How to Become More Self Aware

Self$-$awareness involves understanding who you are and what you stand for. In order to be self$-$aware you need to spend time pondering your personal vision, values, needs, tendencies, skills, and deficiencies. This activity is important because self$-$awarenes will enhance your ability to lead and to surround yourself with people who complement your own leadership deficiencies.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of the actions you can take to become more self$-$aware.

Listed below are scenarios of people engaging in actions to become more self$-$aware. Select the action to become more self$-$aware that each description best exemplifies. If an action describes someone failing to become more self$-$aware, select "Failing to becom more self$-$aware."

Each time Rodney has the urge to buy something he wants $($but doesn't need$),$ he makes a note of the item in a list on his iPhone. Periodically, he reviews his list and gets a good perspective on the things he'd really like to spend his money on versus those that would have been imnulcive and rarrettable purchases.

Dara gives out bonuses to employees at the end of each quarter. He believes these reinforcements will motivate performance in future quarters bv aivina the emnlovees who did not get bonuses something to aspire to$.$

Mio would like to have a more positive attitude at work. Mio enlists the help of a close colleague and asks him to keep track whenever she makes negative comments about work. After a few weeks, she'll look at her notes and start to identify some specific wavs she can improve.

Kiara had an unpleasant exchange with her supervisor today when the two of them strongly disagreed about a decision Kiara had made at work. After she got home for the evening. Kiara thought about the incident and tried to consider objectively whether she ha indeed made a mistake and what she should have done instead.