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Have You Ever Asked Someone to Critique You? Here Are 4 Reasons Why You Should.

Photo Credit: Marius ciocirlan, Unsplash.com “Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.” –Stephen Covey We’ve talked a lot about the role that self-awareness plays in leadership. In my last two blogs, I addressed the importance of internal tools such as leveraging mindfulness, while identifying triggers that can help you recognize thoughts and behav

Proven Tips to Increase Your Self-Awareness as a Leader

If you joined me in my last blog, you hopefully learned that all great leaders have one thing in common: they have high self-awareness and actively seek to understand how their words and actions affect others and their overall goals. We covered how a leader’s level of self-awareness can affect the clarity of his or her team, the trust their employees put in them, and their ability to make decisions quickly and decisively. We also saw some symptoms of a team headed by a leader

How Do You Respond to Change?

A couple of weekends ago I was thrilled to be able to attend TEDx Omaha and hear some amazing speakers share their stories, their views of the world, and their hopes for the future. The theme of Tedx Omaha this year was "Everything Changes", and the various ways these speakers chose to approach that theme was interesting. Some spoke about life experiences that forever changed them. Some spoke about how our societies have evolved and are continuing to change. Some spoke about