Chapter 1
Personal Awareness
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Motivation Video
Success Stories
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In This Chapter You Will:
Assess your:
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motivation,
values,
personality,
interests, and
multiple intelligences.
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Some Common Motivators
 Family
 Money
 Goals
 Values
 Fear of consequences
 Other motivators?
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Internal Motivation
These are motivators we create for ourselves.
For example:
Students who were internally motivated to get out of
bed this morning would respond…
 “To get a good education”
 “To advance in my job”
 “To accomplish my goals”
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External Motivation
External motivations are created for us.
For example:
Students who were externally motivated to get out of
bed may respond...
 “My mom made me”
 “I have to attend school or I have to get a full-time job”
 “Financial aid requires me to get good grades”
 “To make my family proud”
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Which Do You Think Is a Better
Indicator of Success?
 Internal or External Motivation?
Internal Motivation
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Another Perspective?
 External motivation requires an audience.
 If you remove the praise, rewards or attention,
would you still be doing what you are doing?
 If the answer is No, then you are not doing what you
love!
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Values
Success depends on doing something you love that is
important to you – also known as doing what you
value.
 What do you value?
 How does it relate to your career
and professional goals?
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Values Activity
 Take a moment to list your top 10 goals for the next
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15 years! Dream big! Write each goal on a separate
sheet of paper and place in front of you.
Ready? Now throw away 2 of your goals
Now another 2….
1 more!!!
What goals are you left with?? These goals are most
important to you…these are your VALUES!!
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Let’s Discuss...
 How did it feel to throw away your values during
this activity?
 Can you think of a time in your life when you were
asked to throw your values away? How did it feel?
 Make sure your career and life goals honor your
values!!!
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Homework
 Chapter 1 Slides 6-9:
Assessing and Identifying your Values
 Use O*NET online to:
Match your top work values with careers.
2. Match your top interests with careers.
3. Explore careers by title, industry cluster, outlook, or
school subject.
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Getting to Know O*NET
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Personality
Personality refers to our natural behaviors – how we
understand and interact with the world around us.
-Carl Jung
AchieveWORKS Personality® is based on the MyersBriggs Type Indicator ® (MBTI ®). According to Jung,
we are all born with a certain “personality”. The way
we express our natural behavior may appear different
depending on our different stages and phases of life,
but our true personality never changes.
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The AchieveWORKS Personality
Overview
Extravert
Sensing
Thinking
Judging
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Introvert
Intuitive
Feeling
Perceiving
Where Does YOUR
Energy Come From?
 Extraverts’ energy comes from others. Known for
thinking out loud, extraverts have a very large
group of friends. They live out loud! We always
know when an extravert is having a bad day, good
day, fighting with a friend, dating new, etc.
 Introverts’ energy comes from within. They prefer
time to think before they speak and have a small
inner circle of friends. Introverts during conflict will
disappear and work it out on their own before
sharing with others.
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How Do YOU
Make Sense of Your Environment?
 Sensors use what’s right in front of them. They are
very good at social cues, depend heavily on their
senses, and enjoy being experts. The more
information they have, the better!
 Intuitives are the most creative! They take what’s
in front of them and change it into something you
have never seen before. They are often so busy
being creative that they do not notice social cues.
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How Do YOU
Make Your Decisions?
 Thinkers prefer to make decisions based on logic
and rules. They enjoy a good argument or debate,
and often appear disconnected or unaffected by
emotions.
 Feelers prefer to make decisions based on their
value system. They often put other people’s needs
ahead of their own, dislike conflict, prefer harmony.
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How Do YOU
Organize Your Environment?
 Judgers need organization in their life. They must
have a plan A, B, and C in place to feel confident,
dislike change, and are at their best when using
some sort of calendar or to do list.
 Perceivers prefer change. They are very adaptable,
perform best in an unstructured environment, and
will become frustrated if structure is imposed.
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What Were Your AchieveWORKS
Personality Results?
 Is your tested type and guessed type the same?
 If not, ask … how do you prefer to be in a work
environment?
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Another Perspective on Type
 Keirsey: When the types interact they create certain
temperaments. Each temperament has its own
unique qualities, strengths and challenges.
Guardians
Artisans
Idealists
Rationals
(ESTJ, ISTJ,
ESFJ, ISFJ)
(ENFJ, INFJ,
ENFP, INFP)
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(ESTP, ISTP,
ESFP, ISFP)
(ENTJ, INTJ,
ENTP, INTP)
Guardians
ESTJ, ISTJ, ESFJ, ISFJ
 Organized, comfortable with rules, responsible
 As children, they followed rules in class and
respected authority figures
 Important for them to always have harmony in life
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Guardians
ESTJ, ISTJ, ESFJ, ISFJ
 Rebel during adolescence, but usually not for long
 Dislike new experiences. May make decisions
quickly, then be unwilling to change – even if
change is for the better
 Change in their schedule may cause panic
 Take themselves and life very seriously
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Artisans
ESTP, ISTP, ESFP, ISFP
 Adaptable to change
 Prefer hands-on activities, highly impulsive
 Graceful and skillful
 As children, these were the risk takers or daredevils
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Artisans
ESTP, ISTP, ESFP, ISFP
 Curious, playful
 Find themselves in trouble a lot
 Rooms and living areas are often in a disarray
 Often late or unprepared
 Need to be constantly talking and moving
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Idealists
ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, INFP
 Value relationships above all else
 Even as children, were on a search for meaning
in their lives
 Tend to take things personally. May seem too
serious about understanding meaning in things
as opposed to enjoying them
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Idealists
ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, INFP
 May be accused of being “ too emotional”
 Usually loving and affectionate, but can rage and
hold grudges for long periods of time
 Communicating effectively is an important drive for
them
 Naturally drawn to the arts or activities which allow
for creativity
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Rationals
ENTJ, INTJ, ENTP, INTP
 Problem solvers and original thinkers
 Independent, stubborn, can seem defiant
 Place high value on competence
 As children they were constantly questioning
 “I know better than anyone else”
 More interested in learning than pleasing others
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Rationals
ENTJ, INTJ, ENTP, INTP
 Set incredibly high standards for themselves
 Get bored very quickly, need to continue to learn to
stay engaged
 Change interests and hobbies as they master them
 “Emotionally unattached”, may reject physical
contact from others
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Multiple Intelligences (Abilities)
 Are a result of natural talents and the degree to
which we develop them
 Different abilities can be used to accomplish the
same goal
 Multiple intelligences (abilities) are defined as
what can be done well
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Multiple Intelligences
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Linguistic
Musical
Spatial
Kinesthetic
Strong
verbal skills
Natural
rhythm,
pitch and
melody
Shapes,
visual
patterns and
distance
Strong in
movement
and
coordination
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Multiple Intelligences
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Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Naturalist
Mathematical
Existential
Understanding
self and
strengths
People,
relationships,
and
“Green
thumb”
Reasoning,
sequences
and patterns
How
different
ideas
connect into
a broader
concept
communication
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Interests
 What you enjoy doing
 John Holland: Holland’s Interest Code (RIASEC)
 Often interests are inter-related
 Created hexagon to explain interests
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Holland’s Hexagon
Realistic
Investigative
Conventional
Enterprising
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Artistic
Social
Holland’s Interests
Realistic
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• Doers, they prefer being outdoors, using
tools, operating machines, interacting with
animals, working with their hands.
Investigative
• Intellectuals, prefer scientific, scholarly
exploration and discovery. They like to solve
problems and perform experiments.
Artistic
• Creative, prefer working with ideas that are
visual and verbal. Excel in dance, music, art,
drawing, painting, design and drama.
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Social
• Helpers, prefer tasks that involve
socializing, helping others, teaching,
and relationships.
Enterprising
• Persuaders, prefer tasks that involve
leadership, business, debate,
entrepreneurship.
Conventional
• Organizers, prefer practical tasks,
structured environments, following the
rules and traditional office settings.
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Searching Interests on O*NET
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Searching Interests on O*NET
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What Is Self-Efficacy?
 Self-efficacy is the degree to which you believe you
can perform an action or behavior.
 It is similar to confidence. However, confidence is
just a general belief in yourself, while self-efficacy is
the belief that you can do what it takes to complete
certain tasks and goals.
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Self-Efficacy Video
How to Build Your Creative Confidence
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Developing Self-Efficacy
 Task Splitting
 Mentor or Model
 Feedback and Reinforcement
 Mood and Attitude
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Chapter Summary
 Deep personal awareness involves knowing your
values, personality, interests, abilities and selfefficacy.
 Increasing your personal awareness helps you find
and achieve purpose.
 Having and following your purpose brings success.
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