What does it mean to be self-aware and how do you do it? 

Why does it help us to give and receive real and honest feedback?

What is the connection between self-awareness and getting comfortable with uncertainty?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 6

This Is Me - Self-awareness and Connection

with Julia Carden  

As an executive coach with a PhD in self-awareness and a background as a HR consultant, civil servant and Royal Navel Officer, Julia is perfectly placed to highlight why self-awareness allows us to become better leaders, team members and co-workers. Julia explains how self-awareness underpins every other form of self-understanding and how perspective and ego are part of what makes it so difficult to truly achieve.

Topics Covered:

• Self-awareness and the inputs and outputs of it
• The components of self-awareness
• Self-awareness and uncertainty
• Leaders and self-awareness
• How can self-awareness be of tangible and meaningful value in the workplace?
• Self-awareness and collaboration
• What are we inhibiting in our teams by making it unacceptable to express anger and frustration?
• Time commitment involved in becoming self-aware
• Why is it so difficult?
• How can you become self-aware?

Honourable Mentions:

• Simon Sinex, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Game-Businesses-Achieve-Long-Lasting/dp/0241295599
• Johari Window 
• Viktor Frankl
• Brene Brown, https://brenebrown.com/
• Helena Clayton, S01, E03
• Duval & Wicklund 1972
• Gabriella Braun, S02, E02
• Daniel Goleman, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Than/dp/0747528306
• Jim Collins, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996
• Paul Barbour & Lucy Widdowson, S02, E01

Julia Carden:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliacarden/

https://carden-consulting.co.uk/about-julia/

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertdigings/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years. 

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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