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Self-Aware Leadership compass Dr Nia D Thomas TRUST

Core Concepts: The Self-Aware Leadership Compass #5 – TRUST

Welcome to today’s Knowing Self-Aware Leadership minimalistical! The first nine Knowing Self-Aware Leadership blog articles of 2025 are exclusive extracts from my book, The Self-Awareness Superhighway, focused on the nine directions of the self-aware leadership compass. Here’s the minimalistical all about trust. You can read the full article here. Looking forward to joining you on your learning journey!

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Care Value Knowing Self Knowing Others Dr Nia D Thomas

Core Concepts: The Self-Aware Leadership Compass #1 – CARE

The first nine Knowing Self-Aware Leadership blog articles of 2025 will be exclusive extracts from my book, The Self-Awareness Superhighway, about the nine directions of the self-aware leadership compass. There’s the first minimalistical from the first blog article all about care.

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Reflection, Recognition, Regulation - self-aware leadership Dr Nia D Thomas

Knowing Self Knowing Others: Unlocking the Power of Self-Aware Leadership

Many years ago, I worked with some unpleasant people. If you weren’t in their club you were out in the cold and boy, was that made clear. I often used to ask myself, in between my tears, ‘do these people have any idea of the impact they’re have on others??’. Sometimes impact would be exchanged for ‘damage’, ‘pain’ and ‘hurt’, but they were all variations on a similar theme.

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The Self-Awareness Superhighway Reflections Journal 2.0 Dr Nia D Thomas

New Journal Released for 2025!

What’s new in the Self-Awareness Superhighway: Reflections Journal 2.0? Check out the new format and the different spaces where you can: assess yourself against the self-aware leadership compass, write down your reflections, doodle thoughts and ideas about what you want to do differently next time. And it’s square!!

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Knowing Self Knowing Others Core Concepts with Dr Nia D Thomas

Core Concepts: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment

Check out the concepts from The Self-Awareness Superhighway on feedback….. Feedback is essential, but not easy, neither to give nor to receive. As a leader, creating a feedback-friendly environment is a critical skills for building relationships with individual, developing relationships between team members and in achieving organisational effectiveness.

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Knowing Self Knowing Others Core Concepts with Dr Nia D Thomas

Core Concepts: Mastering Unlearning & Relearning

I was recently joined by Juan Gonzalez to discover more about learning, unlearning and experiential learning. Being that experiential learning is the 9th direction of my self-aware leadership compass, this was a really good opportunity to discover more. Here are the core concepts from my blog article.

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From Outdated to Outstanding: 3 Ways to Master Unlearning & Relearning Knowing Self Knowing Others Dr Nia D Thomas

From Outdated to Outstanding: 3 Ways to Master Unlearning & Relearning

I’m really lucky that from time to time, I get to collaborate with amazing thinkers from around the globe! This time, I’m joined by Juan Gonzalez. I caught up with Juan to discover more about learning, unlearning, experiential learning, self-awareness and the future of the world of work. The ninth direction of my Self-Aware Leadership Compass is experience (i.e. experiential learning) so it seemed like an excellent learning opportunity to catch up with Juan! Check out our interview

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