Self Awareness

Ochuko Aggreh

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Introduction

Participants
Facilitator
Organisation
Course and course objectives

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Introduction
WHAT AM I DOING HERE?

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The F Test

Please count the number of Fs in this

sentence

Fair fathers help in the fulfilment

of emotions of the child in the first
few years of life

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ICP
JARD

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What does it mean to know oneself?
Why we need to know ourselves?
Where does it come from?
What is the utility of self-awareness?

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 Beginning with your awareness
Self-awareness is the experience of one's own personality or
individuality. It is not to be confused with consciousness. While
consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and
lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness.

Self-awareness is how an individual consciously knows and

understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires.

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Understanding Self Awareness

Self-awareness test is having an unambiguous insight of your personality,

together with strengths, weaknesses, opinions, beliefs, inspiration, and
sentiments.

It is a comprehensive self-assessment of your potential, skills, and

competencies. It is the ability to know what you are doing to understand
your moods and emotions; and how they impact your life.

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 Benefits of Self Awareness

It gives the power to influence outcomes

It helps us make better decision-makers.
It gives us more self-confidence.
It allows us to understand things from multiple perspectives
It frees from our assumptions and biases
It helps build better relationships
It gives us a greater ability to regulate emotions.
It decreases stress
It makes us happier

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Understanding Self Awareness

The ability to focus on yourself and how your

actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align
with your internal standards. If you're highly
self-aware, you can objectively evaluate
yourself, manage your emotions, align your
behaviour with your values, and understand
correctly how others perceive you."

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States of Self Awareness

Public self-awareness: Being aware of how we can appear to others.

Because of this consciousness, we are more likely to adhere to social
norms and behave in ways that are socially acceptable.

Private self-awareness: Being able to notice and reflect on one’s internal

state. Those who have private self awareness are introspective,
approaching their feelings and reactions with curiosity.

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Self awareness

Attitudes – Opinion
Feelings – Emotions
Motives – Purpose
Desires – Needs
Strengths - Weaknesses

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Categories of Self Awareness

Internal

Self
Awareness

External

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Key areas of self awareness

Personality
Psychological Traits
needs

Personal
Emotions
Values

Habits
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Key areas of self awareness

An understanding of our personalities can help us find

Personality situations in which we will thrive, and help us avoid

situations in which we will experience too much

Trait stress. For instance, if you are a highly introverted

person, you are likely to experience more stress in a
sales position than a highly extroverted person would.

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Key areas of self awareness

It's important that we each know and focus on

Personal
our personal values. During the workday, so many
problems and opportunities arise that our lists of "things
to do" can easily exceed the time we have to do

Values them. Since few (if any) of those things pertain to what
we value most, it's easy to spend too much time on
lower priority activities. When we focus on our values,
we are more likely to accomplish what we consider most
important.

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Key areas of self awareness

Our habits are the behaviors that we repeat routinely

and often automatically. Although we would like to

Habits possess the habits that help us interact effectively

with and manage others, we can probably all identify
at least one of our habits that decreases our
effectiveness.

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Key areas of self awareness

Emotions
Understanding your own feelings, what causes them,
and how they impact your thoughts and actions is
emotional self-awareness.

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Key areas of self awareness

Maslow and other scholars have identified a variety

of psychological needs that drive our behaviors
such as needs for esteem, affection, belongingness,
Psychological achievement, self-actualization, power and
control. One of the advantages of knowing which
needs needs exert the strongest influence on our own
behaviors is the ability to understand how they
affect our interpersonal relationships.

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Self-Concept
Self-concept is an individual's perception
of self and is what helps make each
individual unique. • Positive and negative
self-assessments in the physical,
emotional, intellectual, and functional
dimensions change over time.

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Introduction to temperaments

Temperaments are consistent individual differences in

behavior that a biologically based and are relatively
independent of learning.

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Temperaments

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Temperaments and the workplace

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How to create self awareness

Reflecting on
Seeking feedback one’s own Taking self scoring
from others feelings and tests
behaviours

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Self analysis
It involves asking ourselves the following questions:

Do you like what you are and what you have become?
Have you ever wished that your life was different?
Can your relationship improve?
Are you producing the results that you want?

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Self analysis
Think for a moment and identify

The areas you normally excel

The areas you normally face difficulties
Kind of people, events and things you like the most and
those you dislike
The people, events that bring you happiness/sadness
The nature and extent of openness you have with others

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3 elements of self awareness

‘Ideal-
Self’

‘Me-
Self’

‘I-
Self’
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 This aspect answers the question, ‘How
do I see myself?’ Reflecting on the
concept of ‘I-Self’ helps the individual
to understand oneself from life’s learning
experiences including past experiences,
accomplishments, mistakes, attitudes,
behaviors or values. These experiences

‘I-
mold one to become who they truly are.

Self’

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 This answers the question of ‘How do others
see me?’ This aspect of the self is developed
from influences and interactions with society.
Parents, friends, teachers, mentors and any
environmental factors can contribute to the
shaping of the ‘Me-Self’. The ‘I-Self’ is
constantly developing as the ‘Me-Self evolves.

‘Me-Self’

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 This answers the question of
‘How do I want others to see
me?’ This is a projection of
oneself onto others and the
fulfilment of various roles in
one’s life journey.
‘Ideal-Self’

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 Self Esteem
It is the feeling I have about my
self concept.

A subjective appraisal of yourself

as intrinsically positive or
negative to some degree.

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• It’s simply having a high regard for ones self.
• It is a feeling of being happy with your own
character and abilities.

•It is putting a high price on ones abilities.

• It is a confidence and satisfaction which one has

in oneself.

• It is self acceptance.

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 Self Esteem
Self esteem is based on your attitudes:

 Your value as a person

 The job you do
 Your achievements
 How you think others see you
 Your purpose in life
 Your place in the world
 Your potential for success
 Your strengths and weaknesses
 Your social status and how you relate to
others
 Your independence or ability to stand on
your own feet
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 The need for Self Esteem
What are your thoughts
towards to your colleagues?
What are your thoughts
towards your superiors?
What are your thoughts
towards your contemporaries?
If you harbour negative
thoughts, why is that?
How can it be stopped or
controlled?

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 Steps to self esteem

Self belief
Self
acceptance
Self respect
Self worth
Self
appreciation
Self
Identification

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 What is a Johari Window?
Effective technique which when used
appropriately provides valuable information
regarding one’s own self and others, which
is an important characteristic which every
leader needs to possess to succeed.

A model for self-awareness, personal

development, group development and
understanding relationship.

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 Understanding a Johari Window?
A simple and useful tool for understanding and
training self-awareness, group dynamics, personal
development, interpersonal relationships, improving
communications between people, team development and
intergroup relationships.

It lays emphasis on and influences 'soft' skills,

behaviour, cooperation, inter-group development,
empathy and interpersonal development.

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JoHari Window

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How to widen the OPEN corne

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