Tools for Self-Awareness

Tools for Self-awareness

Overview

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What Is Self-Awareness?

Self-awareness gives you a deeper understanding of your own attitudes, opinions, and knowledge and is focused on the impact your behaviour has on other people.

Self-awareness is one of the most important elements of emotional intelligence. It gives you the ability to understand and control your own emotions and actions, and it helps you understand how these affect the emotions and actions of others.

Why Self-Awareness Is Important?

Self-awareness brings benefits in both your personal and professional life. Research shows a strong link between self-awareness and high-performance at work. You're simply more effective in your role when you understand your internal state, as well as your colleagues/direct reports/stakeholders’ emotions.

If you're aware of your own strengths and weaknesses, you have the power to use your strengths intentionally, and to manage your weaknesses.

How to develop self-awareness

Complete a personal SWOT analysis from Mind Tools
Complete a DiSC profile
- A DiSC profile is a personalised developmental tool which looks at your behaviours, preferences and priorities at work, allowing you to fully understand yourself and also how to work and communicate effectively with people of other styles.
- In addition to the standard DiSC profile, we also offer Agile EQ. This is a DiSC assessment that focuses on emotional intelligence. This assessment combines personalized insights through DiSC with an active emotional intelligence (EQ) development component. The training focuses on teaching individuals to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and to have a strategy in place for how to respond appropriately.
- Want to apply? Contact your HR Manager to request a DiSC profile for yourself, or to arrange a DiSC workshop for you and your team.
- The cost per report is £35 and so this needs to be the appropriate development activity for you - sample report here.
Use STAR Framework to identify strengths and gaps - complete your PDP.

STAR 360 Feedback

Typically for band 3/4 People Managers and above. This would also work for those in project roles, influencing a number of stakeholders.

What is 360-Degree Feedback?

360-degree feedback is a mechanism which enables participants to gain a greater insight into how others experience and perceive them and compare this with how they perceive themselves. There are many benefits - increased self-awareness; a more balanced view; unearthing strengths; uncovering blind-spots; and skills development, to name a few. All of which are essential for continuous improvement.

An online 360-degree feedback tool will help you to:

Understand how others experience you and your leadership (peers, line-manager, direct reports and customers and/or suppliers), and
Identify strengths and areas you want to develop

As well as completing a questionnaire for yourself, you will also be asked to nominate a number of people with differing relationships to you, such as your manager, direct reports (if you have them), colleagues, and wider contacts to provide feedback for you.

Once you and your nominated feedback providers have completed the on-line questionnaire you will receive a one-to-one feedback session and a summary report.

Click HERE to view a sample report.

What do you hope to gain from completing a 360 process?
Do you have the support of your line manager?
Have you been in your role for at least 6 months?
Are you completing this to inform your PDP or to shape your PDP?
Cost is £90 - HR will arrange the set up of the report once agreed
Time to complete - initial setting up of your nominees and completing for yourself plus 90 minutes minimum for the feedback coaching session
You are responsible for ensuring you get enough responses - minimum of 4 people in each category are required for the report to generate
Reports are completely confidential, HR will not share any information from reports to others, including your line manager.

Is this the best way for your direct report to gain feedback from others?
How do they intend to use this opportunity? What will they do with the feedback?
When you complete the form, your views will be taken into account and will be visible to the individual i.e. you will not be anonymous
Cost is £90
Your direct report will have a 90 minute feedback coaching session with HR to take them through the report
The report and results will not be shared with you in any way - this is a confidential process and we will encourage individuals going the process to share themes with their line manager, however they may not share the entire report with you. HR will not share any information with you
Please ensure this process is not to avoid difficult conversations.

How to request 360 Feedback or DiSC

1

Have a thorough IDP discussion with your Line Manager.

2

Determine your specific need (DiSC report or 360 Feedback) and how this is relevant to your role.

3

Sumbit your request to your HR Manager.

For more information contact:

discoveryzone@tarmac.com