Traits

Personality

Cultivating these personality traits will help you to become more confident

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:

• Deal with difficult situations with calmness
• Be cheerful
• Be pleasant
• Be easy to get along with
• Have a healthy attitude toward life

CONTROL YOUR TEMPER:

• Cultivate desirable characteristics
• Discard unwanted characteristics

EMOTIONAL STABILITY:

• Practice self-control
• Strive for emotional balance
• Develop emotional stability
• Suppress signs of unpleasant emotions – facial grimaces, gestures of anger, impatience, envy or greed

GRACIOUSNESS:

• Display pleasant emotions
• Greet people with a smile & welcoming words
• Assume the responsibilities of friendship
• Fit in to new situations
• Meet new people with friendliness

POLITENESS:

• Be thoughtful of others
• Be polite
• Practice all the little things: please, thank-you, respect, care of other people’s property
• Be tolerant & understanding of other people’s efforts
• Be considerate of those around you

SENSE OF HUMOUR:

• Cultivate your sense of humour
• Take yourself less seriously
• Laugh at yourself – it shows that you are open & approachable
• Develop a pleasant personality

VOICE & CONVERSATION:

• A pleasant voice is needed to project a friendly feeling
• Use  a fluent & pleasing properly pitched tone of voice
• Don’t use a dull voice

YOUR VOICE SHOULD CONVEY:

1. Sincerity
2. Intelligence
3. Friendliness
4. Vitality
5. Flexibility
6. Expressiveness

TONE OF VOICE:

Expresses your individual personality & betrays your emotions of anger, joy, hate, love, jealousy, friendliness & envy

• Should be clear & understandable
• With volume, not harsh
• Practice mellow thinking

CONVERSATIONAL EASE:

• Don’t be argumentative
• Be a good listener
• Don’t control the conversation
• Use simple, understandable language
• Be pleasant
• Use good English
• Keep up with current affairs – newspaper, radio etc

AVOID THESE TRAITS:

Intimidating others by acting superior
Avoid sarcastic remarks
Never ridicule people
Control your temper
Don't be rude to others
Never start an argument
Don't talk continually about yourself
Never spread gossip about anyone
Avoid swearing, slang & poor grammar
Don't control the conversation