Leadership Essential: Self-Awareness
Successful leadership is grounded in self-awareness. If you are self-aware it means you have made (and are constantly updating) an accurate appraisal of your personality, of what motivates you, and what your strengths and weaknesses are.
Being self-aware affects how you behave and interact with others and puts you in a better position to evaluate and adapt your leadership style when necessary.
‘Leadership Essentials: Self-Awareness’ provides an overview of why self-awareness is essential for leadership capability and includes ‘Top Tips’ on how you can use self-awareness to become a better leader.
The Essentials leaflet is supported by three Spotlights that look at aspects of self-awareness in more detail to help you improve your leadership skills:
-
Personality Types
-
Leadership Styles
-
Emotional Intelligence
Spotlights
Spotlight on Personality Types
"People often assume that personality and behaviour are one and the same, which leads to the erroneous assumption that because the fundamentals of your personality are relatively fixed, so also is your behaviour."
Peter Honey (1997)
Spotlight on Leadership Styles
"The leadership style you choose to use (and yes, to a great extent, it is an active choice you can make) has a direct impact on the result you achieve. It is what makes you memorable to others and fulfilled within yourself."
Rebecca Hourston (2013)
Spotlight on Emotional Intelligence
"Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth."
John Mayer et al. (2004)
Going Further
Leadership Essentials: Self-Awareness is FREE
To unlock all other Leadership Essentials, plus exclusive benefits including professional recognition, you need to become a member.