| Personality Development is a key to career development |
Many of us wonder if Personality development is possible considering
the fact that many personality theories suggest that we are born with
our personalities.
Personality is our psychological behavior that affects the way handle
people around us and the situations we encounter in life. You hear the
term; he has a cool personality or he has a high temper personality.
Both descriptions attempt to describe the person’s interaction with
people and situations.
In order to decide on the best way for personality development is to
understand what determines our personality in general. In line with this
site’s way, we will avoid the theories and academic jargons.
Our Personality is decided by three main factors:
1. Heredity of our genes
2. Our Environment
3. The Situation we handle.
Let’s us drill down a little bit.
Heredity of our genes refers to how we were born. The genes we inherit
from our biological parents play a big role in our personality and our
personality development. Our physical facial attraction, gender, muscle,
reflexes, energy levels, hair are all decided in the chromosomes of our
genes.
What support the above are many researches. There is a famous study
which covered more than a 100 separated twins at birth. This study
found these twins drove the same car type and model, names their dogs
the same names, take their vacation two thousands miles away from
home within couple of blocks from each others! Other research found
that children inherit shyness, fear and distress.
Our Environment
It is not surprising that the cultures that we grow within play a big role
in our personality and personality development. Think of yourself as an
example. If you grow in a religion related culture, your principles in life
would be different to a person who grows up in an non-religious culture.
Your principles, ideology and way of dealing with other might follow
what your religion teaches you.
This is different if religion is not part of your culture where you tend to
gauge right and wrong based on other factors that are taught in
religions. An interesting theory of personality development shows that
the first born child in a family is more concerned with social acceptance,
more ambitious, more hardworking, more cooperative, more dependent,
more prone to guilt feelings, prone to anxiety, and less aggressive that
the second and third child of the same family. This is another evidence of
the effect of our environment on our personality development.
You would also notice a certain behavior associated with certain cultures
and nationalities.
The Situation we handle
The above two factors of our personality equation might give “stereo
typing” people a breathing space. However, it is not meant to should
they consider the third factor in our personality development; the
situation we handle. This is because no matter what is the culture you
were raised within and the genes you have, you personality
development can improve if you handle the situation in a well educated
manner. By this we mean that no matter who you are, you can be
trained to handle the same situation in the same way that another
person who has different genes and cultural background handles the
same situation.
This is why customer service agents are trained to handle customers in
the same way. Their personality development training as a customer
agent focuses on certain ways to handle angry customers, answer them
in a certain way, learn their name at the beginning of the phone call,
learn when to call the supervisor, learn how to manage anger. The
language skills of these customer agents might be different, but they
sometimes sound the same personality to all of us. This is because their
personality training intended to focus them on the same customer
handling no matter what their home born personality is.
Return to the Leadership skills from the Personality Development Page
the fact that many personality theories suggest that we are born with
our personalities.
Personality is our psychological behavior that affects the way handle
people around us and the situations we encounter in life. You hear the
term; he has a cool personality or he has a high temper personality.
Both descriptions attempt to describe the person’s interaction with
people and situations.
In order to decide on the best way for personality development is to
understand what determines our personality in general. In line with this
site’s way, we will avoid the theories and academic jargons.
Our Personality is decided by three main factors:
1. Heredity of our genes
2. Our Environment
3. The Situation we handle.
Let’s us drill down a little bit.
Heredity of our genes refers to how we were born. The genes we inherit
from our biological parents play a big role in our personality and our
personality development. Our physical facial attraction, gender, muscle,
reflexes, energy levels, hair are all decided in the chromosomes of our
genes.
What support the above are many researches. There is a famous study
which covered more than a 100 separated twins at birth. This study
found these twins drove the same car type and model, names their dogs
the same names, take their vacation two thousands miles away from
home within couple of blocks from each others! Other research found
that children inherit shyness, fear and distress.
Our Environment
It is not surprising that the cultures that we grow within play a big role
in our personality and personality development. Think of yourself as an
example. If you grow in a religion related culture, your principles in life
would be different to a person who grows up in an non-religious culture.
Your principles, ideology and way of dealing with other might follow
what your religion teaches you.
This is different if religion is not part of your culture where you tend to
gauge right and wrong based on other factors that are taught in
religions. An interesting theory of personality development shows that
the first born child in a family is more concerned with social acceptance,
more ambitious, more hardworking, more cooperative, more dependent,
more prone to guilt feelings, prone to anxiety, and less aggressive that
the second and third child of the same family. This is another evidence of
the effect of our environment on our personality development.
You would also notice a certain behavior associated with certain cultures
and nationalities.
The Situation we handle
The above two factors of our personality equation might give “stereo
typing” people a breathing space. However, it is not meant to should
they consider the third factor in our personality development; the
situation we handle. This is because no matter what is the culture you
were raised within and the genes you have, you personality
development can improve if you handle the situation in a well educated
manner. By this we mean that no matter who you are, you can be
trained to handle the same situation in the same way that another
person who has different genes and cultural background handles the
same situation.
This is why customer service agents are trained to handle customers in
the same way. Their personality development training as a customer
agent focuses on certain ways to handle angry customers, answer them
in a certain way, learn their name at the beginning of the phone call,
learn when to call the supervisor, learn how to manage anger. The
language skills of these customer agents might be different, but they
sometimes sound the same personality to all of us. This is because their
personality training intended to focus them on the same customer
handling no matter what their home born personality is.
Return to the Leadership skills from the Personality Development Page
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