All You Need To Know About the Self-Awareness Course

Developing self-awareness is the first step towards effective leadership, as it is a key component of emotional intelligence. Self-aware leaders can regulate their emotions and easily understand, as well as positively influence, the emotional behavior of the other employees. Hence, to examine your own strengths and to use them in the leadership role, you can enroll yourself in a self-awareness course. During the course, you learn various techniques that can help you engineer a successful career path. Moreover, through the course you can discover and eliminate the issues or limitations in your behavior that negatively affect your leadership abilities. By doing so, you can become more effective as a professional and as a leader.

How the course works?

To begin with, a well-structured course usually has various online sessions/face-to-face confidential sessions between the coach and the client. In these sessions, the trained expert uses various psychometric assessments or a quiz to assess the inter-personal behaviors, interests, values and aspiration of the individual. In addition, with the years of experience, the coach develops customized plans of action to transform the habits and to bring a gradual change in your overall personality. Most importantly, they constantly move with you to customize the steps and to transform the collected insights into perfectly designed development plans.

Why do you need this course?

Anyone who wants to develop the skill of self-awareness can seek the benefits of a professionally designed self-awareness course. Regardless of the stage of your career, you can enroll in this course and prepare yourself for the next phase of your professional growth. Listed below are some more reasons why you need this course.

• To understand your strengths, flaws and behavioral patterns to become efficient in your leadership role.
• To discover why you feel stuck and dissatisfied with what you are currently doing.
• To establish better social relationships as a manager, especially with your subordinates.
• To explore the methods and ways that help you empathize with the feelings of others at a workplace.
• To grab incredible growth opportunities by realizing the value you can bring into the company. This can increase your chances of getting selected in any reputed organization.
• To grab incredible growth opportunities by realizing the value you can bring into the company. This can increase your chances of getting selected in any reputed organization.

By being self-aware, you can ensure your success in your field or any other industry you intend to switch to. Self-awareness is a component that is required everywhere and can assist you in strengthening your professional as well as personal relations.

Advantages of this course

Self-awareness enables an individual to continuously grow while learning from the past mistakes. For employees it is even more important, as at work you are required to interact with people who have completely opposite behavioral patterns and it requires immense amount of effort to remain mindful of your own behavior and reflect positivity. If you are still doubtful, continue to read to know some other advantages of self-awareness training.

1. Enhances emotional control – When people are aware of their own personality, they are able control their emotions which further allows them to rationally and objectively judge the responses of other people. In addition, they also take up the responsibility to adjust their behavior and remain open for criticism to promote a stress-free environment.
2. Focused leadership – The employees expect the leaders to direct and guide them. Hence, it is important for the leaders to have high level of self-awareness in order to motivate and mentor the staff. Also, with this focused relationship, the employees undoubtedly follow the steps of the leader in order to provide utmost satisfaction to the consumers.
3. Identify the gaps – Self-awareness allows you to identify the gaps between your skills or knowledge and the areas that require improvement. By acquiring leadership skills and building a culture of learning, every person feels respected at a workplace, irrespective of their differences. Moreover, by becoming aware of their innate qualities and shortcomings, people can see a visible change in their personality.
4. Boosts confidence – Self-awareness also results in clarity of thoughts and increases the confidence to take up new challenges. Additionally, confident individuals are able to welcome new ideas and the opinions from fellow colleagues, especially while working in teams.
5. Better communication skills – After gaining the self-awareness skills, individuals are able to convey their feeling properly and understand the feelings of others to ensure that any tense situation is brought under control appropriately.

To conclude

A self-awareness course can help an individual to analyze his strengths, weaknesses, behavioral patterns and other aspects of his personality in order to attain a higher level of emotional intelligence. Furthermore, the course provides customized solutions to match the specific needs of every individual.

Kavita Neelakantan, Founder, Kavyata is an IIM Ahmedabad alumna (2002) and has worked for over 18 years in Learning Design, Facilitation, Career Coaching and Talent Management.