Leadership & Self-Awareness

Topics Covered

• Self-awareness is the primary focus.
• Leadership styles and potential issues like "life parasites" are addressed.
• Concepts such as DISC, the Holland Code, values, and self-esteem are covered.
• Mindset (growth vs. fixed), emotional intelligence, and time management are included.
• Effective communication strategies are reviewed.
• Critical thinking, SWOT analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making are important.
• Team building, conflict resolution, presentation skills, and elevator pitches are covered.
• Personal branding and networking are touched on.

Experiential Learning Cycle

• Involves starting with tangible experience and moving to reflective observation.
• This process leads to both learning and abstract conceptualization of the experience.
• Sharing, applying, and consistently practicing learned concepts are encouraged.

Journey of Change

• The transformation process involves significant, fundamental change.
• This change can be in perspective, course, or behavior.
• Transformation begins with an initial concept.
• Transformation is a deliberate journey
• Transformation cannot be imposed externally.

Dimensions of Change

• Change occurs across three dimensions.
• Change of mindset.
• Change of direction.
• Shift in action.

Character vs. Personality

• Character reflects who you are when unobserved.
• Character embodies principles, virtues, values, attitudes, beliefs, and ethics.
• Personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that make up an individual.

Key Questions for Self-Reflection

• What legacy is desirable to leave behind?
• Would ones organization notice their absence?
• Are you a role model?
• What distinguishes you from your generation?
• How do you impact people?
• Are you holding onto something that needs to be let go of?
• Do you accept, and embrace your weaknesses?

Genetic, Environmental and Psychic Impacts

• Genetic impact is the DNA people inherited
• Environmental impacts are the financial circumstances or regulations one may be faced with
• Psychic impact relates to how someone was raised and childhood experiences

Seasons of Life Questions

• Ages 0-3: Am I loved?
• Ages 4-8: Am I the center of attention?
• Ages 9-12: Who am I? (Identity)
• Ages 13-18: What can I do well, and what defines me?
• Ages 19-22: Where am I going?
• Ages 23-30: Where can I fit in, and what do I like to do?
• Ages 31-40: What am I successful at?
• Ages 41-50: How can I multiply success?
• Ages 51-65: What legacy do I want to leave behind me?
• Ages 66-75: How can I be a source of wisdom, and to whom?

Responsibility Definition

• Responsibility = response-ability, or "the ability to choose your response"
• Attributed to Stephen R. Covey.

Key Differences Between Character and Personality

• Character is who you are when no one is looking, not a persona.
• Personality is the combination of qualities that form an individual's behavior.
• The primary factor influencing personality is "All of the above"
• The theory that suggests upbringing significantly shapes our personality is "Psychic impact"