1. EQ: How do heredity and environment influence personality?

2. Personality
Personality – an individuals unique pattern of characteristics
It is what makes you different from others
There are many influences on a person’s personality
What do you think can influence someone’s personality?

3. Influences on Personality
Heredity – Helps determine your intellectual abilities, temperament and talents
Heredity influences:
Athletic ability
Artistic capability
The degree in which you are resilient

4. Influences on Personality
Environment – your environment is everything that is around you
Where you live
Who you live with
Influences the opportunities you have
With a partner talk about: How can your environment influence the opportunities you have?

5. Influences on Personality
Attitude – the feeling or emotion a person has toward something or someone
Your attitude affects the things you chose to do
Behavior – Your behavior is what you do
What you do influences your personality

6. Personality Type
Personality Type – a person’s usual way of focusing energy, gathering information, making decisions and getting work done
Personality is different than Personality Type
It is important to know and understand your personality type

7. Importance of Personality Type
It helps you understand yourself
You get a better grasp of how you approach and respond to people and things
Helps with interactions
Helps you improve your chances of working effectively and successfully alone or with others

8. 4 Dimensions of Personality
How do you focus Energy
Are you introverted – Energized by people and things
Are you extroverted – Energized by ideas and images
How do you gather information
Are you sensing – Tangible information that you gather from senses
Are you intuitive – You give more weight to information than insight and imagination

9. 4 Dimensions of Personality
How do you make decisions
By thinking – Decisions based on facts
By feeling – Decisions based on “gut”
How do you get work done
By judging – Structured and organized
By perceiving – flexible and adaptable preferring open ended deadlines

10. Personality Test Complete the personality test
When you are finished we will go over the 16 different personality types