Becoming a More Self-Aware Leader

Self-awareness is one of the most powerful predictors of happiness, life success and Leadership effectiveness! 

In this session, we review and discuss ways Leaders can improve their self-awareness.

Thousands of years of writing, discourse, contemplation and more recently, decades of peer-reviewed research have established the importance of knowing ourselves.

Self-awareness is considered to be the foundation of many of the most important attributes that leaders require including:

• Emotional intelligence
• a growth mindset
• change agility and
• the ability to collaborate, empathise and truly connect with the experience of others.

For Leaders, there can be no Leadership development without the requisite expansion of self-awareness. In this session, we look at what self-awareness is, the science behind it and how it contributes to Leadership effectiveness.

We consider how self-awareness works in practice and how to cultivate it including:

• what self-awareness is in practice
• how we can use our self-awareness to develop insight and understanding about how we see the world
• how we can understand our own levels of maturity, empowerment, responsibility and power
• how to witness our thoughts more objectively (without getting lost in them)
• how self-awareness can help us to balance fear, avoidance, re-activity and judgement
• immediate and longer-term strategies for improving your self-awareness.

For each of these we examine how they work within our thinking and behaviour, their contribution to the way we lead or interact with others and how we can cultivate each more deeply.

This is a practical session suited to financial and legal professionals who find themselves managing staff or collaborating with stakeholders. For experienced professionals, it will update existing skill sets with some of the latest thinking and research, and it provides an excellent introduction for those who are looking to understand how to work with self-awareness for the first time.

Learning Outcomes:

Attendees will:

• deepen their knowledge of self-awareness and its importance for our professional and personal wellbeing
• understand how our level of awareness influences thinking, feeling and behaviour
• be clearer about where they have strong awareness and where awareness and skills sets might need more development
• learn how to cultivate their self-awareness at micro and macro levels
• understand how levels of self-awareness might be influencing the behaviour of others, and constructive ways to respond to this

Suited to:

Leaders, Managers, Project Managers, Employees and anyone who wants to be more focused, and clearer in how they Lead a team, a project or a piece of work 

This On Demand includes: 

• a recording of the webinar Event which can be viewed multiple times
• a PDF of the presenter’s PowerPoint
• a verbatim Transcript
• any supporting documentation
• a CPD Certificate after successful completion of the Knowledge Quiz