Self-Awareness and Leadership

Self-Awareness – An important tool to accurately assess yourself. To understand your behavior and your skills by observing your own thoughts.

Leaders with good practice of self-awareness have a high level of self-confidence without any arrogance. They are willing to admit their mistakes. They are able to overcome their fear and to adapt and they have a self-deprecating sense of humor.

To discover your true self is being able to separate out what is real from your own personal self-image.

It’s accepting the possibility that many things that you believe about yourself may not be correct.

The self-awareness improves when self-disclosure takes place so that people around you can provide inputs; can provide feedback; can share how this impacts them.

People become defensive when the information they encounter is not consistent with their self-assumption, how they see themselves in the world.

As leaders, we must be sensitive to this.