Are you familiar with the phrase, "new year, new me?" Maybe you have captioned a post with this exact phrase on New Year's day. The reality is, personal change doesn't happen with a new calendar, it comes through hard-work. In the BurnBright Basics to Personal Betterment you will learn how to better understand yourself, how to present your best self, and how to manifest your your dreams and think like a leader. This series includes 4 programs:
1. "Know Thyself: An Introduction to Self-Awareness" by Andrew Hill
2. "Keeping Cool While Under Fire: Customer Service" by Monique Douglas
3. "Bridging Vision To Action" by Devin Thorpe
4. "Optimism as a Super Power" by Devin Thorpe
"Know thyself." Great advice, right? But what does it mean, and why is it important?
More power usually leads to lower self-awareness; leaders tend to become LESS self-aware as they move up in an organization. This is a problem. But why does it happen?
A crucial part of internal self-awareness is understanding our instinctive, emotional tendencies, and also the heuristics (decision-making shortcuts) and biases that influence our thoughts and actions. These things comprise our "automatic self" and can be difficult to change. But if we are aware ...
We have mental models of ourselves. This the the person we would describe if someone were to ask us, "What kind of person are you?" Yet often this model self differs significantly from our actual thoughts and actions. Awareness of our "deliberate self" is an awareness of our model self, our actua...
External self-awareness is an awareness of how others perceive our actions. What do our words and deeds mean to those around us? This is extremely important in leadership.
What activities will help us increase our self-awareness? In this lesson, we explore both independent and assisted activities that build self-awareness.
