Self-Awareness Inventory Worksheet

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Click here to view and download the Self-Awareness Inventory Worksheet.

Imagine yourself on a Zoom Meeting with your colleagues.

You're re-planning the second half of the year's objectives by assessing the needs of your organization based on the challenges of the past 4-5 months.

Everyone is about to agree on the new plan and alas, your peer raises one more "What if?" question.

Instinctively, you cut them off and jump into answer mode to explain enthusiastically why it will all work out perfectly. Undoubtedly, your peer will be ecstatic and at peace with your responses.

You take a sigh of relief as you're certain everyone is now on the same page until you hear one more "Yes, but..."

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Our communication with one another and understanding our own perspectives during those interactions is invaluable both personally and professionally.

How do we equip ourselves to effectively communicate, listen and respond to others from our informal greetings between colleagues to our formal interactions with customers and partners?

We start with and recommend the following tools for the Leader Managers we engage with:

Primary Tools:

DiSC Preferred Behavioral Approach – Communication Style

Change Readiness Profiles (CRP) – Level of Change Readiness

StrengthsFinder – Natural Talents

Secondary Tools:

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Understanding Emotions and Behavior

Leadership Practices Inventory – Leadership Style and Effectiveness

You can check in with your Leader Manager or HR Professional to identify which tool(s) could be most helpful to you.

Upon completion of the profiles, we encourage you to record and review your results in the Self-Awareness Inventory Worksheet with your Leader Manager as part of the on-going 1-1 coaching process.

Based on your inventory, you and your Leader Manager can identify goals and connect them to the objectives in your Annual Development Plan.

Click here to view an example and template of an Annual Development Plan.

For example, you might initiate a Crucial Conversation with a Team Member or proactively engage in a project or meet with someone that "makes your stomach hurt.".

Developing ourselves and our self-awareness is a choice and as we say in Managing From The Inside Out: Choice is an event, change is a process and the commitment to that is a discipline!