MPD-BCOM213-Unit-1

SELF:

CORE COMPETENCY :

Core competencies are sets of intellectual, personal, social and emotional

proficiencies that all students need to develop in order to engage in deep and
life-long learning.

We will focus on following competencies

 Communication
 Thinking
 Personal & Social
 Social Responsibility

1. COMMUNICATION

The communication competency encompasses the set of abilities that students

use to impart and exchange information, experiences and ideas, to explore the
world around them, and ability to listen

Exercise

1. Do you participate in discussions?

2. Describe how you share ideas and questions.
3. Explain what you do when you disagree with someone in your group?

2. THINKING

The thinking competency encompasses the knowledge, skills and processes we

associate with intellectual development and is demonstrated through:

• creative thinking • critical thinking

Creative Thinking Exercise

1. How do you develop your ideas?
2.Talk about something you designed. If you did it all over again, what
adjustments would you make?
3 What helps you get new ideas?
4 Describe the environment you like to be in when you are coming up with new
ideas?

Critical Thinking Exercise

1. Describe a problem that you solved.

2. What strategies do you use to determine the truth about what you‟re reading
on a social media site?
3. When you are curious, how do you find answers?

3. PERSONAL & SOCIAL

The personal and social competency includes

• positive personal identity

• personal awareness & responsibility

• social responsibility

Positive Personal & Cultural Identity Exercise

1. What are you good at?

2. What makes you unique?

Personal Awareness & Responsibility Exercise

1. How are you progressing as a learner?

2. How can you use your strengths to improve?
3. Why do you postpone things?
4. Why do you get addicted to something?
5. Describe a time you stood up for something you believed in.
6. Talk about a time that you made some good choices that contributed to your
well-being.
Social Responsibility Exercise

1. How have you strengthened your relationships with others this year?
2.Describe how your actions have helped make your classroom, college,
community or the natural environment a better place.
3. Describe a time you used kind words and actions to encourage or help others.

Now Make Your Personal Development Plan based on your SWOT

Analysis

SELF

The self is first and foremost the collection of beliefs that we hold about
ourselves. Such as

What are our important characteristics?

What are we good at?

What we do poorly?

What kinds of situations do we prefer or avoid?

People are different. Such as

One person may think of himself/herself academically inclined who plans to

become a professor.

Another might think of himself/herself as not academically inclined but good at

most of sports.

A third person may think of himself/herself primarily in terms of a future goal,

such as the desire to become the biggest real estate mogul in a defined territory
such as Delhi/NCR.

Thus, the set of beliefs we hold about who we are is called the self-concept.

Understanding Self
Self-Understanding is the awareness of and ability to understand one‟s own
thoughts and actions. It is related to attaining the insight into own attitudes,
motives, defences, reactions, weaknesses and strengths

Definition : Understanding self represents the sum total of people‟s conscious

perception of their identity as distinct from others. It is not a static phenomenon,
but continues to develop & change throughout our lives.

George Herbert Head • The understanding self is thinking about what is

involved in being? What distinguish you from being an object, an animal or
different person? - Richard Stevens

Importance of Understanding Self:

• Self-understanding has been recognized as a key competency for individuals

to function efficiently in organizations.

• It influences an individual‟s ability to make key decisions about self, others

around.

• Understanding the self,equips individuals with making more effective career

& life choice, the ability to lead, guide & inspire with authenticity

COMPONENTS OF SELF

The factors that contribute to the formation of self-concept are:

1. Self Identity

2. Self-Concept

3. Self-Confidence

4. Self-Image

1. Self Identity

The two distinct ways that the self can be categorized. At the personal level, the
self can be thought of as a unique individual, whereas at the social identity
level, the self is thought of as a member of a group.

The personal identity end refers to when we think of ourselves primarily as

individuals. We emphasize „how we are different from other individuals‟.
The social identity refers to when we think of ourselves as members of
specific social groups. We emphasize the ways that we are similar to other
group members.

In other way, Social identity is the story the society (others) says about you
while self-identity is the story you say of yourself. The story you tell yourself
has a much more powerful impact on your life than the story other‟s say about
you.

2. Self-Concept

 The set of beliefs that we hold about who we are is called the self
concept.
 It is the awareness of being (What I am) and awareness of function (What
I can do, What we ought to be and would like to b.
 This latter component of the self is called the ideal self. The ideal self
represents the self concept that an individual would ideally want to
posses.
 Two ways in which WE perceive Ourselves
 POSITIVE SELF CONCEPT: People with positive self concept believe
in themselves, are confident about their ability to deal with problems,
make decisions, feel equal to others, have respect for themselves and
expect it from others. These are people who are realistic in their
assessment of themselves and can admit to a wide range of feelings,
behaviours and needs.
 NEGATIVE SELF CONCEPT: If people see themselves as failures and
have a negative, pessimistic image of themselves, they will begin to act
the part. Negative feelings feed on themselves and become a downward
spiral, gradually encompassing all of the people‟s thoughts, actions and
relationships. People with negative self concepts tend to complain
constantly and find it difficult to accept criticism.

3. Self-Confidence:

Self-confidence is the confidence one has in oneself, one‟s knowledge, and

one‟sabilities. It is the confidence of the type: “I can do this”. “I have the ability
to do this”.

Self-confidence is the one thing that is much more important than many other
abilities and traits. If you do not have self-confidence, what you do will never
become fruitful at all. The fruits of what you do without self-confidence are
lost.

Actually, confidence is to be willing to try that which scares you the most and
the belief that you can manage anything that arises. Would you like to have
more self-confidence?

Actually I have not yet met a person who replied to that question with a
negative. Well, there is only one way: by doing to do it.

One of the ways you gain confidence is by trying things you are not sure you
can do. Each time you achieve something new, you boost your confidence
levels a little.

Many times you are afraid of to try new things because you could fail and that
wouldn‟tlook good. However, trying is what is most important. If you don‟t try,
you have failed already.

So, you have nothing to lose by trying. Not trying means you do not even give
yourself the chance of succeeding. You stay in the safety zone of not looking
silly or failing. It probably is safer but it also gets you nowhere. So, the first step
to building confidence is daring to try that which you are not sure you will
succeed at.

Don‟t forget to plan for your worst case scenario before you do anything but
remember that very rarely will that worst case scenario ever becomea reality.

Building confidence is also about what you should not be doing. For example,
something happens and you end up looking silly and unprofessional. Most of
you will spend some time worrying about it and thinking what you should have
done instead. It is true you should learn from your mistakes, but there‟s no need
to punish yourself for them.

Remember, keep things in perspective and file it now. Having tolerance and
compassion for yourself is just as important as having it for others.

Both self confidence and self esteem relate to your perception of yourself, the
former relates to your perception of your abilities and the latter relates to your
perception of your worth or value. • Both concepts are closely related and those
with low self confidence will often have low self esteem and vice versa.

4. Self-Image (Inner Mirror-Can do or Can’t Do)

Self-image is how you see yourself or how you perceive yourself. You have
some great skills, but unless you see yourself as having those skills, and can
make others see them as well, they will stay locked in a box, never to be
acknowledged.

You behave as you visualise yourself. Your thoughts send message to your
mind and you behave accordingly.

For example. In your school-For stage performance, you visualised yourself

performing therefore, you practised hard to make it real.

Being who you are, is one thing and being seen for who you are can be quite
another.

If you project a positive self- image, people will be more likely to see you as a
positive, capable person. It's important that your self-image be both positive and
realistic.

Sometimes having an occasional negative thought or criticism about oneself can

encourage change, hard work, growth and success. Sometimes having too
positive an image of oneself can encourage complacency, underachievement,
and arrogance. Finding the balance between feeling positive about oneself but
having realistic goals is important.

So, develop right a self Image to change your thinking and behaviour.