PSY 301: Individual Development Plan

Individual Development Plan
Ricky McNeal
PSY/301
December 9th, 2012
Maria Cuddy-Casey
Individual Development Plan
When it comes to understanding emotions, individual development of emotional intelligence is detrimental. Individual development plan will help an organizations, supervision, employees, and customers. The benefit of an emotionally intelligent person is the ability to manage an experience with someone positively. Five basic competencies will help an individual development plan which includes self-awareness, motivation, regulation, relationships, and empathy. The five basic competencies help deal with emotions of an individual towards others. When an emotionally intelligent individual understands emotions, versatility can be
According to Pathway to Happiness website, “is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self-Awareness allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment” (Pathway to Happiness, 2012). When an individual can understand their own weaknesses, strengths, thoughts, and what motivates them. Learning from mistakes is a benefit from self-awareness. Development of self-awareness starts with character, reaction, and attention to detail. Direction of how an individual is thinking helps understand thoughts. Self-awareness in regards to relationships helps understand emotional changes, thoughts, and emotional state or quality. Development of personality helps deal with attention of peoples. Limiting the amount of uninformed decisions helps emotional state. Thinking about what is going to get said or done is the best way to communicate. Respect for relationships depends on the ability to communicate. When someone is unable to control anger they tend to miss out on good relationships. Learning from mistakes can help build character, relationship quality, and controlling anger along with the cause of
Self-regulation is difficult to control and takes a great deal of practice. Self-regulation stops negative emotions from getting the best of someone. According to Steven Stosny, “self-regulation skill is necessary for reliable emotional well-being. Behaviorally, self-regulation is the ability to act in your long-term best interest, consistent with your deepest values. Emotionally, self-regulation is the ability to calm yourself down when you 're upset and cheer yourself up when you 're down” (Stosny, 2011). The benefit of self-regulation is when an individual has goals there are usually internal and have a process of achieving future endeavors. Self-regulation is understood once an individual understands circumstances and experiences of situation that have happened. Attention to detail, management of thoughts, character, and attention span. Self-monitoring is an important aspect for individual emotional intelligence. Setting goals and controlling behavior influence short term and long term goals. Self-regulation helps internal and external situations that help strategy of appropriate