PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

IN ETHICAL
PROFESSIONALISM
NEXIM
FRANDEK INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING LIMITED
BY
DR. FRANCISCA ODEKA

BSC, MSC: MASS COMM, PHD: SOCIAL POLICY

AND
BARRISTER BABAJIDE MARTINS
LLM (LEICESTER), MBA (LEICESTER)

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
IN ETHICAL
PROFESSIONALISM

NEXIM
FRANDEK INTERNATIONAL
CONSULTING LIMITED
BY

DR. FRANCISCA ODEKA BSC, MSC: MASS COMM, PHD: SOCIAL

POLICY

Sessions
Principles and concept of Personal Effectiveness in

corporate leadership
Personal Effectiveness as a key focus of Ethical

Professionalism
Mechanism and Templates for Ensuring Personal

Effectiveness in Ethical Professionalism

Building a Personal Effectiveness and Ethical
Professionalism Template

The Common Denominator of Success

Successful people have the habit of doing
things failures dont like to do. They
dont like doing them either, necessarily,
but their disliking is subordinated to the
strength of their purpose.
- Albert Gray

MODULE LAYOUT
The Personal Effectiveness Module covers four critical
areas:
PART A: Principles and concept of Personal Effectiveness
in corporate leadership
PART B: Personal Effectiveness as a key focus of Ethical

Professionalism
PART C: Mechanism and Templates for Ensuring

Personal Effectiveness in Ethical Professionalism

PART D: Building a Personal Effectiveness and Ethical

Professionalism Template

PART A
PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPT OF
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP

WHAT MAKES A PERSON?

A Person is made up of Paradigms and
Principles:
Paradigms These are personalized
frame of reference
Principles These govern the world of
said person
NOTE WORTHY
Principles of effectiveness can be learnt
Principles of ineffectiveness can be
unlearnt

EFFECTIVENESS
Efficiency:
Performing tasks and activities with the below
listed attributes:
Speed, Accuracy

Effectiveness:
Doing the right things required of you as a NEXIM
Bank employee
Impact the Organisation and other employees
positively
Achieving the results that are desired

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Personal effectiveness is strongly
influenced by personal qualities such as
perseverance, self control and skills in
getting along with other employees in
the NEXIM Bank workspace
(interpersonal skills).
Personal effectiveness is an integral part
of Ethical professionalism.

THE FIRST LEVEL

Personal Vision
Personal Leadership
Personal Management

PERSONAL VISION
Personal Vision is a private creation of an individual.
Having a Personal vision is the drive behind
ethical professionalism. It requires:

Mental creation before physical creation

Utilizing imagination
Developing a personal mission, philosophy and credo
in line with NEXIM Banks vision and mission

Acceptance of responsibilities
Responsibility response ability(The ability to choose
your response)

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
Personal Leadership in personal
effectiveness means to:

Have a clear understanding of your desired

direction and destination as a NEXIM Bank
employee

Determine what is supremely important and

use it to evaluate any decision or action

To climb the ladder of success

What is a Personal Vision Statement

A statement of long term aspiration
A Statement of what you want to be or do that transcends

your immediate capacity but aligns with some latent potential

The monumental change you could foresee that will happen

to the society at large by your action/idea or dream but that is

truly challenging.
A picture of distant outcome that is bigger than your current

capabilities.

Personal Management
Personal Management means to plan,
highlight and set long and short term
goals for oneself.
It comprises of:
Organizing and Managing time and events
Taking cognizance of personal baselines and

performance indicators for measuring

performance.
Putting first things first (prioritizing)

Time Management
Time Management is a critical tool for personal
effectiveness and ethical professionalism. Finishing
tasks on time and arriving early consistently is an
integral part of ethical professionalism.
Good time management has always been an

important skill that separates the achieving from

the underachieving employee
It

involves utilizing time to create maximum

personal effectiveness and efficiency.

Urgent

. Crisis
. Pressing
problems
. Deadline-driven
projects,
meetings,
preparations
. Interruptions,
some
phone calls
. Some mail, some
reports
. Some meetings
. Many proximate,
pressing matters
. Many popular
activities

II
I

Not
Important

Important

First Things should be First

Not Urgent

II

. Preparation
. Prevention
. Values
clarification
. Planning
. Relationship
building
. True re-creation
.. Trivia, busywork
.Empowerment
Some phone calls
. Time wasters
. Escape
activities
. Irrelevant mail
. Excessive TV

IV

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The Key Is
Not To
Prioritize
Your
Schedule
But
To
Schedule
Your
Priorities

Time Manager Matrix

I - Procrastinator
IIUrgent
Prioritizer
Important
Not
Urgent
IV
- Slacker
Important
III Yes Man
Not Urgent
Urgent
Not
Not Important
Important
What is making you use time inefficiently ?
The enemy within
The enemy without
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Prioritize Your Priorities

Pareto principle is called the 20-80% rule.
It attempts at attributing significant outcome to a vital few

factors, leveraging the findings from Vilfredo Paretos

economic research in 1906
The 80/20 principle asserts that for many events, roughly
80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
It is the Law of the Vital Few controlling a significant
output. All things may appear important, but some are
more important than others.
Some many things may appear very significant to achieving
desired results but in reality only few things will take us to
our goal

Prioritize Your Priorities

Pareto Principle is a key personal effectiveness
technique and outputs from using it could include:
80 per cent of interruptions come from 20 per cent

of the people
80 per cent of an equipment budget comes from
20 per cent of the items
80 per cent of benefit comes from the first 20 per
cent of effort
80 per cent of complaints are about 20 per cent of
your services

Prioritize Your Priorities contd.

80 per cent of your time is spent on 20% of the

problem
80 per cent of the decisions made in meetings
come from 20 per cent of the meeting time
80 per cent of innovation comes from 20 per cent
of the staff
80 per cent of staff problems come from 20 per
cent of the staff
80 per cent of your success comes from 20 per cent
of your efforts

Become a Proactive Person

There are two major types of people in the
world:

Those that make things happen.

And those that wait to react to what has happened.

EXERCISE 1
How can Goal setting develop Personal

Effectiveness?
What is the role of Time Management in

developing Personal Effectiveness?

20 MINUTES

PART B

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS AS A
KEY FOCUS OF ETHICAL
PROFESSIONALISM

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS AS A KEY

FOCUS OF ETHICAL PROFESSIONALISM
Personal effectiveness is a key requirement for

ethical professionalism
NEXIM Bank Employees who desire to become
ethical professionals must seek out personal
development through undergoing high quality
training, self-study and playing mentee in a
mentoring and coaching workplace relationship.
The learning process is something you can
incite, literally incite, like a riot.
-AudreLorde

CHECKLIST
To begin the journey right on becoming personally
effective, employees must identify their problem areas.
A good place to start would be:
Clarify your objectives and priorities.
Plan
Prioritize
Delegate
Review how you work.
Make time for relaxation.

THE SECOND LEVEL

The second level of Personal
Effectiveness comprises of learning the
following skills:
Interpersonal skills
Communication skills
Creative Cooperation skills

WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Work-life balance is an integrated

blending of the needs of an
organisation with the private
commitment of self and other
employees.

EXERCISE 2

How can Personal Effectiveness enhance

Ethical Professionalism?
What is the role of Work Life Balance in

Personal Effectiveness?
20 MINUTES

PART C

MECHANISM AND TEMPLATES FOR

ENSURING PERSONAL
EFFECTIVENESS IN ETHICAL
PROFESSIONALISM

MECHANISM AND TEMPLATES FOR ENSURING

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN
ETHICAL
PROFESSIONALISM

The Personal Effectiveness mechanism comprises

harnessing the power of the following steps:
Prioritising and planning
How do you efficiently and effectively manage your
workload, time and NEXIM Banks resources?
Do you have measures in place for managing
unexpected addition work or distractions?
Quality assurance
How do you take the initiative when required
Do you thoroughly check your work before
submission for approval?

MECHANISM AND TEMPLATES contd.

Development of working relationships
Are you effective at getting the best out of your
colleagues?
Is there something you could do better to improve
your results?
Development of skills and knowledge
What steps are you taking outside of the NEXIM
Bank workplace to increase your knowledge and skill
set?

MECHANISM AND TEMPLATES contd.

Professionalism

What is your attitude in the NEXIM Bank

workspace?
How well are you adapting to the NEXIM

Bank organisational culture?

THE NEXT LEVEL

Self Renewal: After going through the

first two levels, there will be a marked

improvement in effectiveness.
Features of this level include the

following:
Self Improvement
Sustained Performance and Results
True Effectiveness

EXERCISE 3
James and John work in the same department and

have been attending the same personal effectiveness

trainings over the past 5 years.
However,

John
shows
considerably
more
improvement in the targeted personal effectiveness
training areas than James.

What could be the reason(s) behind Johns increased

personal
effectiveness
performance?

and

20 MINUTES

James

lower

CONCLUSION:
Personal Effectiveness means taking cognizance of

personal baselines (gaps and aspirations), setting

goals and developing a strategy for reaching goals
and closing gaps.
Consistent Self development and overall skill

enhancement should be the priority of every

NEXIM employee.
Personal Effectiveness is a core criterion of Ethical

Professionalism