This document discusses understanding and managing the self. It begins by defining self-awareness and explaining its importance. It then outlines dimensions of self-awareness like emotional intelligence, values, attitudes toward change, and self-assessment. Emotional intelligence is a key component and has four elements: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Developing self-awareness requires understanding emotions, strengths, limits, and values. Self-management techniques can help control emotions and improve performance.

1. UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING
SELF
Kamal Nayan pradhan
Sheetal Moktan
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2. Agenda
 Understanding self
 Creating self awareness
 Dimensions of self awareness
 Self management techniques
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3. Understanding Self
“He that would govern
others must first master
himself”
- Messinger
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4. Self Management
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Emotional
competencies
Time
management
Effective
communication
•improving
performance
•Managing
social and
family
relations
Self awareness

5. Self Awareness
“Knowing
yourself is the
beginning of all
wisdom”
– Aristotle
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“When you are
self-aware, you
can see where
your thoughts
and emotions
are guiding you.
Developgoodhabit.com

6. Self-awareness
Individuals who have high self-
awareness are:
 able to conduct accurate self-
appraisals,
 self-confident,
 perceive situations accurately, and
 willing to take risks for what they
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7. Paradox of Self-Awareness
 Individuals cannot improve themselves or
develop new capabilities unless and until
they know what level of capability they
currently possess
 Individuals avoid new self-knowledge and
resist acquiring information in order to
protect their self-esteem or self-respect
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8. Creating Self Awareness
Self Assessment
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9. Dimensions of Self
Awareness
Emotional
Intelligence
Values
Attitude
toward
Change
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10. Capacity for understanding one’s
own feelings and the feelings of
others, for motivating self, and
for managing emotions
effectively in relationships.
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Emotional Intelligence

11. Emotional Intelligence
 Essential in effective leadership, has
a direct impact on work performance
 Research at the Center for Creative
Leadership has shown that the
primary cause of executive turnover
was individual deficiency in the area
of emotional competence
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• Building
interpersonal
relationship
• Managing
emotions
• Understandin
g others
emotions
• Understandi
ng self
emotions
• Understandi
ng self
emotions
Emotional Intelligence
Framework

13. Components of Self
Awareness
 Emotional Self-Awareness -
recognizes one’s emotions and their
effects.
 Accurate Self-Assessment -
knowing one’s strengths and limits.
 Self-Confidence - a strong sense of
one’s self-worth and capabilities.-
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14. Emotional Self-Awareness
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Emotional
Self-
Awareness
how
one’s
bodily
sensatio
n and
emotion
s
oneself
others
environme
nt
allows to
understand
I
m
p
a
c
t
s

15. Accurate Self Assessment
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Open Blind
Known to
self
Not known to
self
Hidden Unknown
Know
n to
other
s
Not
know
n to
other
s

16. Self Management
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Self
Awareness
Social
awareness
Self
management
Relationship
management
Self
Management

17. Self Control – Managing
Emotion
 Things to be considered
 Understanding individual emotions,
 control emotional reactions,
 recognize how the emotions affect
individual’s actions and the actions
of others
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18. Some Hard-to-Handle
Emotions
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Research by Professor Cynthia
Fisher
Frustratio
n
Worry
Anger
Dislike
Feeling
down
Hard-to-
Handle
Emotions

19. Reasons of building
frustration
 a lack of resources impacting ability
to perform well
 limited promotional opportunities that
make feel employee stuck in a job
 a difficult manager who ignores
suggestion for a process
improvement
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20. Reasons for worrying
 hearing a new downsizing rumor
 finding out a new manager is going to
lead the team
 being assigned to a new project or
area of responsibility
 learning the company may merge
with another company
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21. Reasons for getting angry
 being disrespected or treated unfairly
 feeling violated, threatened or attacked
 being interrupted when trying to achieve a
goal
 being over-worked and underpaid
 having troubles in personal life
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22. Reasons for feeling down
 You are in the wrong job
 Feeling powerless or hopeless
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23. Reasons for dislike
 a demanding boss who rarely thanks
or appreciate employees for a job
well done
 a boss/colleague/junior/customer who
speaks rudely
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24. Ways to manage emotions at
work
 Recognize emotions in their early stages,
before they feel out of control
 Allow yourself to deal with difficult feelings in
appropriate ways
 Give appropriate feedback to clear the air
 Pay attention to your overall physical and
psychological health
 Choose someone you trust who knows you well
enough to give you honest feedback
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25. Social Awareness
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Self
Awareness
Social
awareness
Self
management
Relationship
management
Social
awareness
• Empathy

26. Empathy
 about understanding other people.
 ability to hear and understand
accurately unspoken or partly
expressed thoughts, feelings, and
concerns of others.
 People can appreciate not only what
people are saying but also why they
are saying it.
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27. Relationship Management
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Self
Awareness
Social
awareness
Self
management
Relationship
management
Relationship
Management

28. Building Relationship
 Know the relationship boundaries
and expectations
 Use appropriate self-disclosure
 Keep confidences
 Be enthusiastic
 Listen more and talk less
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29. Values
 Choose between alternatives,
assumptions about the nature of reality
 Learned early, continue to develop
 Drive choices and behavior
 Differ based on culture and environment
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30. Attitude Towards Change
The ability to process information is at
least partly constrained by the
fundamental attitude about change. Two
major dimensions
 Locus of control
 Tolerance of ambiguity
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31. Self assessment
Result
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Two Types of Personal Values
Terminal
 Comfortable life
 Exciting life
 World at peace
 World of beauty
 Equality
 Family security
Instrumental
 Ambitious
 Capable
 Cheerful
 Clean
 Courageous
 Forgiving
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33. Thank you
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