the first attempt ends up failure we think we are failures. If subsequent attempts too end up like that, we become absolute convinced that we are wasting time because we are not capable of it. You start doubting your own capabilities and it reflects in your personality too. Many men who have failed at a few attempts in conversing with women that it is something terribly wrong in their own nature that is preventing them from being with women. They write themselves off. But remember that failures are the stepping stones to success. So cultivate an attitude wherein you believe that you have reached very close to success and will achieve your goal soon. Just try out this and I guarantee you that you will be pleasantly surprised at the results

Plan your strategy and practice it
If you are starting to converse with women, you should go over your plans and carefully rehearse before the actual D day. Plan every minute detail as to what you are going to talk and her possible reactions and your own responses to them. Take all your time in strategizing and rehearsing it. Also plan the tone of your voice and the body language you will show her. Hope for the best but also plan for worst scenario. This will give you confidence. So now the implementation will throw no surprises to you.

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12 steps to improve your personality

Personality is defined as the cumulative traits in human character. It is very surprising to note that even the best looking person can have an ugly personality. Now-a-days personality development is the principal topic in the classes of communication management. Youth of our society have great interest in knowing things about personality development because they carry the notion that key to their success lies in improving the aspects of personality.

Failure of personality results in frustration. When you fail to communicate about the positive sides of your personality, it results in frustration. Frustration is the natural outcome of the failure of your personality.

Personality consists of your clothing, behavior, etiquette and amicable communication with others. It is helpful in expressing your hidden talents. You may be gifted but if your personality is not animated, the outcome will be disappointing for all.

A powerful personality attracts others like magnet. It creates a space for you in every one’s heart.

12 steps to improve your personality

• Your dressing sense – Make sure you wear clothes fitting with the occasions. Suitable clothing fitting with the demands of occasions draws interest of people in you. A well-dressed person is liked by all.
• Be gentle and soft spoken- Your voice is the mirror of your personality. Apply gentleness in it and avoid saying rude things. Appreciate the good things in other people. Your smiling mien is the first step to success. Keep your balance when you speak. Always steer clear of controversy. Be very selective with your words. This will bring appreciation from others.
• Appreciate and praise others- While you appreciate others, it shows your good nature. In case you find good qualities in others, praise the persons without getting jealous. Encourage and congratulate others when you find they have done something really good. Appreciation and praise are the natural ways to create your position in the lives of people you love.
• Hide your pride and egotism- Be cautious in hiding your pride and ego while you interact with others. Such evil traits naturally become transparent, while you rise in self-actualization. Keep your inner consciousness for this alive.
• Avoid expressing envy and bitter criticism- Envy is the extreme end of admiration. So better if you admire people without getting envious. When you are jealous and angry, you ultimately damage your personality. Control your envy with out letting it out in your nature.
• Stay away from deceptiveness, lies and cheating- Deceptiveness and other immoralities are not qualities of diplomacy. These qualities rather harm you without boosting up the prospects of your life. In the long run, you get reviled and defamed.
• Be positive in your thoughts- Thoughts are the real foundations of your personality. Keep the thoughts positive and nature cordial. There are qualified individuals who do not get acclaimed for their talents because of negative thoughts. Healthy mentality and positive thoughts make your personality successful.
• Keep away anger and irritation- Anger and irritation are the natural barriers in your personality for success. Unless you control such things, these become ingrained in your nature. Anger and irritation spoil relationships with others.
• Serve and help others if you can- For social recognition, serving and helping the people in need are also a major step towards making your personality popular. It shows your sense of undertaking important responsibilities for the sake of social causes. Helping the poor, down trodden and needy human beings create your favorable image in the society.
• Be punctual- Punctuality is helpful for a successful personality. It makes you one extra-ordinary human-being among others. You get noticed due to your promptness
• Be mindful about the worth of time- Be mindful of the fact that time is money. Wasting time in unnecessary activities devalue your personality to a greater extent. Learn to make use of every bit of time in your hand.
• Be conscious about your self- Understand your own self. Stay away from dropping names about people you know and your contacts. Your talent and merits can only bring you recognition and make you popular.
• Adopt the good qualities from others- Make your best efforts to learn from others. Listen patiently to the words of worthy people to discover the content of life-building-material in it. Such thing is useful in making your personality popular.

leadership development exercises and games

leadership development exercises and games

The are various games and exercises on the free team building games section that work well for demonstrating, assessing and developing leadership. See particularly the 'leading or managing' exercise, which is a flexible activity for illustrating the differences between managing and leading. As regards leadership exercises for experiential development of leadership abilities, focus on the leadership challenge of leading and managing a team - the task itself is secondary - so virtually any team game is suitable provided you give each leader a team of four or more people to lead. The more people, the bigger the test of leadership. You do not need a complicated exercise to create a leadership challenge. The leadership challenge is produced by having to organise, plan and motivate a team of people. In fact, if the task is too complex it will obscure the team leadership issues, by distracting from or hampering leadership skills and qualities. For leadership development choose exercises that includes an enjoyable and achievable challenge - even very basic games like newspaper towers will be a good test of leadership if you create teams of four or more for the leader to lead. Use games that you feel will produce variety, fun and a mixture of activities. The round tables exercise is particularly suitable to test and develop leadership skills. Choose a mixture of exercises which encourage the leaders think about using a different approach, and different people's strengths, for each challenge.