Self Development: The Importance Of Self-Development

Self-development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their qualities and skills, consider our goals in life and set goals in order to realise and maximize our potential.

We must to identify the skills that we need to set goals in life which can improve our prospects, increase our confidence and lead to a more fulfilling and higher quality life. Plan things to make relevant, positive and effective life choices and decisions for our future to enable personal empowerment.

Although the early development of life and early formative experiences in the family, at office, school and others that can help to shape us as adults, personal development should not stop in the future.

The first and most important role of organization

An individual should see some benefit of self improvement in his respective organization. Remember, if an individual is investing his/her time to learn new things, he/she must get benefit from it. For example, Tom was a marketing executive with Organization A. He was associated with the same two years ago. He lacked the ability to lead a team and thus cannot be a team leader. One fine day, he realized his weakness and decided to work towards it. He read various articles on team leadership, building and surfed various websites that are relevant and even sat with his Boss for an hour every day to imbibe his style of working. Within six months, Tom not only have his own team but also got a huge hike in his salary for achieving targets within the desired time period. Employees who have the urge to improve themselves should be given their due credit. Encourage them accordingly and do give them special treatments. Make them feel special and also realize that it is only their dedication to constantly improve their knowledge which can helped them to do well and succeed and carve a niche of their own.

In addition, the employees need to be review on a regular basis and from time to time. We need to know where all our employees are lacking and also guide them accordingly to constantly improve their