Personal Quality Initiative (PQI)
After identifying your strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats that you face from the outside world, you will be wondering as to how you will tackle all these problems. Since you have identified your problem areas, it is very easy to weed out the problems. There are certain mechanisms that come handy to solve your problems. The mechanisms have more to do with your behaviour or habit, and are useful tools of self- development.
One such tool is the Personal Quality Initiative (PQI). You always want to inculcate some new habits or improve upon some of the tasks that you perform regularly. In PQI, you will identify various parameters to improve your habits.
A parameter is defined as the framing of few good practices that you would like to acquire and some ineffective practices that you would like to cast off in your personal and professional life. You can use the PQI tool to identify meaningful parameters and to give you a simple mechanism, where problems/improvement areas are the input and well-defined parameters are the outputs. There are many techniques and approaches that can be utilized to improve personal quality.
Adhere to the following steps that should be followed as an approach to self- improvement:
1. Identify the shortcomings: Identify the defects or shortcomings that you want to improve in yourself. List the improvement areas in the following spheres of your life:
Self: You may want to improve your behaviour and habits. For instance, you tend to get angry over extremely trivial matters. Consequently, you react in the heat of the moment and regret the reaction later.
Family: You may not have harmonious relations with your spouse, siblings, cousins, or relatives, and you wish to improve the same.
Health: You may have a disease or an ailment that you want to eradicate.
Social: You may not have cordial relations with your friends or neighbours, and you wish to improve the same.
2. Set up measurement: Select any one of the preceding areas on which you wish to work. Then, use a check sheet to quantify the problem and define it as clearly as possible. Suppose you select the problem - “I tend to get angry over trivial matters”. Now, quantify it in terms of the number of days in a week or month that you got angry.
3. Identify the possible causes: List the probable causes of the problem. You can use the fishbone diagram that will enable you to classify the causes or likely reasons for the problem.
4. Identify the root cause: Merely providing a fix to the problem can be very dangerous because this may lead to permanent damage. Therefore, you should determine the root cause or the main reason behind the problem.
5. List the possible solutions: List the ways by which you can correct the problem. Create a detailed list. Even if you think the solution is impractical, write it down. Do not eliminate any possible solution at this stage. Some generic solutions to some problems include:
Do breathing exercises to calm the mind and control your anger.
Do not expect people to behave the way you want them to.
6. Overcome the problem: Choose one of the corrective actions that you can take to solve the problem. You should understand that people behave according to their nature. Therefore, you should accept others as they are and do not expect them to behave according to your whims.
7. Prepare a backup plan: Prepare a backup plan that can be used if the master plan fails to be effective.
8. Evaluate and follow up: Use the check sheet to check the status after you start implementing a solution to a problem. Verify if the number of instances of becoming angry reduces or not. If the number has reduced, you can congratulate yourself. Also, you should continue to tread the same path and before long you will be able to get rid of your anger once and for all.
After identifying your strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats that you face from the outside world, you will be wondering as to how you will tackle all these problems. Since you have identified your problem areas, it is very easy to weed out the problems. There are certain mechanisms that come handy to solve your problems. The mechanisms have more to do with your behaviour or habit, and are useful tools of self- development.
One such tool is the Personal Quality Initiative (PQI). You always want to inculcate some new habits or improve upon some of the tasks that you perform regularly. In PQI, you will identify various parameters to improve your habits.
A parameter is defined as the framing of few good practices that you would like to acquire and some ineffective practices that you would like to cast off in your personal and professional life. You can use the PQI tool to identify meaningful parameters and to give you a simple mechanism, where problems/improvement areas are the input and well-defined parameters are the outputs. There are many techniques and approaches that can be utilized to improve personal quality.
Adhere to the following steps that should be followed as an approach to self- improvement:
1. Identify the shortcomings: Identify the defects or shortcomings that you want to improve in yourself. List the improvement areas in the following spheres of your life:
Self: You may want to improve your behaviour and habits. For instance, you tend to get angry over extremely trivial matters. Consequently, you react in the heat of the moment and regret the reaction later.
Family: You may not have harmonious relations with your spouse, siblings, cousins, or relatives, and you wish to improve the same.
Health: You may have a disease or an ailment that you want to eradicate.
Social: You may not have cordial relations with your friends or neighbours, and you wish to improve the same.
2. Set up measurement: Select any one of the preceding areas on which you wish to work. Then, use a check sheet to quantify the problem and define it as clearly as possible. Suppose you select the problem - “I tend to get angry over trivial matters”. Now, quantify it in terms of the number of days in a week or month that you got angry.
3. Identify the possible causes: List the probable causes of the problem. You can use the fishbone diagram that will enable you to classify the causes or likely reasons for the problem.
4. Identify the root cause: Merely providing a fix to the problem can be very dangerous because this may lead to permanent damage. Therefore, you should determine the root cause or the main reason behind the problem.
5. List the possible solutions: List the ways by which you can correct the problem. Create a detailed list. Even if you think the solution is impractical, write it down. Do not eliminate any possible solution at this stage. Some generic solutions to some problems include:
Do breathing exercises to calm the mind and control your anger.
Do not expect people to behave the way you want them to.
6. Overcome the problem: Choose one of the corrective actions that you can take to solve the problem. You should understand that people behave according to their nature. Therefore, you should accept others as they are and do not expect them to behave according to your whims.
7. Prepare a backup plan: Prepare a backup plan that can be used if the master plan fails to be effective.
8. Evaluate and follow up: Use the check sheet to check the status after you start implementing a solution to a problem. Verify if the number of instances of becoming angry reduces or not. If the number has reduced, you can congratulate yourself. Also, you should continue to tread the same path and before long you will be able to get rid of your anger once and for all.
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