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New Journal Released for 2025!

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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Core Concepts: Cultivating a Feedback-Friendly Environment

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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The Neuroscience of Change

The Neuroscience of Change

Yesterday I watched a really interesting interview fromThe Happiness Index about the #neuroscience of change. Over the years I’ve both led change and been involved in change, some of which have had fundamental impacts on the course of people’s lives and careers, mine...

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What is Self-Awareness?

What is Self-Awareness?

Take a look at the first in my Knowledge Share video series on YouTube In this video I talk about self-awareness and my three layer definition Click to watch!

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Uni News!

DBA: Nia Thomas Nia Thomas, a Law graduate who works in strategy at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, has graduated from USW with a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) research degree. For her doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Gareth...

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In conversation…

In conversation…

Join me in conversation with the brilliant Michael Baker, Sally Evans and Kate Williams talking about all those things I love to talk about, leader effectiveness and self awareness!

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What’s in a name? Soft Skills – Part 2

What’s in a name? Soft Skills – Part 2

Soft skills is a real contradiction in terms! Soft skills are the most difficult to acquire and by calling them ‘soft skills’, we don’t convey just how difficult they are to develop. Two weeks ago I put out a poll seeking ideas for a better term than soft skills and...

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What’s in a name? Part 1 – Soft Skills

What’s in a name? Part 1 – Soft Skills

A few times over the last week I’ve read posts talking about how unhelpful the term ‘soft skills’ is. It really doesn’t conjure the complexities of relations based interactions, does it? You’ll already know my view by now, that soft skills are the hardest to acquire....

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The A to Z of Self Aware Leadership

A is for Authenticity To be an effective leader we need to behave in an authentic way and to be authentic, we need to know what we think and feel about our values and strengths B is for Behaviour When we are self-aware, we are aware of our behaviour, how others view...

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