| What is Self-Introspection? Self-introspection is a very powerful but simple HRD process to help you surely win. Also it is the VISA for you to travel always in the winning orbit! Like a master health check up for better health, it is a thorough personality audit / behavioral analysis to ensure your success
It is a scientific process of generating your own data about all your personality aspects, critical analysis of all such data collected and making effective decisions, as how you have to re-organize yourself to have the personality fitness to manage your challenges.
It is a 3 stage process. First, you have to ask effective questions about your thoughts / ideas, feelings/ emotions, actions / style of functioning, strengths / opportunities, limitations / threats, plans / strategies, results / outcome, decisions / learning etc. and on every aspect of your life.
Second, you have to leisurely do a critical analysis of all the data collected and without any pressure to take a complete stock of yourself, for you to have a quick self-correction, wherever necessary. Finally, you have to make decisions, as how you have to restructure yourself and develop action plans to achieve your goals.
Self-introspection can help you, have a deeper understanding of yourself, see your boundaries, find more options / choices, realize your freedom & control, discover what you are missing in life and recognize your style of functioning and identify the areas, you need to reorganize quickly .It can be really a major turning point in your life.
Benefits of Self-introspection:
Every module can give you, that module specific benefits. Also you can derive many other benefits from Self-introspection. The following are a few benefits, worth mentioning.
Self-actualization: More than 90% people either over estimate or under estimate themselves due to ego, perceptions, likes, dislikes etc… It is the reason for all the confusions, failures, problems, wrong decisions, misunderstandings, under -achievements etc.. Self-introspection can help you know your strengths, weaknesses, problems, opportunities, needs etc. reasonably well . This can help you think realistically and plan practically.
Distorted personality dynamics: You do not know your true personality, but perceive it often. Also you project your personality, differently to different persons, at home, office & society. Similarly, others also perceive and project you differently to others. Self-introspection can help you, know who you are really and what others think of you, so as to correct the distorted image of yourself. Ultimately, this can help you deal others effectively and get the things done faster.
Auto suggestion: Generally people have a psychology to resist changes and others suggestions. Though, you may need many corrections in your style of functioning, you may not like others point them out . Also others may not be keen to give you constructive feedback. Even if you have a few well wishers, they too may not be inclined to criticize you, as it may strain their relationship with you. Hence, self-introspection is the only way to influence you. Yes! You can easily accept your own analysis and feedback.
Effective decision making: Mostly people take decisions as per their likes and dislikes either, or for the likes and dislikes of others. It is the reason for many failures and problems. You must learn to take decisions with proper rationale. Many persons have dilemma in taking a decision. This can lead only to a chaos. Taking a good decision a bit late also can't do any good to you. You have to take effective decisions quickly to win. Self-introspection can help you rationalize your facts and possibilities and motivate you to take a proper decision.
Self-confidence / Assertiveness: Self-introspection can give you the needed clarity, as why things are going wrong and as how to correct / manage them. You can evolve many practical strategies, alternate strategies to manage your problems, overcome your limitations and to achieve the set goals. Also you can decide where to compromise and where to seek others help. All these can help improve your self-confidence / assertiveness.
Trim your personality: You are effective. But you can be more effective. If you want to improve your performance / profit, then you have to change your style of functioning. Yes! You have to identify the areas you need to reorganize and the behavior you need to modify quickly, in order to cope with the changes and challenges effectively. Self-introspection can help you have this critical analysis of yourself to facilitate your self-renewal / self-development.
Recognize misconceptions: Everyone has several concepts acquired by brought up, environment, personal experiences etc. Since people are conditioned, mostly they believe the concepts what they have are good, without rationalizing them. Self-introspection can take a stock of all such concepts and rationalize them to distinguish the misconceptions. It helps change your mental makeup properly.
Self-motivation / Re-charging: Self-introspection process can help you derive / recharge the needed motivation to meet all your life challenges and also to trim your personality suitably, time to time . You may have to borrow others support in order to manage your limitations to achieve your goals. You need abundant motivation to seek others help / support. Self-introspection can give you the needed power and motivation.
Adaptability conscious: Due to technology uptake and globalization, adaptability is a high valued skill to succeed. You must cope with changes & pressures always, whether you like it or not. You must know where you are rigid and non-compromising. Self-introspection can help you have an adaptability conscious and motivate you to be more flexible and open minded.
Gain an edge over others: It is a highly competitive world. Everyone is smart and trying to gain an edge over others to achieve more. Therefore, it is not just enough to be capable, but you have to be fast in everything too. You have to keep improvising yourself and even a small improvement in one aspect can make the difference. Self-introspection can help you trim your personality and fine tune yourself and help you stay in the winning orbit.
Understand the hard realities: Most of the people live with several problems and without knowing them and their consequences. One cannot recognize the problems that easily and needs continuous and repeated inputs. De - conditioning the conditioned people is a hard job. Success loving people must recognize the following hard realities.
Success is not consistent: Every success loving person thinks that he or she can achieve success easily. But in reality it is not true. Achievement motivation is an important factor for one to achieve more. Some persons achieve in the beginning of their life. But fail to achieve in their rest of life.
Similarly one achieves in one or two aspects of life and not in every aspect. It is difficult to find people who achieve consistently at every stage and in every aspect of their life. Achievement motivation makes the difference. Self-introspection can help have consistent achievement motivation.
Self development a daily agenda: Everyone talks about HRD and self-development very high. But in reality, people give less priority or no priority to HRD and self-development. Most of the people have a notion that self development is automatic and one need not take much efforts. Everyone has a rhythm in life. Yes, one has a clear timings for all their activities in life. Very hardly people have a specific time for self thinking / self analysis / self-development.
Also people have another wrong notion that only organizations are responsible for the HRD of their people. Only a very few personnel take the responsibility for their development. Unless one takes personal responsibility for his development and have a definite daily agenda for his development, he can't achieve more. Self-introspection can help a lot in this regard.
Mechanical and conditioned life: Every person is creative and potential. But due to brought up, personal experiences and environment, one gets conditioned and become more mechanical in his thinking and actions. Most of the people make decisions based on their feelings and perceptions. Even if they are helped with real facts, they could not recognize it and refuse.
Hence, whatever potentials or creativity they may have, they can't use them properly. Unless they devote some time for a self-thinking, they can't realize as how they are under utilizing their potentials and as how badly they are under the influence of conditioning. Self-introspection can help solve this problem.
Living in utopia: Every success loving person has ambitions and dreams. Everyone is so keen to get managerial skills and professional skills to succeed in life. Invariably people forget to understand who they are, really. Definitely one may not know, who he is really. But may not say it out and seek others help. He thinks it will let him down.
Also, he does not take adequate efforts to discover his own self properly. His reference groups / associates know him better because they are his video cameras. But may not be inclined to reveal the facts as he may not take their feedback positively. Hence, they always give exaggerated positive feedback and suppress the negative aspects totally, to achieve their agenda.
Even if someone gives the true feedback, he may not appreciate it. Therefore, he pretends to others and others also pretend to him. Thus he is living in total dark .Only self introspection can save him from this danger.
Self training is the best option: Generally, people think that they need trainers for any training. But it is not always true. Even without trainers, one can get trained in the aspects wanted using self-training methods. After all training is a learning process and learning is more of behavior modification process. There are a number of self-training ways. In fact it is more cost effective and time effective.
Self-training can address your needs precisely. Group trainings can only address common needs. Group trainings can help you get started in any aspect and you can hardly learn 20% of the total learning needed in any aspect. Only self-training can help you have 100% learning. Hence it is the need of the hour. Self-introspection can help you develop self-training skills.
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Personality Audit 1. One must have role & goal clarity in order to achieve goals and to manage challenges. To make realistic plans and develop effective strategies, one must know his personality well. Generally people either over estimate or underestimate their capabilities and only a few persons really aware of their potentials truly. It is the reason for all their problems and failures.
A list of managerial skills and personality aspects is given below to help you consider the personality aspects you would like to audit. 2. Accepting others view 3. Active / dynamic 4. Active listening 5. Adaptability 6. Appreciating others 7. Assertiveness 8. Body language 9. Communication 10. Convincing others 11. Coping with differences 12. Coping with pressure 13. Cost effectiveness 14. Counseling skills 15. Creating opportunities 16. Creativity 17. Decision making 18. Delegation 19. Effective group discussion 20. Effective group presentation 21. Effective implementation / Execution 22. Effective learning 23. Effective money management 24. Effective planning 25. Effectiveness conscious 26. Experimenting new ideas 27. Facilitating 28. Free expression 29. Generating new ideas 30. Getting along with others 31. Getting feedback 32. Getting others appreciation 33. Giving feedback 34. Goal setting 35. Good interpersonal skills 36. Grabbing the available opportunities 37. Grasping skills 38. Help others grow 39. Impressing others 40. Interacting with others 41. Making a failure, a success 42. Making alternate strategies 43. Managing challenges 44. Managing changes 45. Managing competitions 46. Managing constraints 47. Managing criticism 48. Managing emotions 49. Managing failures 50. Managing non-cooperation 51. Managing opposition 52. Managing problems 53. Managing tension 54. Managing tough persons 55. Managing tough situations 56. Manipulative skills 57. Monitoring and follow-up 58. Motivating others 59. Negotiation 60. Observation skills 61. Patience / tolerance 62. Perseverance 63. Policy making 64. Positive thinking 65. Predicting / visualizing 66. Prioritizing 67. Projecting a positive image 68. Public speaking 69. Reading others mind 70. Regular updating 71. Resolving conflicts 72. Role clarity 73. Saying NO when needed 74. Seeking others help 75. Self-appreciation 76. Self-confidence 77. Self-control / will power 78. Self-motivation 79. Sociability 80. Systematic working 81. Sensitivity to situations 82. Taking initiative 83. Taking risks 84. Time management 85. Training skills 86. Trusting others 87. Turning a problem to opportunities 88. Using others effectively 89. Winning others confidence 90. Writing skills | |
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