Self-Leadership Theory Flashcards
What is self-leadership
- The capacity to identify and apply one’s signature strengths to initiate, maintain or sustain self-influencing behaviours
- What, why and how we intentionally guide ourselves to desired experiences
Both naturally motivating tasks and tasks that must be done that are not naturally self-motivating - More autonomous workers → increased productivity
Four elements of Du Plessis’s Positive self-leadership capability model
Character strengths
Abilities and talents
Environmental strength
Interests and aspirations
8 Core competencies and skills of leadership
Identify desired experiences Constructive thought Harness the ecosystem Embrace failures Amplify performance Planning and goal setting Optimize motivation Self-awareness/knowledge
Self-awareness and self-knowledge
Inward inspection and mindfulness Self-knowledge (needs, motives and desires) - 1. Personality traits Increased conscientiousness → effective self-leader - 2. Personal strengths and weaknesses - 3. Values - 4. Talents and interests How to work with strengths
Identifying Desired Experiences
Ability to predict actions that will lead to happiness is poor
Need to understand and apply insights from happiness research
Constructive Thought and Decision Making
Proactively practice positivity to make rational decisions
Developing a growth mindset, control how we react to experiences
Planning and goal setting
Smaller milestones, SMART goals
Contingency plans, commit to documentation
Optimizing Motivation
Appealing goals, identify intrinsically motivating goals behaviour aligned to values
Cultivate willpower
Self-efficacy
Harnessing the Ecosystem
Nature and nurture interact
Seek support in the social, organizational, community, political and physical environment
Amplifying performance
High performance planning; planning, goal setting and intention forming
Self-coaching; navigate a coaching framework, such as the GROW model
Visualization techniques
Embracing failures and cultivating grit
Cognitive dissonance (fail and quit) Adjust expectations Self-compassion → increased motivation Grit; passion and perseverance for goals
Vulnerable populations
children/youth
Seniors
People with disabilities
Digital Health
→ accessible and engaging Digital care programs Technology Healthcare Fitness tracking/motivation
eHealth:
Electronic healthcare info, education and products/services
mHealth:
Medicine and public health
