The Self aware Leader: What are you missing?

Whether you're directly leading people or a project with multiple teams, as the leader you're expected to have effective communication skills and ensure everyones perspectives are heard.

In order to achieve this, it is important to develop your self awareness and understand your communication style to allow you to be able to adjust your style to be able to effectively influence others.

Being able to acknowledge and adjust your style will increase your leadership potential as well as having a positive impact on team success, as those individuals you are working with will feel more included and engaged.

Harvard Business Reviews research around leadership and team communication shows teams that are both inclusive and engaged make better decisions up to 87% of the time, as a leader adjusting your communication style will tremendously influence this.

Being self aware is to acknowledge what you could be missing from your leadership and communication style. InspireOD work with the Insights Discovery tool to look at your leadership weaknesses in order to support you to grow and develop as a leader.

Using the 4 colour model tool you can look at your leadership style to understand what is missing in order to consider your development journey.

Delving into the 4 main colours, Fairy Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green and Cool Blue, can give you an idea of what you could be missing in your leadership.... Can you recognise which colour you may not be using....?

Is Fiery Red missing?

Is Sunshine Yellow missing?

Is Earth Green missing?

Is Cool Blue missing?

Becoming a self aware leader

It's your responsibility as a leader to encourage positive communication in your workplace. Why not start with understanding your own style to help influence effective communication and team work with those you lead and work with.

Click Here to contact InspireOD and start your Insights Discovery journey.