Skills that Build, Enhance or Maintain Self-Efficacy

1. Skills that Build, Enhance or Maintain Self-Efficacy Week Nine

2. Topics • Coping With Change • Happiness / Subjective Well Being • Emotional Intelligence

3. Re-Visiting the Definitionof Self-Efficacy • Self-Efficacy • Confidence in the functioning of my mind • Confidence in our ability to think, understand, learn, choose and make decisions • Confidence in our ability to cope with the basic challenges of life • Earning a living • Take independent care of oneself in the world • Able to function effectively in interactions with other human beings • Ability to bounce back and regenerate • Self-trust; Self-reliance • A disposition to expect success for our efforts

4. Coping With Change • Resilience • Capacity • Exuberance • Mental Rehearsal

5. Happiness(a.k.a. Subjective Well Being) • RICH theory: The promotion of happiness • Resources • Intimacy • Competence • Health

6. Characteristics Of Those Who Experience High SWB • Independent • Self-confident • Decisive • Sociable • Personal warmth • Active • Optimistic

7. What Is Associated With SWB? • Marriage • Marriage serves as a buffer against hardships of life, and provides economic and emotional support • Job satisfaction • Offers optimal levels of stimulation that people find pleasurable • source of positive social relationships • offers a sense of identity and meaning • Exercise • experience of success, personal growth • social interaction • endorphins

8. The SWB Triad • Commitment • Skill • Achievement • Main Sources Of Joy • relationships with friends • basic pleasures of food, drink and sex • success experiences • time spent in nature

9. Six Characteristics of Fulfilled People and Dreams • Fulfilled people understand the difference between the dream and its realization. • Fulfilled people understand that the size of the dream determines the size of the gap. • Fulfilled people keep dreaming while making the journey. • Fulfilled people appreciate each step forward in the journey. • Fulfilled people make new discoveries while living the gap. • Fulfilled people buy in to the natural law of balance: life is both good and bad. from Put Your Dream to the Test by John C Maxwell

10. Emotional Intelligence • Emotional identification, perception and expression • Emotional facilitation of thought • Emotional understanding • Emotional management

11. Emotional Intelligence 1. Emotional identification, perception and expression • The ability to perceive and identify emotions in faces, tone of voice, body language • The capacity for self-awareness: being aware of your own feelings as they are occurring • The capacity for emotional literacy. Being able to label specific feelings in yourself and others; being able to discuss emotions and communicate clearly and directly.

12. Emotional Intelligence 2. Emotional facilitation of thought • The ability to incorporate feelings into analysis, reasoning, problem solving and decision making • The potential of your feelings to guide you to what is important to think about

13. Emotional Intelligence 3. Emotional understanding • The ability to solve emotional problems • The ability to identify and understand the inter-relationships between emotions, thoughts and behavior. • For example, to see cause and effect relationships such as • how thoughts can affect emotions or • how emotions can affect thoughts, and • how your emotions can lead to the behavior in yourself and others. • The ability to understand the value of emotions to the survival of the species

14. Emotional Intelligence 4. Emotional management • The ability to take responsibility for one's own emotions and happiness • The ability to turn negative emotions into positive learning and growing opportunities • The ability to help others identify and benefit from their emotions