Why is it important to know yourself?
- make better choices in life, both professionally and in private. If you do not know what your abilities are, nor what you want and don’t want, you risk making wrong choices.
- have better relations and maintain them. Good relations are built on showing each other your ‘true self’. If you do not know who you are and what you want, this could become difficult. You could then tend to not fully show yourself, or portray yourself incorrectly. This will not be beneficial to your relationships.
- know and define your own boundaries. Setting your own boundaries and saying “no” once in a while is not easy. The better you know what you want, the easier this will get.
Competences
Sum of all knowledge, skills, and attitudes that you can use while performing a task.
Talents
A person’s natural preferences or characteristics
… determines the predisposition for ….
Talent, Competences
What is considered natural preferences? Competences or Talent?
Talent
Your … is your potential to develop a certain …
Talent, competence
TRUE OR FALSE:
“Talent” refers to the “how-to’s” of a role; whether you know how to create spreadsheets with Excel, how to draft up a communication campaign, or whether you know how to play tennis.
False
A … is something you’ve learned
Competence
TRUE OR FALSE:
“I’m really good at organising parties. I really like to do this, and I believe that preparing things well is very important!”
The person in this example has both the talent (predisposition) and the competence to organise.
True
TRUE OR FALSE:
Developing your talent makes you find more pleasure in doing your job. Doing something that you like makes your day go by faster and this also holds up for group assignments, classes you take etc.
True
Five factor model of personality
- Openmindeness
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neurotiscism
Openmindedness
Degree of intellectual curiousity, creativity, and a preference for novelty.
Conscientiousness
Tendency to be organized & dependable
Neuroticism
Predisposition to physical stress
Agreeableness
Measure of one’s trusting and helpful nature
Extraversion
Tendency to seek the company of others and talk
Which factors from the 5 factor model do students from the Programme of Social Work (UCLL) score significantly higher on than students of the Programme of Management (UCLL)?
Agreeableness and Neuroticism
Which factor from the 5 factor model do students of Entrepreneurship score noticeably higher on than students of Accountancy?
Extraversion
Which factors from the 5 factor model do women score significantly higher on than men.
Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
