Chapter One : Understanding Personal Development and Ethics

Chapter One : Understanding Personal Development and Ethics

1. Definitions

   • Carillo 2002 : The buliding block off all k-based organizational & social development
   • Imhonopi & Urim 2010: Aimed at all round development which affects one's characeter, leadership abilities, goals & aspirations & lifestyles.
   • The Webster Dictionary: The process of personal change, growth, progress advancement & improvement.
   • Syed Imtiaz Ahmad 2013: The nation og enhancement of one's capabilities & potential

2. Core concept of Personal Development

   • intrapersonal Skills
     • Attitude & Self-Concept
     • Motivation & Perseverance
     • Self-Management
   • Interpersonal Skills
     • Effective Communication
   • Professionalism
     • Importance of Thinking
   • Effective & Sustainability
     • Spiritual Perspective

3. Influential People as Role Models

   • Prophet Muhammad SAW
   • Issac Newton
   • Jesus Christ
   • Gautama Buddha
   • Confucius

4. Superior Qualities of Role Models

   • Ethical & Moral Principles
     • The ethics of our decisions & actions is defined as a society not as individuals
   • Spiritual Outlook or Values
     • The spiritual person is one who is close to God, loves God, always thinks of God, put God first, or who tries to do God's will
   • Human Conduct
     • James Q. Wilson & George L. Kelling and their famous 'broken window theory'.

5. Different Perspectives of Personal Development

   • Islamic Perspective
     • Personal development is the innate dignity conferred by God & Man
     • Man will be held accountable for observing & moral system of Islam In 3 Dimensions
       • Towords God
       • Toworlds Self
       • Towords Society
   • Christian Perspective
     • The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom
     • Christians are tranforms or changed by renewing their minds
   • Hindunism Perspective
     • Personal development is the beginning of mind
   • Buddhanism Perspective
     • Does not revolve around & belief in God
     • Believe that they are responsible for their own deeds, happiness & misery
     • They are the architect of their own fates
   • Western Psychological & Sosiological
     • Eric Erikson
       • That personalities continued to change over time and was never truly finished
     • Jean Piaget
       • Development of self evolved through a negotiation between the worlds as it exists in experienced socially
     • Charles Cooley
       • The individual person's self grows out society interpersonal interactions & the perceptions of others
     • George Herbert Mead
       • A person's distinct identity is developed through social interection

6. S.M.A.R.T. Goals

   • S = Specific
   • M - Measureable
   • A = Attainable
   • R = Realisitic
   • T = Timely