Self -Awareness

Self-awareness lies at the heart of the ability

to master oneself.
Self-Management skills are closely linked to
and build on self-awareness.
Developing self-control and clarifying
priorities and goals help individuals create
direction in their own lives.

Learning Objectives
Understand your sensitivity line
Clarify personal values and moral
maturity level
Apply your personal learning style
Discover your orientation toward
change
Identify your interpersonal style

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Hierarchy of Personal Life-Management

Skills

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Self-Awareness
Seeking self knowledge is a prerequisite for
personal growth.
However, we avoid seeking information about
ourselves because it may make us feel inferior.
Scientists observe the close connection between
ones self-concept and ones feelings about others.
Self-awareness and self-acceptance are
prerequisites for psychological health, personal
growth, and the ability to know and accept others.
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Five Areas of Self Awareness

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Emotional Intelligence
Difficult to measure and define, considered to be
an important measure of managerial success
The ability to diagnose and recognize your own
emotions.
The ability to control your own emotions.
The ability to recognize and diagnose the
emotions of others.
The ability to respond appropriately to emotional
clues.
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Values
Foundation for attitudes and personal
preferences are formed.
Basis for important crucial decisions, life
decisions and personal tastes.
Help to define morality and ethics
What we are is a product of the basic values
we have developed throughout our lives.
At least some of our values are affected
significantly by the country and culture in
which we are raised.
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Cultural values

Personal value

2007 by Prentice Hall

Values that
Managers Desire

Sense of Accomplishment
Self-Respect
A Comfortable Life
Independence

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Ethical Decision Making And

Values maturity
Most managers feel they are under
pressure to compromise standards to
meet company goals*
Conflict between maximizing
economic and social performance
* Study by American Management Association.

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Standards for Making Ethical

Decision

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Learning Styles
An individuals inclination to perceive,
interpret and respond to information in
a certain way

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Kolbs Model of Learning Styles

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The Learning Cycle

Developed from Kolbs four
dimensions
When the four-step process is
followed, learning is improved

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The Learning Cycle Model

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Attitudes Toward Change

In order to capitalize fully on the strength
of your own learning style, you also should
be aware of your orientation towards
change.
As the environment in which managers
operate continues to become more chaotic
,more temporary, more complex, and more
overloaded with information, your ability
to process information is at least partly
constrained by your fundamental attitude
about change.
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Change Orientation
Tolerance of Ambiguity: The extent to
which individuals have difficulty coping
with unclear situations.

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Change Orientation (contd)

Locus of Control: The attitude people
develop regarding the extent to which
they control their own destines.

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Core Self-Evaluation
Personality: The relatively enduring
traits that makes an individual unique.

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Determinants of Personality
Some of our personality may be
attributed to biology and genetics
However, people can make changes to
their personality if they are
determined

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Personality Traits
The Big Five Dimensions of
Personality
1. Extraversion
2. Agreeableness
3. Conscientiousness
4. Neuroticism
5. Openness
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Core Self-Evaluations
Core evaluations subconsciously
influence peoples appraisal of
themselves, the world, and others.

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Core Self-Evaluation
Four Components
1. Self-Esteem
2. Generalized Self-Efficacy
3. Neuroticism
4. Locus of Control

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The Effects of
Core Self-Evaluations

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