How to Build Self-Knowledge
Why should you build your self-knowledge? Self-knowledge helps you understand your motives, communication style, and so much more. As prevention leaders, we can tend to get so busy that we don’t make room to deepen our knowledge of self. However, I believe self-knowledge is where our superpowers and even joy come from!
Embracing Proactive Practices
Instead of waiting for the inevitable stressors that trigger less-than-appealing responses, self-knowledge helps us to pause and reflect on ourselves at that moment versus being reactive in a situation. It’s essential to be aware of our own patterns and what they’re rooted in so we can better manage them.
Leadership and Building with Others
Understanding yourself can help you drastically improve how you communicate and connect with others in all facets of life. While you have to look inward first, it can make you more empathetic to the outside world and various situations and personalities that cross your path.
Improve Emotional Competencies
When we have agency in our responses to a situation, we build confidence in ourselves and integrity with others. Improving our emotional responses encourages adaptability and resilience as well. One thing I've experienced with my coaching clients is their ease of thinking of 'areas of improvement' while I work to them to see and acknowledge their strengths. In my coaching follow-up emails, I will often leave them with the action item to pause, reflect, and identify a strength.
One of my favorite tools for deep-diving into these complex and highly personalized concepts is the incredible suite of tools behind Lumina Learning. Lumina Spark is the latest innovation in professional development and assessment tools as it breaks free from the world of dry, out-of-date psychometrics and stereotyping personality tests. It’s been a game-changer for myself and my clients.
Lumina uses innovative psychometrics centered on:
The Underlying You: The most natural version of you.
The Every Day You: How you tend to behave and are perceived by others.
The Overextended You: Who you are under pressure.
Their most recent launch is ironically the Lumina Emotion! Created by psychologists Dr. Stewart Desson and Julie Ensor (MSc), Lumina Emotions teaches us how to manage our personality effectively to suit changing contextual demands regardless of what our natural qualities may be.
While Lumina Emotion has been around for a bit, this awesome company did just release the Spark Coach Plus which pulls Lumina Emotion into the Spark Coach. So it's a two-for-one deal.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Interested in learning more? Get in touch and let’s chat about solutions that fit best for you and your team!
Keep Rockin’,
Dave
