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...

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?

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...

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?...

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...