Self-Awareness for Managers – 5 Actions to Improve Your Self Awareness

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Self-awareness for managers is an essential skill to lead and manage others better. Most people think they are self-aware, yet research has shown only 10-15% of people are truly self-aware.
Take 5 actions to improve your self-awareness and make it easier to manage teams.
Developing self-awareness as a manager is essential to success. If you can’t manage yourself, how can you manage others successfully?
Firstly, lets cover “What is self-awareness?” It is your ability to perceive and understand what makes you an individual.
Increasing self-awareness at work will give you a huge range of benefits. Research has show those with good self awareness build better relationships, communicate more effectively, are more confident and creative and make better decisions.
Growing self-awareness takes a little bit of work, yet the rewards personally and professionally are brilliant. Learn 5 steps to increase your self-awareness.
From my experience, increasing self-awareness to manage others better is an invaluable process and it makes you more comfortable with who you are and helps you manage more authentically, honestly, and effectively.
Increase your self-awareness and you will become better at managing how you display your emotions which is essential to build trust, confidence and credibility as a manager.
How to improve your self-awareness is an important question. The 5 actions for becoming more self-aware including:
1.How to get and use honest useful feedback
2.Ask What instead of Why
3.Understand and use your values
4.Be confident using strengths and managing weaknesses
5.Learn what drives strong emotions in you
Developing self-awareness as quickly and as easily as possible is super useful for all managers and all stages of their career. After 25 years of managing teams, I am still working on improving both the two types of self awareness.
If you have any questions on “Self Awareness for Managers – 5 Actions to Improve Your Self-Awareness”, please email me at [e-mail] and I will get back to you.
Jess
Enhance.training

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. What is self-awareness and the two types of self-awareness (00:01:35)

3. Why self-awareness is so important in leading and managing others (00:03:07)

4. 5 actions to improve your self-awareness (00:05:16)

5. Summary (00:11:35)