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What is social identity, and why is it important? Learn how understanding social identity is necessary and helpful for leaders of the workforce of today and tomorrow.
Looking at 50+ years of our leadership research, we’ve identified the 4 essential leadership skills every leader needs: communication, influence, learning agility, and self-awareness. Among these, self-awareness can be the toughest to develop, but it’s the key to unlocking all the other skills.
Think about it: a manager’s social identity shapes how they lead and interact with others. By understanding this and knowing how they’re perceived, they can become better influencers and communicators.
Reflecting on experiences and learning from them helps leaders tackle new challenges with fresh insights. In short, self-awareness is the cornerstone of effective leadership.
Organizations can boost their leaders’ effectiveness by offering opportunities to cultivate greater self-understanding through self-awareness training. So set your people managers up for success in all areas of leadership with our targeted internal workshops or our highly personalized leadership development programs.
By leveraging our content, your leaders can develop increased self-understanding in 4 areas:
Start developing more effective leaders at your organization by equipping them with leadership training opportunities. We can deliver our world-class, research-based content to them — or you can.
You can use our proven content to deliver a workshop or internal training to develop self-awareness skills:
Help your leaders develop self-awareness and increase their effectiveness by leveraging 360 feedback assessments and internal coaching to build insights
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Or, we can incorporate self-awareness as part of a larger leadership development initiative for your organization:
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Organizations that have partnered with us to provide self-awareness training for leaders consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with CCL made a significant impact on their culture.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“I would recommend the Leadership Development Program for the self-awareness factor alone. One of the bonuses of attending the program is that you meet so many people from different industries and you get the chance to take a look at things from different viewpoints.”
Heli Helanummi-Cole
Channel Planning & Implementation Manager
Nokia
“When you’re a leader, it’s not about you. The CCL programs we rolled out helped to create self-awareness for our participants and laid the foundation for leadership learning journeys against a global benchmark.”
Sally Sng
Regional HR Director
Major Oil & Gas Company
Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation about increasing self-awareness among people managers at your organization.
What is social identity, and why is it important? Learn how understanding social identity is necessary and helpful for leaders of the workforce of today and tomorrow.
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Understanding the various aspects of identity — both your own and that of others — can help you spot situations when you’re unintentionally shutting down diverse perspectives or taking actions rooted in unconscious bias.
Self-awareness is a key foundation of overall leadership effectiveness. It’s also a critical component of emotional intelligence. So, any people manager can benefit from a self-awareness workshop.
Develop more effective leaders at your organization by leveraging the Center for Creative Leadership’s (CCL) self-awareness training for leaders. Participants will learn to understand their own strengths, weaknesses, preferences, behaviors, and style. By understanding these and increasing their leadership self-awareness, participants will be able to build a strong foundation for success.
The 4 critical facets of self-awareness in leadership are wisdom, identity, reputation, and brand. First, great leaders cultivate leadership wisdom by taking time to reflect on their experiences to gain insights that they can apply to new challenges. Additionally, leaders’ personal backgrounds and social identities influence how they lead and interact with their teams, so it’s vital for them to understand their own identity and those of others. Next, leaders must be aware of their reputation to know how they may be perceived and judged by others — this facet also enhances influence and communication skills. Lastly, leaders must understand their brand in order to bring their strengths to the table and communicate their capabilities. While it may be one of the most challenging leadership skills to develop, there are sure-fire ways to boost self-awareness.
Self-awareness in leadership is important because leaders must understand how their behaviors, preferences, and style may impact other individuals, as well as organizational outcomes. In fact, self-awareness is so critical to a leader’s success that our research has found it is among the “fundamental 4” core leadership skills needed in every role and industry.
Self-awareness in leadership is one of the fundamental 4 leadership skills, and it is essential to driving leadership effectiveness, working well with others, and strengthening emotional intelligence. Based on our world-renowned research and decades of experience, we have identified 4 critical facets of self-awareness in leadership, including wisdom, identity, reputation, and brand. By understanding themselves and recognizing how their actions can affect others, leaders are better suited to collaborate effectively, tackle new challenges, navigate complex environments, and make difficult decisions in the middle of rapid change.
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Package our research-based content on self-awareness in leadership with other proven leadership development topics for a customized, scalable training solution that’s perfect for your organization’s unique needs, context, and culture. Related topics include:
