Self awareness training is a long journey without a specific destination. It is all about changes that happen every day, you gradually change to be satisfied, become a better version at work.
Are you looking to have more influence at work? Do you want to make better decisions, or become a wise leader? And if you want all of these, Navigos Search will suggest a very useful technique, which is Self awareness. Certainly, Self awareness will help you always aim for the goal, becoming the best "version" at work. Join us to learn about Self awareness!
1. What is Self awareness?
Self awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards, according to psychologists Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund.
If you have a high level of self-awareness, you will be able to objectively evaluate yourself, manage your emotions, align your behavior with your own values, and understand what others are feeling about you.
Self awareness is the ability to focus on yourself
2. Two states of Self awareness
There are two states of Self awareness: internal self-awareness, external self-awareness:
- Inner Self-Awareness: How you see your values, passions, aspirations, how appropriate your standards are for the environment, how you react (thoughts, behaviors, feelings, scores) strengths and weaknesses). For example, you may realize that your current job is not suitable for your passion or feel uninterested in the communication between you and your co-workers.
- External self-awareness: The ability to clearly see how others see you. People who know how people see themselves tend to have more empathy. For example: Leaders with external self-awareness will understand how employees view them, helping to strengthen relationships with employees.
Two states of Self awareness
3. The importance of Self awareness
To better understand the role and benefits of Self awareness, an independent research group led by Tasha Eurich has carried out many studies related to this concept.
This research has shown that when you look inward, you will be able to clarify your values, thoughts, feelings, behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses. You realize your influence on others. Research by Tasha Eurich also shows that people with Self-awareness are happier, have more relationships and have higher job satisfaction.
When you're extroverted, you'll understand how people perceive you, and be able to empathize with many people, with many different points of view. For leaders, if they have Self-awareness, they will definitely know how to empower, lead and gain trust from employees.
In short, increasing Self awareness brings a lot of benefits, depending on the individual. Here are some common benefits of Self awareness:
- Gives you more power for better work results
- Help make better decisions, gain more confidence, and communicate clearly and with clear purpose
- Understand every problem from many different angles
- Pulls you out of assumptions, prejudices
- Helps build good working relationships
- Reduce stress, better regulate personal emotions
The importance of Self awareness
4. How to improve Self awareness?
In the process of improving Self awareness, you will experience different levels of Self awareness. Here are some effective Self awareness tips that you can refer to:
Ask yourself “what” instead of “why”
Psychologist Tasha Eurich argues that most people think in the wrong way and ask themselves the wrong questions. When trying to resolve inner conflict, you're sure to ask "why" questions, but there's no way to answer this question. Because you can't access many of your unconscious thoughts, feelings, and motives. The “why” question can easily lead you into negative thoughts. So, instead of asking "why - why", ask "what - what".
For example, if you are feeling depressed at work, asking "why - why am I depressed" will only make you more tired because you have to reflect on the negatives. As for the question "what - what problem at work makes you feel depressed" will be better. This question serves as a guide on how to recognize a problem at work to help you find an effective solution.
Brain training
Without Self awareness, you will let your emotions take over and can make bad decisions with unintended consequences. Therefore, you need to train your brain, always stand in the perspective of "outsiders" to more objectively evaluate the problem that is happening. From there, it helps to see the problem correctly, solve the problem and do the right work, bringing higher results.
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Be a good listener
When you learn to listen to your friends, colleagues, and bosses without judging them, you will empathize and understand them better. Listening to everyone also helps you understand how others are seeing you.
Besides, you should also listen to yourself to better understand your own thoughts and feelings. When you listen to your partner and yourself, you will see a more realistic and complete picture of your work and problems.
Taking note - an amazing habit
Taking notes will help your thought process very effectively. This also helps to free up the amount of work information in the brain. You can use a notebook to record your thoughts, feelings, and emotions in your work. Take some time out at the end of the day, focus deeply on your inner world, and jot down every problem at work. Surely, you will be surprised to read it again and learn a lot of valuable experiences from it.
How to effectively improve and upgrade Self awareness
Don’t be afraid to ask
At work, the comments, judgments and opinions of others are biases about you. Even they will not be honest when giving you suggestions. From the collection of opinions, perspectives, and different perspectives of people, we can see the whole picture of the work and the problem we are facing. With a cool head and Self awareness ability, you should distinguish and filter to receive the most objective opinion.
Enjoy the quality time
Regularly spend quality time with family, relatives, friends. This helps to balance work life effectively. When you balance these two factors, you will feel comfortable and the Self awareness ability will be enhanced.
Be proactive with practicing and experiencing
You should experience and be hands-on a lot to improve Self awareness more easily. The more work experience you have, the more you will be exposed and meet many different people, the more you accumulate and learn. At that time, you will be more self-aware, easier to understand others to behave, communicate effectively at work and bring the best results.
To accumulate a lot of valuable experience, you need to choose the right and quality job for yourself. And to do this, you can ask for the help of the headhunter team at Navigos Search.
The headhunter team are all experienced consultants, have a deep understanding of all fields of industry and a deep understanding of the value of human resources.
Based on a strict working process, based on capacity, experience and labor market situation, Navigos Search will advise candidates on the most appropriate middle and high-level job positions. After the candidate has been selected, the recruitment specialist will closely assist in the candidate's preparation for the job and other relevant necessary stages. At the same time, Navigos Search continues to accompany candidates throughout the process of "achieving success after getting the dream job".
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Right now, if you are cherishing the dream of becoming a mid-level or senior-level employee, quickly contact Navigos Search. We are always working tirelessly to help potential candidates reach their career dreams through the leading professional recruitment service in Vietnam today!
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