Top Takeaways Tuesday: Navigating Self-Aware Leadership - A Global Journey of Insights & Inspiration '22-'24
BONUS TRACK: The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Knowing Self, Knowing Others Podcast! Join me in a special episode celebrating the podcast's second birthday. We reflect on insights and inspirations from all of my conversations in the first two years of the show, 2022-24, offering actionable strategies for self-aware leadership and looking ahead to the future. The full report will be available to subscribers on the 31st August.
Join the learning journey as we look back to move forward!
Take a listen here…
Self-awareness is Crucial for Effective Leadership: Insights from the podcast highlight the importance of self-awareness in leadership, employee well-being and organisational success. The key findings highlight that self-aware leaders are better communicators, make informed decisions and cultivate supportive environments.
Reflection question: How can you enhance your self-awareness to become a more effective leader?
Key Discussion Themes: Discussions with guests consistently highlight feedback, emotional intelligence, vulnerability, decision making and organisational culture as key themes.
Reflection question: How can you incorporate these themes into discussions with your team?
Self-aware Leadership Behaviours: The podcast emphasised that self-awareness underpins critical leadership behaviours, including empathy, adaptability, integrity, accountability and visionary thinking.
Reflection question: How can you integrate these self-aware leadership behaviours into your daily leadership practices to drive positive change?
Ways to Develop Self-Aware Leadership Skills: Podcast guests shared strategies for developing self-aware leadership skills, offering practical pathways for people to enhance their self-awareness and leadership capabilities.
Reflection question: How can you incorporate self-awareness into your leadership development plan to continuously grow and evolve as a leader?
Recommendations for Growth: The podcast offers recommendations for individuals and organisations to foster self-aware leadership skills and create supportive environments.
Question for Reflection: Which recommendations from the Reflections Report resonate most with you?
These takeaways and reflection questions are designed to help you think deeply about your practice and the impact you have on their team and organisation.
What can you do next?
Pick one of the top takeaways
Share it with you team
Ask for their thoughts and views.
Reflect, discuss and debate. Agree, disagree, make a plan!
Get to know your own thoughts better. Help others to know their thoughts better. Get to know each other better.
Share your thoughts here with us on what you’ve discovered and learned.
Hope you enjoy the episode and find that these top takeaways generate interesting and awareness raising discussions!
KSKO EVENTS
🎪 On the 12th September, I’ll be in conversation at the Chicken and Frog Bookshop, Brentwood. Join me in discussion about The Self-Awareness Superhighway! Book your tickets on eventbrite now!
👩🏽💻 On the 25th September I’ll be hosting a webinar to celebrate International Week of Happiness at Work: Drive Self-Aware Leadership: Fuel a Happy Workplace from 4pm - 5pm BST. Join me to discover, explore and grow! Book through eventbrite.
HAPPINESS AT WORK
🤩 Did you know that the next face to face Chief Happiness Officer training is happening in Prague, 10th-12th October? Book your spot to ensure you get a place.
🤩 On the 14th and 15th, it’s the Happiness at Work Live Conference. Get your tickets now!
It’s going to be an amazing week!!!! See you there?
Looking forward to having you on my learning journey!
Nia is an expert leader who talks the talk and walks the walk. She is an academically awarded thought leader in self-aware leadership and practices self-aware leadership every single day in her role as a Director in a Children’s Charity.
Find out more about Self-Aware Leadership by getting your very own copy of The Self-Awareness Superhighway now!