6 Summary
Now that you’ve looked at the concept of self-awareness in more detail, you should feel more confident about what it involves and why it plays such a critical role in your self-development. You’ve undertaken a variety of exercises that have enhanced your self-awareness and helped you to build a clearer picture of who you are.
You should now be able to:
- recognise the value of self-awareness
- use some of the tools and exercises available to help you become more self-aware
- identify obstacles to developing self-awareness.
Reflection
Use the box below to note down any actions you will take as a result of what you have learned this week. This will be useful when you come to Week 8, reflecting on what you have learned over the whole of the course and planning your next steps, but you can also use it to check on your progress at any point.
Next week, you’ll focus on some of the other skills that are crucial to effective mentoring and coaching, including building rapport and listening.
You can now go to Week 3 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .