1- Journey Into Self-Awareness

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Journey Into Self-

Awareness

Know Thyself.

~ Socrates

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12Copyright 2006 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd

PPTs t/a Interpersonal Skills in Organisations

Slides by Caroline Juszczak

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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Slid b C li J k

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.

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