Let’s imagine a situation where you have been trying to get hired at your dream job for a long time. After the successful interview, you get rejected due to personality traits.
There are times at your work when someone is in the limelight for good personality & work performance. During this moment, you think about how you can be like them.
As an individual, do you wish to enhance your personality & look for the right guide to move forward?
To improve your personality, initially, you need to understand what personality is all about. It is a mixture of emotional, social, physical, and mental traits that can be improvised slowly when practiced with dedication. By improving specific life skills, you can achieve all the dreams you constantly desire to succeed.
Let’s look for ways to develop your personality.
1. Evaluate Yourself
The first step is to evaluate yourself and maintain notes about the personality traits you are good at & need to improve. These could be related to your nature, tonality during communication, social skills, dressing sense & more. Once you know yourself well, you know your passion, in which direction you wish to take your life, & how you can upgrade your skills.
2. Step out of the Comfort Zone
Once you know about strengths & weaknesses, it’s time to move out of your comfort zone. Adapt new things to be a better person in professional & personal life. Grab new opportunities that you didn’t earlier due to self-doubt. The worst you can do is make mistakes, but there is new learning—initiate conversation in a group or around your colleagues. If your normal tendency is to panic or get angry about a situation, try to be calm, understand the case as a whole, and look for solutions. Minor changes will gradually reflect as primary positive results.
3. Build a Network
It is said, “Long-term consistency trumps short term intensity\”. When you note every small step to practice, you see results. Networking has a similar process when done regularly; it has multiple benefits.
a) More people recognize you,
b) You develop the confidence to communicate
c) When in need, you can help someone & get support.
We all know how good a Network is like an extra perk in your life.
4. Effective Listening with Communication
When developing your skills, it is necessary to read a lot for the fundamental reason you understand what to speak, when & how. When networking with people, you communicate about multiple informative & non-informative topics. These traits boost your confidence, but at the same time, you have to gain people\’s trust. Enhance your skill to be a good listener, and it will also gain the confidence of many people. A good conversation is only possible when it is from both sides. When you listen to a speaker, remember what they said and understand their body language, their background as to why they would talk about something & is a positive or negative conversation.
5. Body language is Key to Magic
Body language is the most powerful key to communicating, building Network, or creating an admiring personality. A person around you feels safe, comfortable and the path gets smooth. Someone can trust you or share your things when they realize you remember what they shared with you earlier. Be kind to people but not fake for someone to mistrust you. A kind smile, firm handshake, and erect standing gestures make a major difference in your personality.
Conclusion
As you now understand, enhancing personality is essential. The steps mentioned are easy & beneficial if practiced with dedication—gear up for the new you who is better than before to reach the heights. Now set an excellent example for people around you in both your personal & professional life.