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Leadership and Self-Awareness

N2Growth Blog

I’ve never understood leaders who make heavy investments in personal and professional development early in their careers, who then go on to make only minimal investments in learning once they have reached the C-suite. The fastest way to become more self-aware is to challenge your own logic.

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Think This, Not That

Leading Blog

Mindshift 3: Become Self-Aware to Get Where You Need to Go Self-awareness is knowing how you are percieved and knowing what is happening inside of youan awareness of how you tend to respond to what is happening to you. It frees you from the grip of self-interest. Its knowing your strengths and weaknesses.

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Building Resiliency: How to Become Your Own Coach

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode, you’ll gain: Practical self-coaching questions to cultivate resilience and self-awareness every day. Simon explains that building resiliency isn’t about giving directions but inspiring others by asking questions that lead to self-discovery. [00:09:00] ”, “What is right about you?

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8 Principles to Get You to Great

Leading Blog

Im talking about the kind of self-awareness that allows you to acknowledge both your strengths and your weaknesses so that you can use them to balance each other and keep yourself going overboard in either direction. Self-awareness allows you to do more of what youre good at and less of what youre not. Winners act.

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Opening the (Johari) Window to Your Self-Awareness

QAspire

Self-awareness isn’t just nice-to-have for modern day leaders and professionals. How would we amplify our strengths or manage our weaknesses if we aren’ty even aware of them? Blindspots: Things others know about you that you are not aware of. Unknown: Things abut you that neither you are aware about nor others are.

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5 Steps to Managing Emotions at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

QAspire

This combined with longer careers, rise in independent workers (gig workers) and disruptive changes only means that professionals have to take charge of their own careers and constantly map the changing self with a changing world to stay relevant. External self-awareness (outsight) is about knowing how other people see us.