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(Valuable Intrapersonal Skills)

Jona Ann B. Refugia

Instructor
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the meaning of intrapersonal skills.
2. Use and identify the importance of your own
intrapersonal skills.
3. Reflect to these skills.
 Do you ever notice how some people seem
to have a clear sense of self, including a good
understanding of their own motivations,
desires, strengths, and weaknesses? They’re
the sort of folks that can easily size up a
situation and figure out what’s most important
to them and start working toward a goal.
 People who are self-motivated, focused, and
confident are said to have great intrapersonal
skills. Those people exude self-confidence because
they are confident. They know who they are and
what they are capable of producing and creating.
Others seem to naturally gravitate toward them
because they carry an air of strength and
positivity everywhere they go.
 What Are Intrapersonal Skills?
Intrapersonal skills are all about self-awareness
and controlling your own internal attitudes and inner
processes. Your intrapersonal skills form the
foundation on which you build your relationships with
others because they help you more easily navigate your
interpersonal relationships.
 So, interpersonal vs. intrapersonal skills, which one is more
important? Your intrapersonal communication skills and 
interpersonal skills are deeply connected. Both contribute to your
emotional intelligence and your ability to communicate your
needs, goals, and ideas to others in an effective way. Your
interpersonal skills are essential for collaboration, leadership,
and influence – but you can’t project those qualities until you
develop good intrapersonal skills.
Some of the most important intrapersonal skills include:
 Analytical Thinking
Delegation
Productivity
Resilience
Resourcefulness
Strategic Thinking
Vision
 These are soft skills that aren’t learned in a classroom.
Instead, they’re a product of introspection and self-reflection
combined with a constant revision of the way you project yourself
to the world. Like your technical skills, however, intrapersonal
skills are an essential part of your professional tools.
 Why Are Strong Intrapersonal Skills Vital for Your Career?
When you have strong intrapersonal skills, you take personal
responsibility for your own feelings and emotions. This mindset is
also known as intrapersonal intelligence. You learn how to focus
your attention, set priorities and goals, and engage in purposeful
thinking and problem-solving. When something goes differently
than you expect, you know how to respond with a thoughtful,
intentional strategy to achieve a positive outcome.
 It’s easy to understand why teams and companies
want people who have the internal strength to
approach every challenge or setback as an opportunity
for growth. Their growth mindset enables them to stay
flexible, open to new information, and willing to look
for creative solutions to their obstacles. Their
motivation comes from within and is naturally
infectious to others.
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 Exemplary Examples of Intrapersonal Skills

Many of the world’s most charismatic leaders can communicate

their visions and influence others simply because they have highly-
developed intrapersonal skills and a profound emotional
intelligence. From tech giants like Microsoft to agile startups like 
Simple Habit, interpersonal communication plays a key role in
scaling success. Successful people see challenges as opportunities to
gain new information and grow. Some high-profile people you may
recognize include:
 
 Resilience: Mary Barra, the first female CEO of an
automobile manufacture, Barra never set out to get to the top of
General Motors. Instead, she focused on simply doing her best
work. Through her hard work and resilience, she ultimately rose
to the top of a typically male-dominated industry
 
 Vision: Musk is working to revolutionize transportation technology
– both here on Earth and in space. His drive and ability to
communicate his unique vision of the future has propelled him to the 
top of the list when it comes to who people see as the most influential in
tech today
 How Can You Improve Your Intrapersonal Skills?

The guiding force of your intrapersonal skills is awareness –

awareness of your innermost beliefs and the goals that drive you and
awareness of how you are perceived by others.
 
 Yet, it can be incredibly difficult to figure out how you’re
seen by others because they don’t tell you. Without that kind of
information, your internal concept of yourself may not match
what you project to your peers.
Fortunately, you can get the feedback you need simply by
asking! People will usually share their thoughts and impressions
if they’re given a chance to do so. Regular, consistent feedback
can help you adjust the way that you convey yourself in the
workplace so that your inner strengths are clearly visible to
others.
Regular feedback can help you embrace a growth mindset
and overcome both the internal and external limitations that are
holding you back.
 
 
Why Is Continuous Feedback Vital?

Personal growth isn’t achieved overnight. A single performance

review only tells you how you were perceived within a specific
timeframe. Once you adjust your way of communicating and
interacting with others based on that review, you need more feedback
to determine if the changes you made helped (or hurt). You can work
hard at being more self-aware and conscious of how you project
yourself to others, but you need continuous feedback to gauge how
much progress you’re making.
 
 
 How to build intrapersonal Skills
These skills, which relate to emotional intelligence, include things like:
self-confidence
resilience
self-discipline
persistence
openness to new ideas
the ability to overcome distractions
time management
 
 Why they’re important

You may have noticed these skills all have something to do with
your ability to self-regulate.
People with strong self-regulation abilities often have an easier
time:
• managing behavior and emotions
• weathering challenges
• working toward goals in spite of distractions
 
 Unlike interpersonal skills like active listening, intrapersonal skills
may have less of an immediate impact on your interactions with others.
But they’re still essential.
Don’t worry if these skills don’t come to you naturally. It’s
absolutely possible to cultivate intrapersonal intelligence. The 10 tips
below can help.
 
 Make (and keep) a schedule
Do responsibilities and to-do lists overwhelm you?
Maybe you frequently forget about commitments or let chores you dislike
pile up because you never feel like doing them.
 
 It’s hard to get started when you have no idea where to begin. You
keep putting things off, but of course that leaves you with less time to
handle all those (potentially unpleasant) tasks.
If you tend to stray off task when you have a lot to do, try creating
a schedule that includes work commitments and appointments along
with social activities, household chores, and self-care, like exercise and 
relaxation.
 This can help because:
having reminders of everything you need to complete can help keep you
on track despite distractions
scheduling enjoyable activities reminds you there’s more to look forward
to than that mountain of laundry
After a few weeks, you might notice a change in how you 
manage your time— even without the help of a schedule.
 Redirect your natural talents
Very few people are naturally good at everything, and that’s OK!
But you probably have some specific strengths, even if you don’t
recognize them yet.
Maybe you have a knack for patience with small children or rude
co-workers, but you’re less patient with yourself when you make
mistakes.
Or perhaps you’re a fantastic problem-solver at work but have a
hard time addressing difficulties in your personal life.
 It’s common to direct emotional skills outward in ways that benefit
others and fail to apply those same skills to your own experiences.
This can make it seem like you lack those skills, when really you
just find it easier to help other people. But you deserve that same
support.
Start practicing these strengths by considering what you’d do for
someone else in your situation.
If you’d encourage a friend to stick with something challenging, for
example, direct that persistence toward yourself instead of giving up.
 Give meditation a try
Meditation can help you learn to mindfully recognize and accept what
you’re thinking and feeling without getting trapped in 
negative thought spirals or self-judgment.
It’s a go-to practice for many people looking to increase emotional
awareness.
Its key benefits include:
• relaxation
• stress reliefTrusted Source
• improved sleepTrusted Source
 Maybe these effects don’t directly help you reconnect with yourself.
But they can contribute to improved physical and emotional wellness.
Feeling mentally and physically strong can help boost your internal
resolve, making it easier to work through tough situations.
 Meditation also has other benefits more relevant to increased self-
awareness:
It can help you focus your attention more effectively, which may lead to 
improved concentrationTrusted Source in all areas of life.
Increased mindfulness may factor intoTrusted Source your
willingness to consider new ways to solve problems.
Make time for self-reflection
Self-reflection might seem like a pretty big undertaking. And yes,
it can cover a lot of ground.
But it really just involves thinking over your actions, choices, and
the things important in your life, including personal values and loved
ones.
When you self-reflect, you might pay attention to what habits work
well for you and where you experience challenges.
 Maybe you:
avoid friends instead of leaning on them when struggling
procrastinate on tasks at work when you don’t understand them
The process can also help reinforce your knowledge of the people
and things that really matter.
This gives you the chance to explore new ways to achieve or hold
on to those things.
For example, your friends mean a lot to you, so you decide you
need to find a coping method that doesn’t involve shutting them out.
 Keep a journal
Journaling can help you connect with yourself on a deep emotional level
by providing a tangible record of thoughts and feelings to look back on
later Your journal is a written record of you. It provides
a great space to keep track of important goals, emotions, and your
overall daily experience.
It also helps you pinpoint things you want to address, like low self-
confidence or lack of motivation.
Keeping a journal can also demonstrate growth over time.
When you doubt your internal abilities or feel as if you haven’t
accomplished much, glancing back through months or years past can
show you where your skills shone through.
 Maybe you handled a crisis well or had the resilience to bounce
back from a painful breakup, for example.

Cultivate compassion
Increasing compassion for others can help you get more in tune
with your own emotional experience and help your self-compassion
 flourish.
Compassion doesn’t always come easily. It’s often especially
difficult to have compassion for people who treat others badly and
demonstrate unkind, uncaring behavior.
 But the saying “Put yourself in their shoes” is always a good place
to start. Considering another person’s perspective often provides
insight on why they might act in a certain way.
Performing a random act of kindness can also help promote
positive feelings toward others and yourself.
It also helps to remember everyone makes mistakes.
If you feel shame or guilt about something you regret doing,
remember we all do things we wish we could erase. Life doesn’t grant
do-overs, but you can always try again.
 The second (or third) time around, you’ll have more knowledge
and experience, increasing your chances of getting it right.
Compassion and other self-awareness skills make it easier
to:recognize where you went wrong
accept that underlying factors and personal difficulties often make it
tough to make the best choice in every situation believe that most
people (including yourself) are trying to do the best they can with what
they have
 Practice positive self-talk
The way you talk to yourself and think about yourself can have a
big impact on your internal experience.
Negative thought patterns and harsh self-criticism may seem like a
good way to motivate yourself and hold yourself accountable for
mistakes, but more often than not, these have the opposite effect.
Instead of mentally chewing yourself out when you mess up, try
taking a look at where you succeeded instead. What went right for you?
It’s still wise to note where you might have room to grow. But 
praising yourself for strengths and achievements can help you
approach these weaker points with more confidence and determination.
 Doing so can help it become easier to try again later.

Take chances
Trying something new can be scary. It often seems safer to stick with what
you know already works.
But sometimes a little risk can pay off, whether you’re:
trying to help a relationship thrive
launching into a new career
picking up a new hobby
 Following the same routines can hold you back and keep you from
exploring alternatives that could fulfill your needs even more
effectively.

Risk-taking that ends in success can boost self-confidence and

motivate you to keep trying new things.
But taking chances that don’t work out can lead to progress.
You’re still building traits like resilience and persistence, since
making it through setbacks shows you it’s always possible to keep going
and try again.
 Consider your goals 
Goals say a lot about who you are as a person and what drives you.
They help inform your choices and shape your life.
It’s important to have goals, both for the immediate and more
distant future.
Success with smaller goals, like breaking an unwanted habit or 
reading a book every month, can empower you to make broader goals
that require long-term effort, such as reducing your carbon footprint
or becoming a completely honest person.
Realistic goals take into account your limitations and personal
strengths.
 Recognizing your past accomplishments furthers self-awareness
while also bolstering your courage to take bigger steps with future
goals.
Thinking about the person you want to become can help you
continue setting goals to achieve those dreams.
 Talk to a therapist

It’s not always easy to expand emotional intelligence on your own,

especially if you only have a vague idea of the traits you want to
strengthen.
With the help of a therapist, you can often increase self-awareness
as you identify challenges or areas of concern that pop up in your
thoughts and habits.
A therapist can also help you link specific patterns back to
intrapersonal skills and offer guidance on areas worthy of further
exploration.
For example, if you struggle to forgive yourself for mistakes you’ve
made, a therapist can help you relate this to inner self-compassion and
teach skills to boost self-kindness.
 Talk to a therapist

It’s not always easy to expand emotional intelligence on your own,

especially if you only have a vague idea of the traits you want to
strengthen.
With the help of a therapist, you can often increase self-awareness
as you identify challenges or areas of concern that pop up in your
thoughts and habits.
A therapist can also help you link specific patterns back to
intrapersonal skills and offer guidance on areas worthy of further
exploration.
For example, if you struggle to forgive yourself for mistakes you’ve
made, a therapist can help you relate this to inner self-compassion and
teach skills to boost self-kindness.
Assess yourself by identifying your own
intrapersonal skills.Write them down below.
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3.
From the list of identified intrapersonal skills above,
write example on how it will be used and impotant in
teaching EPP or teaching?
 Thanks!

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