1. Personal Development

2. Objectives
This session is an introduction to personal
development.
At the end of this session, participants should
have a clear understanding of the following
aspects of personal development:
•Leadership
•Time Management
•Talent Development
•Presentation / Public Speaking Skills
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3. What is Personal Development?
Personal development includes activities that improve
awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build
human capital and facilitates employability, enhance quality
of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and
aspirations. – Wikipedia
Other source maybe?
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4. Reasons for Personal Development?
• Improving self awareness and knowledge
• Rebuilding or renewing identity
• Improving your strengths or talents
• Improving wealth
• Spiritual development
• Identifying or improving your potential
• Increasing your chances of getting a job (career advancement)
• Fulfilling your dreams or aspirations
• Pursuing freedom; Financial, emotional, etc
• Improving social abilities
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5. Whose Responsibility is it?
Type of Development Responsibility
Physical Development God / Parents
Intellectual Development Teachers / Parents
Emotional / Psychological /
YOU!!!
Spiritual Development
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6. Areas that can be developed personally
• Leadership
• Time Management
• Talent Development
• Presentation / Public Speaking Skills
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7. Leadership
What is leadership?
Characteristics of a leader
Leadership styles
Skills

8. What is Leadership?
It can be defined as the act applying one’s knowledge and
skills to influence someone or a group of people to
accomplish a goal for a desired outcome.

9. “The process and behaviour in which one individual or
group of persons influences another or group members
toward the attainment of defined group or
organisational goals.” [Greenberg & Baron: 2003:471]

10. Everyone Can Be a Leader
• Home
• Church
• Family
• Work
• Sports team
• School
• Y’sdom

11. Traits of a Good Leader
• An honorable character
• Initiative
• Compassionate
• Flexible
• Consistent
• Self disciplined
• Determination
• Honesty
• Accountability

12. Qualities expected from an efficient leader

13. Leadership Styles: Autocratic
• Person in charge make all the decisions
• Expects other team members to do as they are told
• Used when there is little or no time for discussion, and a result must
be reached quickly
• When there is little margin for error
• Dealing with argumentative or highly dependant persons
• It is difficult to balance this approach and maintain the morale of the
team
• If used, leader must; educate before they enforce, be consistent,
explain the rules, listen and respect subordinates
• “I want you two to…” attitude

14. Leadership Styles: Democratic / Participative
• Consultation with team members
• Leader maintains the final decision making authority
• Initiative encouraged
• Improves understanding of the issues by team
• More commitment to the action to be taken if they are involved in
decision making process
• Generally most effective
• Used when leader has part of the information and group members
have parts
• Useful since leaders do not know everything
• “Let’s work together to solve this …” attitude

15. Leadership styles: Laissez-faire/ Free
Reign
• The leader shows little or no guidance to group
• Group establishes its own goals
• Can lead to lack of motivation
• Leaders are still responsible for decisions which are made
• Should only be used when you have full confidence in the capabilities
of the team members
• Effective when group members are highly skilled, motivated and
capable of working on their own
• “You guys take care of this problem while I go…” attitude

16. Skills
• TECHNICAL: having or gaining knowledge of relevant processes or
techniques
• HUMAN: the ability to interact effectively with people to build
teamwork. Also referred to as networking skills
• CONCEPTUAL: the competence in making long term plans and putting
measures in place for their success

17. A Good Leader Should

18. A Good Leader Should
• Make the team feel valued by creating a environment of cooperation
• Recognize achievement through praising and communicating
individual success
• Provide a challenge by providing scope for individuals to take greater
responsibility
• Motivate and encourage self development

19. A Good Leader should …
• It involves an influential person seeking opportunities, initiating
projects, manipulating resources and setting out goals for all
members of the group to accomplish.
• An important aspect of a leader is the ability to achieve results by
working with other people and by looking at situations through the
eyes of the led

20. • Motivation is the most important characteristic that successful
leaders always want to achieve.
• Motivation is in every one of them from the most quiet to the most
outspoken leader and will manifest if the situation demands it.
• Communication skills are identified as the second most important
factor for an effective leader.
• There are four purposes for communication, they are, to convey
information, to assure understanding, to cause people to act and to
persuade people and to change their stance.

21. A Leader = A Follower
A leader must know how and when to be a follower. You can
not lead in every situation, every situation is unique.
Being a leader does not mean you know everything, but
that you are willing to learn from others who know what
you do not.

22. Leadership is Contagious
True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process
of teaching, setting an example and empowering others. If
you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured
in the successes of those around you.

23. Talent Development

24. Talent Vs. Skill
What is a Talent?
• <Solicit definitions from the participants>
• A marked innate ability, as for artistic or scientific accomplishment.
• Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality
What is a Skill?
• <Solicit Definitions from the participants>
• Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed
through training or experience
• The ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to
do something well
Source: www.thefreedictionary.com
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25. Your Talent is not Enough!
Talent Skill
1. Ability Capacity
2. Raw & Rough Refined People may pay you a stipend
3. Potential for Developed for your talents, but they will
development always pay a premium for
4. Innate or Inborn Comes with practice your skills.
5.
6. In the process of developing
7. your talents into skills, you will
learn good values and
8.
discipline.
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26. What is Talent Development?
• Developing your talent means turning it into a skill.
• Talent Development is a means of increasing capabilities of club
members, thereby enhancing their participation, team-spirit and
service opportunities.
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27. Why is it important to help develop the talents of our
members?
• To show we care: By investing the time, money and effort into
educating and training our members.
• To empower: With proper training and support, club members will
be able to take a proactive role in doing their tasks.
• To promote from within: As the club develops talent, there would be
more people qualified and well trained to advance to various
positions being offered in the club/international movement.
• To share knowledge: With more people knowing the goals,
processes and technologies that the club utilizes, the club members
can create a knowledge base to share the information to others.
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28. Ways to develop talent?
• Formal training: Sending club members to an internal or external
instructor led programmes associated with the position being held.
• On the job training: By shadowing and working with an existing
member, club members can learn new skills required on the job.
• Mentoring: When a more experienced member of the organization
helps develop a less experienced member of the organization or
team. Mentoring can either be formal or informal. The mentee
benefits from the experience of the mentor.
• Coaching: A process in which a person helps someone learn how to
deal with a situation or solve an issue. The key to this is that the
coach must not give the answer, but rather guide the person to arrive
at the solution
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29. How to develop talent in Youth Clubs?
Working with a Plan
• Assess the existing club needs: This is the first step. We need to
understand the needs of the club and implement plans to achieve
goals.
• Assess the capabilities of your club members: In this step we would
engage the club members to discuss their development needs. Once
we’ve agreed on the development needs, we can come up with a
development plan. The development plan must follow SMART.
Specific – Measurable – Actionable – Realistic – Time-bound.
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30. Is the plan working?
• Track progress and provide effective feedback: Once the
development plans are in place and the training starts, we need to
track the progress of our club members and set up meetings to
discuss their progress.
• Reevaluate the plan and adjust accordingly: Any plan would
require an update when necessary. When a situation changes or roles
and responsibilities change, we need to update the plan to reflect the
change. This would ensure that the plan is up-to-date.
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31. Presentation Skills

32. Why do You need to Develop Presentation
Skills?
• At some point in life, you will be required to do one of the following:
– Communicate your ideas to another person or a group of people
– Sell your products or services to another person or a group or people
– Stand and present a speech on behalf of yourself or a group of people
– Defend a paper or a dissertation in school
• In order to successfully achieve any of these activities, you must
develop sound presentation skills
• This session will provide you with tips on how to successfully make a
presentation to another person or group of people
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33. Presentation: Before you present
• What is the desired outcome?
• What is needed to achieve the outcome?
• Do I really need a presentation?
• Collect your information
• Prepare a script
• Design visual aids
• Rehearse

34. Fear and Panic
• Find a friendly face
• Body language (leaning forward)
• Engage a discussion
• Make eye contact with the audience
• Think of your favourite food or person

35. Presentation Format
• Introduce the presentation
• Description
• Open for discussion
• Summarise
• Outcomes of the discussion

36. Visual Presentations
• Avoid too many colors, sounds and slide transition effects
• Keep text simple and easy to understand
• Use everyday language
• Think of the people in the back when creating slides
• Body language

37. Communication gap
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38. Communication gap
• Yesterday I watched a child playing with a dog
• Decoded:
• Was it a boy or a girl?
• What type of dog was it?
• How old was the child?
• Where did it take place?

39. THANK YOU