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See Yourself With Clarity

How self-aware are you? How well do you know yourself? Do you know how others perceive you? 

There are two kinds of self-awareness: internal – how we perceive ourselves – and external – how others perceive us. To be truly self-aware, we need to gain both an internal and external perspective. 

To successfully take others’ perspectives in highly charged situations, we should start by “zooming in” on our perspective first to better understand it. 

Next, we should “zoom out” and consider the perspective of the other person.

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Mining Solutions

Instead of focussing on the problem all the time, we need to mine solutions, dedicating a good amount of our efforts to exploring different ways of solving a problem. 

To increase your ability to mine problems for solutions, try the Miracle Question:

Suppose that one night, while ...

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Daily Check

A simple but powerful tool is to spend five minutes at the end of every day reflecting on the following questions:

  • What went well today?
  • What didn’t go well?
  • What did I learn and how will I be smarter tomorrow?

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Don't Ask Why, Ask What

When coaching others, I’ll often focus a conversation on why the other person wants to change. This isn’t a bad thing per se, but there’s a risk that we don’t get to the ‘actionable’ part of our insights or emotions. We need to ask ourselves about the “what”. 

Why questions...

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Awareness At Team Level: Collective Insight

If being individually self-aware means who you are and how others see you, a self-aware team commits to that same understanding at a collective level.

There are five cornerstones of collective insight that teams can access and address:

  • Objectives – What are we trying to achieve?...

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Reframing

Reframing means that we look at our circumstances, our behaviours, and our relationships from a different angle. I know from experience how easy it can be to be drawn into a single view of a circumstance, and therefore struggling to find a good way to change things. We need to instead look at the...

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What Leaders Need To Do

Leadership is not about trying to control every move of the employees. Leaders should help connect their employees with the bigger picture, give them the right tools and provide them with the space to make mistakes whilst still holding them accountable.

Leaders can ask some key questions to...

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Self-awareness has 2 components

Self-awareness has 2 components

  • Internal self-awareness: the ability to introspect and recognize your authentic self;
  • External self-awareness: the ability to recognize how you fit in with the rest of the world. 

The 2 are independent, meaning you can have one without the other. To be truly, fully self-a...

Developing insight about yourself

Developing insight about yourself

Two perspectives can help to develop self-knowledge.

  • The "inside" view. This kind of self-awareness you gain from life experiences, such as a breakup, or finally knowing what you want in life. This knowledge underpins much of our motivation but tends to be hard to w...

How to reduce your egocentric bias

  • Use self-distancing language: for e.g,  instead of thinking “what should I do”, think “what should you do”/“what should [your name] do”.
  • Try to see things from someone else’s viewpoint, or you can try to see things from a generalized external perspective.

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