099: Self-Aware Leadership with Dr Nia Thomas
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Release Date: 06/07/2023
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info_outlineOn this episode of Soft Skills for Leaders, my guest is Dr Nia Thomas.
Nia discusses the importance of self-awareness in leadership and provides tips and activities to help people reflect and grow in this area.
The conversation covers a range of themes from inclusive decision-making, to managing stress and emotions through meditation.
Nia emphasises the importance of conscious leadership, seeking unfiltered feedback, and developing both hard and soft skills in order to become a self-aware leader.
If you're looking to improve your leadership skills and gain some practical tips and insights, this episode is a must-listen.
Timestamps
[00:03:50] Defining Self-Aware Leadership Through Reflection and Regulation
[00:20:40] Self-awareness hindered by filtered feedback and disconnect
[00:23:50] Unrealistic Expectations and Toxic Leaders Damage Organizations
[00:20:55] Inclusive Decision Making: The Key to Project Success
[00:27:45] Self Awareness is a Never-Ending Journey
[00:28:42] Solo and team activities to grow self-awareness
[00:30:55] Meditation for self-awareness and breathing
[00:31:44] The benefits of video review
[00:33:14] Facilitated 360° review
[00:33:55] Trusted feedback from those you respect
[00:35:00] Three word feedback
[00:36:22] Softs skills for self-aware leadership.
Summary
Nia Thomas discusses various aspects of self-aware leadership, including solo and team activities for self-awareness, coaching and mentoring, the importance of inclusive decision-making and reflection and feed-forward to improve relational skills, and defining nine traits that make up a self-aware leader.
Talking Points
- Self-awareness as a never-ending journey
- Importance of coaching and mentoring for senior members
- Reading a room and observing behaviours as essential traits of an authentic and effective leader
- Unrealistic expectations in organisations and their effect on employee interest
- Importance of inclusive decision-making and listening skills in bridging the gap of strategic-level disconnect
- Various methods to build self-awareness
- Crises management from the macro to the micro level
- The Impact of bureaucracy and red tape on crisis response
- Psychological safety and the role of leaders in building it
- The Dunning Kruger Effect in developing self-awareness
- Importance of seeking unfiltered feedback for conscious leadership
- Nine traits that make up a self-aware leader: care, humility, authenticity, reflection, trustworthiness, adaptability, modelling behaviour, listening, and learning from experience
Links to other Soft Skills for Leaders podcast episodes
Connect with Dr Nia Thomas
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nia-d-thomas/
Website: https://knowingselfknowingothers.co.uk/home/
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Website https://www.speakingsavvy.com.au
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