Chapter 3 - Self-awareness and skill development. In this chapter you will learn: Understand how leadership is often contingent on people and situations; apply fiedler’s contingency model to key relationships among leader style, situational favorability, and group task performance; use the Vroom-Jago model to identify the correct amount of follower participation in specific decision situations;. | Chapter 3 Self-Awareness & Skill Development leadership After completing this chapter, you should be able to: Define personality and describe its components Explain the concept of self-awareness and how it differs from personality Understand why self-awareness is important to managerial and leadership situations Appreciate the differences between identity and reputation Chapter 3 Objectives Understand personality scales like the Big Five and CSES Describe the importance of communication, listening, and negotiations to leadership situations Highlight important skills associated with effective leadership Analyze how values affect behaviors at work Compare and contrast how culture and values are related Chapter 3 Objectives (con’t) Self-Awareness is an understanding of our strengths, weaknesses, and limitations Serves as a foundation for behaviors and skills goal setting, effective communication, listening, stress and time management Enables diagnosis of conflict sources, selection of . | Chapter 3 Self-Awareness & Skill Development leadership After completing this chapter, you should be able to: Define personality and describe its components Explain the concept of self-awareness and how it differs from personality Understand why self-awareness is important to managerial and leadership situations Appreciate the differences between identity and reputation Chapter 3 Objectives Understand personality scales like the Big Five and CSES Describe the importance of communication, listening, and negotiations to leadership situations Highlight important skills associated with effective leadership Analyze how values affect behaviors at work Compare and contrast how culture and values are related Chapter 3 Objectives (con’t) Self-Awareness is an understanding of our strengths, weaknesses, and limitations Serves as a foundation for behaviors and skills goal setting, effective communication, listening, stress and time management Enables diagnosis of conflict sources, selection of appropriate strategies, management of interpersonal relations and conflicts Self-Awareness The entire ensemble of physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics giving form to our behavior and lives Personality is defined by both genetic and environmental factors (., culture) Personality is difficult to understand from one perspective Consequently, numerous techniques and instruments are used to understand personality Personality Self-assessment and Personality Inventories Whether we can change our personality depends on how we define it Identity is who we believe we are - our internal assessment Reputation is who others believe we are - an external assessment Self-awareness involves understanding our personality It is about understanding and reducing the gap between our identity and our reputation Self-Assessment & Personality “Look in the mirror” Take assessments and compare to others Obtain feedback from others Three Ways to Increase Self-Awareness Our personality has .
