This presentation aims to help leaders understand their potential, fulfilment and make a roadmap towards maximizing their potential.

1. Motivational
Mondays
Maximize Your Potential
Namrata Bagaria, Leadership Coach
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2. Questions
• What is potential?
• What is fulfilment?
• How are fulfilment and potential related?
• What is “Maximizing your potential?”
• Exercises and Discussion

3. Potential
Latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and
lead to future success or usefulness.
Qualities that exist and can be developed
The possibility of something happening or being
developed or used
Oxford Dictionary

4. Ability
Possession of the means or skill to do
something.
Talent, skill, or proficiency in a particular
area.
Oxford Dictionary

5. Human potential
Human potential is the capacity for humans
to improve themselves through studying, training,
and practice, to reach the limit of their ability to
develop aptitudes and skills.
Wikipedia

6. Human Potential Model
A psychological approach in education that emphasizes
the importance of helping learners to achieve the
maximum development of their potential in all aspects of
their functioning. It is derived from the basic tenets
of humanistic psychology.
https://dictionary.apa.org/human-potential-model

7. Human Potential and Fulfilment
Inherent within the notion of human potential is the
belief that in reaching their full potential an
individual will be able to lead a happy and more
fulfilled life.
David Vernon, Human Potential: Exploring Techniques Used to Enhance Human
Performance (2009), p. 1.

8. Fulfilment
The achievement of something desired,
promised, or predicted.
The meeting of a requirement or
condition.
Oxford Dictionary

9. Influencers of human potential and fulfilment
Personal
(Internal)
Societal
(External)
Jana Gašparíková, "Human Potential and Social Equilibrium", in Józef Tischner, Józef Życiński, and George
F. McLean, eds., The Philosophy of Person: Solidarity and Cultural Creativity (1994), p. 195.

10. Exercises and discussion
• What is your fulfilment?
• What is your potential?
• What are your internal/ external influencers?
• How can you “Maximize your potential”?
• Making your road map

11. Measuring our existential
fulfilment levels
Loonstra, B. & Brouwers, A. & Tomic, Welko. (2008). Conceptualization, Construction and Validation
of the Existential Fulfilment Scale. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-regular Papers -
IEEE TRANS CIRCUIT SYST-I.

12. Measuring Self Acceptance
I find it very hard to accept myself
I often do things because I have to,
not because I really want to do them.
I often feel uncertain about the
impression I make on other people
I do a lot of things that I would
actually rather not do
I often feel I have to prove myself
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13. Measuring Self Actualization
Deep inside I feel free
I completely approve of the things
that I do
I’ll remain motivated to carry on
even in times of bad luck
Even in busy times I experience
feelings of inner calmness
My ideals inspire me
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14. Measuring Self Transcendence
I think I am part of a meaningful entity
I feel incorporated in a larger meaningful
entity
I think my life has such a deep meaning
that it surpasses my personal interests
I have experienced that there is more in
life than I can perceive with my senses
It is my opinion that my life is meaningful
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15. Results
Based on the scale pick a subdomain
of fulfilment (self acceptance, self
actualization, self transcendence)
you want to work on
If possible narrow down on one of
the 15 items we measured.
If you have another subdomain or
item you want to work on, that is fine
too

16. Now let’s find out
your potential
• What are your hidden abilities (or ability) that you think you
want to develop in order to find fulfilment in the item or
subdomain?
• Make a list
• Once you have made a list try connecting the abilities to one
another to see which one you may need to develop first
• Otherwise, see which ability you feel drawn to develop first

17. What are your
internal and
external
influencers?
Make a list of
your influencers
Personal
Family
Societal
Cultural

18. Now let’s connect the dots
• Aspect of self-fulfillment I want to work on is……
• Ability which will help me towards self-fulfillment is…..
• Personal influencers which will affect my ability are….
• External influencers which will affect my ability are….

19. Maximizing my potential
• Define what this means for you
Template:
If I can do …… ability for …. duration and get …. outcomes
over …… time period, then I will consider I have reached my
maximum potential zone. I understand ability is like a muscle
and the more I develop it, the more it will have scope to
develop.

20. Road map to maximizing potential
• Developing Tiny Habits (Recommend BJ Fogg, Tiny Habits)
• Incorporating immediate rewards
• As your ability increases, your internal motivation will
increase

21. Questions
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