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• Self-awareness


  The ability to recognize and understand your own emotions, strengths, weaknesses, and drives
• 5 Pillars of Self-Awareness

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Core Self-Evaluation
  • Self-Esteem
  • Values
  • Learning Styles
  • Attitude Towards Change
• Emotional Intelligence (EI)


  The capacity of recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, for managing emotions in ourselves as well as in our relationships
• EI is critical to managing your behavior, moving smoothly through social situations and making critical choices in life
• People with high emotional intelligence are usually successful in most things they do because they're the ones that others want on their team
• Core Self-Evaluation


  • Locus of Control
  • Neuroticism
  • Self-efficacy
  • Self-esteem
• Self-Esteem


  Builds strong convictions, creates willingness to accept responsibility, builds optimistic attitude, leads to better relationships, makes a person self-motivated, improves performance and risk taking ability
• Change is inevitable, growth is optional
• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude
• SWOT Analysis


  A useful technique that helps to identify strengths and weaknesses, and analysing the opportunities and threats
• SWOT Analysis


  • It can help uncover opportunities that would not otherwise have been spotted
  • By understanding weaknesses, one can manage and eliminate threats that might otherwise hurt one's ability to move forward
• Strengths


  • Advantages you have that others don't have (e.g. skills, certifications, education, or connections)
  • What you do better than anyone else
  • Achievements you're most proud of
  • Being part of a network that no one else is involved in and the connections you have with influential people
• Weaknesses


  • Tasks you usually avoid because you don't feel confident doing them
  • Negative work habits (e.g. being often late, disorganized, having a short temper, or being poor at handling stress)
  • What your boss or coworkers say are your weaknesses
• Opportunities


  • New technology that can help you
  • If your industry is growing and how you can take advantage of the current market
  • If any of your competitors are failing to do something important and you can take advantage of their mistakes
  • If your customers or vendors complain about something in your company and you can offer a solution
• Threats


  • Obstacles you currently face at work
  • If any of your colleagues are competing with you for projects or roles
  • If your job (or the demand for the things you do) is changing
  • If changing technology threatens your position
  • If any of your weaknesses could lead to threats
• Johari Window


  A model for improving self-awareness, personal development, group development, understanding relationship and mutual understanding between individuals within a group
• Johari Window


  • It classifies behavior in a matrix from between what is known - unknown to self, and what is known - unknown to others
  • The 'hidden self' can be reduced and the 'open self' can be increased through the 'disclosure' process
  • The 'feedback process' can be used to decrease 'blind self' and simultaneously increase the 'open self'
• Soft skills are important because they add value to your performance, enable high performance team building and managing, and improve teamwork
• Lao Tzu: 'He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened!'