It wasn’t quite an epiphany, but it was pretty close! If you’ve every listened to Simon Sinek, he talks about finding your why; your purpose. I’ve never been able to pin it down. I could give you lists of the things I enjoyed doing, but nothing really answered my why....
Does it feel like we’re at another crossroads to you? The end of a terrible year is almost upon us and the second wave of lockdowns are over. Everyone is looking forward to what January will bring. In looking forward it’s clear that they’re not ‘looking forward’ at...
Yesterday I blogged about EI for execs. I mentioned the need for empathy to help inform outcomes. The London School of Economics says that one of the three principles for using design thinking for business, is empathy (along with expansive thinking and...
A few years ago, I set up a daily newspaper called The Self Awareness Daily, via Paper.li, auto-populated from Twitter. It draws from accounts that post about emotional intelligence, self-awareness and leadership news. Today, it shared an article from inc.com...
One of my suggestions for increasing self awareness in my blog post Know Thyself Part 2, was to write three words about how you think you were perceived in a meeting and to ask 2 other people to give you feedback about the same. This facilitates feedback in terms of...
This week I joined another Action fir Happiness webinar, this time with Tal Ben-Shahar. It was the first time I’d heard him speak but because I’d seen his name linked to so many international happiness events, I really wanted to hear what he had to say. It was a vey...
This week I was introduced to a website called Future Me. It allows you to email yourself (or anyone else, I guess) in the future. This tool could be incredibly useful to you in tracking your self awareness. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it,...
One important part of developing self awareness is comparing the views you have about yourself with the views that others have about you Self awareness is socially constructed, which means it’s generated by being in relationships with others. You can’t really be aware...
Today I’ve had some great conversations about challenges and ideas and thoughts and opinions which made my brain buzz and feel energised. It’s good for your professional development to expand the boundaries of your thinking and to challenge your values, beliefs and...
I’ve been thinking about the benefits of problem solving together. You’ll remember that in a recent blog post I talked about leaders not having all of the answers all of the time, well no one else does either! If you have a problem or a challenge or a question that...
When we are experienced at something we think we have all the answers or at least, that we should have all the answers. We plough on with what we think is right until a confident someone says, “erm, do you think that maybe that’s 6 instead of 5?” and we realise we’ve...
I'm interested in self-awareness, leader effectiveness and leadership at all levels. My research aim is to: ‘Criitically explore self-awareness and its relevance to leader effectiveness across all levels of the Welsh public service’ To help move my study from theory...