1. Leadership Through Personality Awareness
Understand yourself & Others To Develop Interpersonal Skills
By:
DR MANOJ KUMAR BHAMBU
Associate Professor
GCCBA-50, Chandigarh

2. Leadership defined
Leaders are dealers in hope.
NAPOLIAN BONAPARTE

4. PERSONALITY DEFINED
Personality can be defined as physical, mental, emotional and spiritual make up of a person.
Every person has a unique blend of different characteristics, hence, each one of us has a unique personality.

5. TYPES OF PERSONALITIES
Powerful Choleric
Popular Sanguine
Perfect Melancholy
Peaceful Phlegmatic
Personality Types

6. POPULAR SANGUINE: The Extrovert; The Talker; The Optimist
Popular Sanguine Emotions:
Appealing Personality
Talkative, Storyteller
Life of the party
Good sense of humour
Memory of Colour
Physically holds on to listener
Emotional and demonstrative

7. Popular Sanguine Emotions: (cont.)
Enthusiastic and Expressive
Cheerful and Bubbling
Over-curious
Good on Stage
Wide Eyed and Innocent
Sincere at Heart
Always a Child

8. Popular Sanguine at Work
Volunteers for jobs
Thinks up new activities
Looks great on the surface
Creative and colourful
Has energy and enthusiasm
Starts in a flashy manner
Inspires others to join
Charms others to work

9. Popular Sanguine as a Friend
Makes friend easily
Loves people
Thrives on compliments
Seems exciting
Envied by others
Does not hold grudges
Apologizes quickly
Likes spontaneous activities

10. Problems with Popular Sanguine
POPULAR SANGUINE TALK TOO MUCH
Talk half as much as before
Watch for sign of boredom
Condense your comments
Stop exaggerating

11. POPULAR SANGUINES HAVE UNCULTIVATED MEMORIES
Pay attention to names
Write things down
Do not forget children/friends/things
REMEMBER
“ Even though you can rationalize why you have a bad memory, no one wants to hear about it.”

12. POPULAR SANGUINE INTERRUPTS AND ANSWERS FOR OTHERS
Do not think you must fill all the gaps
REMEMBER
“One who interrupts and answers for the others is rude and inconsiderate, and after a while, unwelcome.”

13. POPULAR SANGUINE IS DISORGANISED AND IMMATURE
Pull your life together
Grow up

14. REMEMBER The popular Sanguine needs a Saviour.
Without divine help how can he:
Curb his tongue.
Control his ego.
Not think too highly of himself.
Cultivate his memory.
(the Holy Spirit gives remembrance.)
Concern himself with others.
Look out for others and not for himself.
Count the cost.

15. POWERFUL CHOLERIC PERSONALITY The Extrovert The Doer The Optimist
POWERFUL CHOLERIC’S EMOTIONS
Born leader, Dynamic and Active
Compulsive need for change
Must Correct Wrongs
Strong willed and decisive,
Unemotional
Not easily Discouraged
Independent and Self-sufficient
Exudes Confidence
Can run anything

16. Powerful Choleric AT Work
Goal Oriented
Sees the Whole Picture
Organizes well
Seeks Practical Solutions
Moves Quickly to Actions
Delegates Work
Insists on Production
Stimulates Activity
Thrives on Opposition

17. Powerful Choleric as Friends
Has little needs for friends
Will work for group activity
Will Lead and Organise
Is usually Right
Excel in Emergencies

18. PROBLEMS WITH POWERFUL CHOLERIC
POWERFUL CHOLERICS ARE COMPULSIVE WORKER
Learn to relax
Take the pressure off others
Plan leisure activities
REMEMBER:
You can feel relaxed and need not to feel guilty

19. POWERFUL CHOLERICS MUST BE IN CONTROL
Respond to other leadership
Do not look down on the dummies
Stop manipulating

20. POWERFUL CHOLERICS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE PEOPLE
Practice Patience
Keep advice until Asked
Tone down your approach
Stop arguing and causing trouble
REMEMBER:
No one likes an impatient, bossy troublemaker.

21. POWERFUL CHOLERICS ARE RIGHT BUT UNPOPULAR
Let someone else be right
Learn to apologise
Admit you have some faults
REMEMBER:
If only the Powerful Choleric would open his mind to examine his weakness and admit he has a few, he could become the perfect person he thinks he is.

22. Perfect Melancholy Personality The Introvert The Thinker The Pessimist
PERFECT MELANCHOLY’S EMOTIONS
Deep and Thoughtful, Analytical
Serious and Purposeful
Genius Prone, Talented and Creative
Artistic & Musical, Philosophical & Poetic
Appreciative of Beauty
Sensitive to Others
Conscientious and Idealistic

23. Perfect Melancholy’s At Work
Schedule Oriented, Detail conscious
Perfectionist, High Standard
Orderly and Organised
Neat and tidy, Economical
Sees the Problem
Find Creative Solutions
Needs to Finish what is Started
Like Charts, Graphs, Figures, Lists

24. Perfect Melancholy as Friends
Makes Friends Cautiously
Content to stay in background
Avoid Causing Attention
Faithful and Devoted
Will Listen to Complaints
Can Solve other’s Problems
Deep Concern for Other People
Moved to Tear with Compassion
Seeks Ideal Mate

25. Problems with Perfect Melancholies
PERFECT MELANCHOLIES ARE EASILY DEPRESSED
Realise no one likes gloomy people
Do not look for trouble
Do not get hurt so easily
Look for the positives
Read
Blow Away the Black Clouds
REMEMBER:
Accentuate the positives, Eliminate the negatives

26. PERECT MELANCHOLY HAVE LOW SELF-IMAGES
Search out the source of your insecurity
Listen for the evidence of false humility
REMEMBER:
Perfect Melancholies have the greatest potential for success. Do not be your own worst enemy.

27. PERFECT MELANCHOLIES PROCRASTINATE
Get the right things before starting
Do not spend so much time planning
REMEMBER:
If Perfect Melancholies did not spend so much time in planning, they would not force the rest of us incompetents to go ahead without preparation and so notch up intricate work!

28. PERFECT MELANCHOLIES PUT UNREALISTIC DEMAND ON OTHERS:
Relax your standards
Be grateful
You understand Your Temperament
REMEMBER:
Not everything in life can be perfect, so relax.

29. Peaceful Phlegmatic Personality The Introvert The watcher The pessimist
PEACEFUL PHELGMATIC’S EMOTIONS:
Low Key Personality,
Easy Going and Relaxed
Calm, Cool and Collected
Patient, Well Balanced
Consistent Life, Quiet and Witty
Sympathetic and Kind
Keeps Emotions Hidden
Happily Reconciled to Life
All Purpose Person

30. Peaceful Phlegmatic at Work
Competent and Steady
Has Administrative Ability
Mediates Problems
Avoid Conflicts
Good under Pressure
Find the Easy Way

31. Peaceful Phlegmatic as Friends
Easy to get along with
Pleasant and enjoyable
Inoffensive
Good listener
Dry sense of humour
Enjoys watching people
Has many friends
Has compassion and concern

32. Let’s Motivate Peaceful Phlegmatic
PEACEFUL PHLEGMATIC ARE NOT EXICITING
Try to get enthused
Try something new
Learn to accept responsibility for your life

33. PEACEFUL PHLEGMATICS APPEAR WISHY- WASHY
Practice making decisions
Learn to say no

34. How Personality Awareness Going to Help You
By Knowing ones own strengths and weaknesses
By Knowing strengths and weaknesses of People around you
By assigning right work to right person
By empowering your followers by helping them overcoming their weaknesses

35. Will This Lecture is Going to Help You
Yes No
Do not know

36. What I Know for Sure Is that
YOU DESERVE
TO BE RECOGNISED
AS AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
IN YOUR ORGANISATION

37. Any Question ???

38. THANK YOU