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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.

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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 forpersonal growth.

•However, we avoid seeking information about

ourselves because it may make us feel inferior.•Scientists observe the close connection between

one’s self -concept and one’s 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 bean 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 personalpreferences 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 valueswe have developed throughout our lives.

• At least some of our values are affectedsignificantly by the country and culture inwhich we are raised.

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Cultural values

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Personal value

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Values that

Managers Desire

• Sense of Accomplishment

• Self-Respect

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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 individual’s inclination to perceive,

interpret and respond to information in

a certain way

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Kolb’s Model of Learning Styles

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The Learning Cycle

• Developed from Kolb’s 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 strengthof your own learning style, you also shouldbe aware of your orientation towardschange.

As the environment in which managersoperate continues to become more chaotic,more temporary, more complex, and more

overloaded with information, your abilityto process information is at least partlyconstrained by your fundamental attitudeabout 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 (cont’d)

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

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However, people can make changes totheir 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 people’s 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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