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Becoming More Self-Aware To Improve How We Communicate

Tanveer Naseer

If you look around, you will find that most presenters are not aware of how they are really perceived in these three main areas. Their presentations only serve as testament to the important need for self-awareness. Self-awareness is mandatory. It’s time for an awareness boost. Self-awareness is a good thing.

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Leading Thoughts for December 28, 2023

Leading Blog

But these are tactics that devalue both the question and the questioner. When we are immersed in a culture that encourages questions, it helps us become more self-aware, more conscious of choices we have made, more deliberate about our decisions. Source: Dare: Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership II.

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Leadership Tactics for Career Women

Coaching Tip

True leaders are less concerned about the rewards of being a leader and more aware of the responsibility that the role brings--the responsibility for serving as a role model to those around them. Source: Courtney Lynch: Leading From the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women. Related articles.

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Unleashing the Potential of Those You Lead

Leading Blog

I should note, however, that as a leader, self-improvement should be undertaken with a focus on the impact it has on those one is leading. The impact of your self-improvement on others is the yardstick of its value. That said, there is an undue focus on the self in all of us. They go hand in hand.

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Executive Coaching and Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

A coach serves as a valuable partner by offering a collaborative process in five key areas: brainstorming, awareness, action plans, accountability, and encouragement. The leader is more likely to show up as the best version of herself as the coach helps her gain awareness of barriers to effectiveness. Brainstorming. Action Plans.

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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

If our EQ capacity empowers us to effectively leverage our emotions to bring about better business outcomes, then – our ability to exercise self-regulation powers our EQ capacity. Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate.

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How Ambitious Managers Make The Jump To Leadership

Eric Jacobson

The book covers: The central paradox of leaders: selfless vs. self-centered. Tactics to making better decisions. How to build your self-awareness muscle. He adds that the book is useful to everyone who is interested in leadership, regardless of where they are in their career. How to perfect the do-to-say ratio.