by Dr Nia Thomas | Dec 23, 2020 | My Why, Self-Awareness
Last night I joined a Find Your Why workshop with the team from Simon Sinek Ltd. It was an Open Mic, ‘pay what you can’ session with the aim of helping you pin down your ‘statement of purpose’ I posted about ‘finding my why’ a week or two ago. At that point I’d...
by Dr Nia Thomas | Dec 22, 2020 | Discovery Series, Research
One of my research questions was: do strategic level leaders have more self-awareness than leaders at any other level? The literature suggested yes. My research said no! In the questionnaire, people had to give responses for themselves and their manager. I grouped...
by Dr Nia Thomas | Dec 21, 2020 | Discovery Series, Research
The second part of my research involved doing eight interviews. Similar themes kept coming up and what people told me, backed up my questionnaire findings. Five particularly strong themes came through the interviews. They’re listed below, in order or importance:...
by Dr Nia Thomas | Dec 20, 2020 | Discovery Series, Research
My research questionnaire was in 4 parts – demographics, self-awareness, leader effectiveness and free text. The self awareness section. was made up of 24 statements. Welsh public service employees had to rate their agreement to each statement, from 1 –...
by Dr Nia Thomas | Dec 19, 2020 | Discovery Series, Research
My research focussed on self-awareness, leader effectiveness and leadership at all levels of the Welsh public service. I asked Welsh public service employees to complete a questionnaire and I carried out some interviews. My findings told me that there was a...
