Week 2: Self-Awareness (& Mastering Research Skills) Flashcards
1
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What is self-awareness?
A
Knowing your motivations, preferences, and personality, and understanding how these factors influence your judgment, decisions, and interactions with other people.
2
Q
Why become self-aware? Benefits of self-awareness.
A
- To improve performance
- To manage yourself
- set appropriate goals
- choose appropriate careers
- manage stress
- To develop interpersonal skills
- understand differences between you and others
- understand why others react to you the way they do
- adapt your communication behaviors to others’ reactions
3
Q
How can you gain self-awareness?
A
- Self-analysis
- Self-disclosure
- Other’s Perceptions
- Diverse Experiences
4
Q
About what should you become self-aware?
A
- Personality & specific traits
- Interests
- Values, goals and motives
- Knowledge, abilities and skills
5
Q
What defines personality?
A
- Stable traits that influence how you interact with your environment
- Broad 6 Dimensions
- Consciencousness
- Openess to experience
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Emotional stability
- Honesty - humility
6
Q
How do learning styles differ?
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- Active vs. reflective
- Sensing vs. intuitive
- Visual vs. verbal
- Sequential vs. global
7
Q
What determines CQ? What are CQ types?
A
- Head
- Body
- Heart
Types:
8
Q
What are the 4 types of leaders in the matrix?
A
- Authoritatarian
- Country-club
- Team
- Impoverished
9
Q
How can I learn from other’s persceptions?
A
- Reflected best self exercise: Identify respondents and ask for feedback
- Recognize patterns
- Compose your self-portrait
- Consider redesigning job / career
10
Q
What is the Johari Window?
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