Cultivating Self-Awareness

You can’t lead yourself if you don't possess self-awareness. And you can’t lead others if you don’t know yourself. So everything about leadership, at some level, comes back to this idea of self-awareness. But what exactly is that, and how do we arrive there? Generally, self-awareness means you have a sharp awareness of your own personality — including both strengths and weaknesses, areas for growth, motivations, goals, dreams, and factors that hinder you.

Here's your leadership behaviour, action and coaching question ...??

Leadership Behaviour

To what extent do I: Believe I'm self-aware

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Taking Action

What prevents effective self-awareness, you may be wondering.

In a professional context, it’s often how work is structured. To many, work is about tasks, KPIs, deliverables, putting out fires, and getting projects out the door. That’s a very rushed, busy culture — which many thrive in. But it doesn’t leave a lot of time for reflecting on self.

Self-awareness also makes us uncomfortable — it takes emotional courage to admit the rough spots of one’s existence.

To actively improve your self-awareness starts becoming more curious about yourself. You can start by asking these 3 questions:?

What's your story??

What's your passion??

What's your pain?

Define how you see yourself (story), where you want to see yourself (passion), and what hinders you or upsets you (pain).?

Yes, it will be scary and you may have to admit some things to yourself that you’re not comfortable admitting.?

But this all leads to stronger self-awareness.

Coaching Question:

How will improving my self-awareness impact my leadership?

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