1- Journey Into Self-Awareness
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Journey Into Self-
Awareness
Know Thyself.
~ Socrates
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Chapter Objectives
Determineyour strengthsand understand howthey can guide you in personal and professional
choices.
Figure out what motivates youin order to find
personal and professional success.
Assessyour limitationsand develop a plan for
improving those areas.
Gain understanding and insightinto yourpersonality, attitudes and behaviours.
Identify the biasesyou have that preclude your
understanding and appreciating others.
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What is Self-Awareness?
Knowing your: Motivations
Preferences
Personality
Understanding how these factors influence your: Judgment
Decisions
Interactions with other people
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Importance to Managers
Tend to be superior performers.
Have a greater understanding of others.
Can relate to or empathize with co-workers.
Tend to be more trusted.
Tend to be perceived as being competent.
Are able to reduce the potential for conflict.
Are more likely to be open to feedback.
Are able to create trusting and productive work
environments.
Managers who are self-aware:
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Lack of Self-awareness
Who lack of Self-awareness:
Can lead to poor decisions.
Can result in decisions that leadto
negative consequences.
Can result in situation that lead to
career derailment.
Can result in the opposite incompetence, because individual
does not realize the gap between his or her perception and
reality of strengths and competencies in question.
Are less able to see themselves accuratelyand are therefore
less able to midcourse correct.
Are less able to make improvements necessary for changes
and improvement.
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The greatest of faults, I
should say, is to be
conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle Scottish
Author, essayist, and
historian
(17981881)
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How to Gain Self-Awareness
Recogniseyourweaknesses,strengths, biases, attitudes, values
and perceptions
Enhance your self-awareness:
Analyse your own experiences Look at yourself through the eyes of
others
Self-disclose
Acquire diverse experiences
Increase your emotional intelligence
There are three
things extremely
hard: steel, a
diamond, and to
know ones self.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Self-Analysis
Examine yourselfas an object in an experience
or event.
Step backand observe the positive or negative
impact.
Not always easy. Begins with reflection onand exploration of
thoughts and feelings associated with affective
events.
Become more effectiveby implementing
behavioural and cognitive changes.
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Behaviour
Influenced by our: Feelings Judgments
Beliefs
Motivations
Needs
Experience And the opinions of others
Patterns develop through: Reactions to events
Actions over a period of time
Behaviouris the
way in which we
conduct ourselves
the way in which
we act.
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Behaviour (cont)
Motivation
Modes of thinkingModes of acting
Modes of interacting
Behaviours four components:
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Personality
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Emotional stability
Conscientiousness
Openness to experience
The Big Five Model Personalitydescribes the
relatively stable
set of
characteristics,
tendencies and
temperaments
that have been
formed by
inheritance and
by social, cultural
and
environmentalfactors.
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Attitudes
Determined by the emotionswechoose to act on.
Varyfrom situation to situation.
Derived from parents, teachers,
peers, society and our own
experiences.
Easier to influenceand change
than our behaviours or values.
Can have an impact on our
professional and personal
relationships.
Attitudesare
evaluative
statements or
learned
predispositions to
respond in a
consistently
favourable or
unfavourablemanner with
respect to a given
object.
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Attribution Theory
Attributions or judgments arebased on our personal
observationor evaluationof
the situation.
Future decisions and behaviours
are based more on our
perception of whysomething
happened rather than on the
actual outcome.
According to
attribution theory,
individuals tend to
decide that
behaviour is
caused by a
particular
characteristic or
event.
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Attribution Theory (cont)
Attribution to controllable factorstends to be astronger indicatorof future behaviour than to
uncontrollable factors.
Greatly affected by personal biases:
Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
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Others Perceptions
Social mirror Understanding how others view us, and also
understanding how we are shaped by others
opinionsof us.
Based on our memory of how others have reacted
toward us or treated us.
Learning to read accuratelyhow others
see us enhancesour self-map, ourimagesandjudgmentsof ourselves.
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Self-Disclosure
Sharing your thoughts, feelings and ideaswith others
Key factor in improving self-awareness
Clarifies your perceptionsVerifies your own beliefs
Affirms your self-concept
Validates data received from an objective
source
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Diverse Experience
Living or studying in a foreign countryLearning a new language
Travelling
Reading books on new subjectsAcquiring broad work experience
Facing a life-threatening illness
Experiencing divorceOvercoming a personal problem
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Summary
Self-awarenessis an essential skillfordeveloping personally and professionally.
A high degree of self-awarenessallows you to
capitalise on your strengthsand develop plans
for improvingor compensatingfor yourlimitations.
Part of being self-aware is being able to monitor
and changeyour behaviour.
Concentrating on self-improvementdemonstrates to others your willingness to learn
and grow, increasing the likelihood of you being
able to develop close relationships and succeed in
a profession.