Bernardo, Teddy P.
ZPD 111 – IT1F
20131122208
                                 Personality Development
                                           Prelim
       Personality development mainly focuses on the building blocks that helps to grow the
personality of an individual such as self-esteem, etiquette and basic manners that most of us
sometimes disregarded.
       The modules that were encountered by the students in the prelim of the semester were
basically divided in categories: self-esteem, table manners, common courtesy such as
answering the telephone, writing a thank you letter and etiquette.
       Self-esteem focuses on the development of the self confidence of an individual. It is
one of the primary factors on how an individual growth and associate within his/her
environment. Most of the people nowadays especially in the teenager level were lacking self-
esteem. Having a lack of confidence were also associate like having a disease that stopping
an individual to perform his/her tasks efficiently. This is because having a low level of self-
esteem sometimes hinders him/her to open-up with others about his ideas and how he feels
about the certain situation. To overcome this problem, there are many methods that can be
done. Such as consulting to a psychiatrist, talking with the relatives about the problem, self-
improvement such as writing down your strengths and weaknesses and how would you able
to develop your weaknesses into strengths and how would you be able to improve more your
strengths.
       In basic table manners, there were a lot of simple etiquette that were discussed in the
modules, in which most of us were discarded when we eat especially in fancy restaurants.
Even for non-occasional dinner, proper table manners must be observed. There are two
dining styles that were discussed namely, western and continental style. Whereas,
continental style is the commonly used while the western style is used by most American
countries.