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Self-awareness and
self assessment

Self-awareness
▪is the ability to focus on yourself and how
your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or
don't align with your internal standards.

▪ If you're highly self-aware, you can
objectively evaluate yourself, manage your
emotions, align your behaviour with your
values, and understand correctly how
others perceive you.

Benefits of becoming more
self-aware
▪ becoming more satisfied with your job
▪ being able to better manage your
emotions
▪ better leadership skills
▪ improved relationships
▪ Higher levels of happiness

▪ more creativity
▪ better communication
▪ better decision-making skills
▪ more confidence
▪ more likely to make better choices

Characteristics of Self-
Awareness
▪ Wisdom – When a person actively works
to understand themselves and applies the
knowledge to their every day life, they
make a habit of continual learning.

▪ Honesty – A person that is self aware
does not sell themselves short, but they
also do not have an over-inflated view of
themselves either.

▪ Confidence – Self aware people want
honest feedback from others because it
keeps them more aware of how they are
coming across and how they are doing.
They already know their strengths and
weaknesses and have come to grips with
it, making them confident and secure in
themselves.

▪ Humility– A self aware person knows that
they have shortcomings. They realize they
need help from other people to help
bolster their own shortcomings. They do
not mind sharing the spotlight and lifting
others up.

Ways to tell if you are
self-aware
▪ Ability to take a step back from your
emotions and respond instead of react.
You can remain calm.
▪ Over-analyzing how you come across to
others and how your statements and
reactions sound.

▪ Not pretending to know everything and
being aware that you are not the expert on
everything.
▪ Seeking honest feedback from others and
not getting defensive when someone
points out something that could be done
better.

▪ Maintaining a growth mindset and realizing
that failures along the way are part of the
learning process.
▪ Knowing and staying true to your
passions, priorities, and core values.
▪ Understanding your own blind spots and
areas where you don’t see yourself clearly.

10 Benefits of Self-Awareness
1. More Empathy Toward Others
• is one of the most important benefits of
self-awareness.
• it enables you to build better relationships

2. Better Listening Skills
•Active listening is a skill that is growing
more and more scarce.
•The good news is that when you start
practicing active listening it makes a positive
impression.

3. Improved Critical Thinking Skills
•To start becoming self-aware, you have to
think and reflect honestly on yourself and
your actions.
•You have to do a great deal of analyzing
and separating yourself from you emotions
to come up with an objective picture.

4. Improved Decision Making
•When you realize how you come across to
others and you know yourself as well as
take the time to listen to others, plus add in
better critical thinking skills, it improves your
decision making skills as well.

5. Better Leadership Abilities
•Who would not want a boss that makes
good decisions, listen to his/her employees
with empathy, and has great critical thinking
and problem-solving skills?
•These are all benefits of self-awareness
that boost leadership abilities.
•They are the leaders that people want to
follow and work for.

6. More Self-Control
•More self-awareness also involves being able to
name your emotions, but not necessarily react to
them.
•It involves learning to separate yourself from
them. This leads to being able to think past your
initial reactions. Consequently, you can respond
instead of reacting when you get mad,
demonstrating more self-control.

7. Increased Creativity
•Though you might not think of increased creativity
as a benefit of self-awareness in the workplace, it
can be. Problems will inevitably come up that
require creative solutions. This can also be a
personal benefit of self-awareness because it will
allow you more personal satisfaction when you can
practice a creative hobby and feel like you produce
a quality result.

8. Increased Ability to Change Habits
•When you develop the skills of being able
to analyze the effects of what you are doing,
you also develop an increased ability to
change your habits. This goes back to
knowing the “why” behind what you are
doing. When you have an underlying big
reason to change, it’s much easier to
implement that change.

9. Higher Self-Esteem
•Higher self-esteem is another benefit of
self-awareness. It’s a natural product of
confidence, which self-awareness breeds.
You know yourself and come to grips with
your strengths and weaknesses. You don’t
sell your self short, but don’t oversell either.
It’s a nice happy medium.

10. Better Overall Perspective
•When you take the time to analyze all the
different facets of a problem, you come at it
with increased critical thinking skills and
creativity, plus take into account the
viewpoints of others because you practiced
active listening with empathy, you get a
better overall perspective.

The Johari Window
• The Johari window test was named
after the first names of its inventors:
Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, “Of
Human Interaction” (Mayfield
Publishing Co., Palo Alto, CA: 1969).
• The Johari window – which represents
self – looks like this:

Upper left window
• “I know you know”
This public window is known to self
and also known to others.
It is the field of open communication.
This is where trust may flourish.

Upper right window:
• “I don’t know you know”
This window represents our blind
spots.
It is the field where I might feel
vulnerable.
This is where self-discovery is a
possibility for growth.

Lower left window:
• “I know you don’t know”
This private window is our mask.
It is the hidden field.
This is where we keep our secrets.

Lower right window:
• “I don’t know and you don’t know”
This window represents the black box.
It is the unknown field.
This is where there is room for
potential.

The Johari window test is a model to
helps us enlarge the field of open
communication, to cultivate trust, and
ultimately, to improve our relationships
with those we interact with.

• Feedback helps us reduce our blind
spots and our secrets – it helps us
enlarge the public window, the “I know
you know,” the mutual understanding,
the trust (the great majority of
problems are due to the lack of a
healthy communication).

Confidence and Enjoyment of Learning
Questionnaire
• College students have varying levels
(from very high to very low) in their
Confidence and Enjoyment of Learning.
This usually depends on the subject
matter and type of assignment.

Becoming aware of the subjects and
learning assignments you may have
experienced lower levels of confidence
and enjoyment is the first step towards
finding new ways to approach your
academics.

• How Can You Find Out if You are
Experiencing Low Confidence and
Enjoyment in Learning?
• Take this short questionnaire as a way
to better understand your potential
learning roadblocks.

Check your Attitude
▪ I believe that even if I put in the effort I
will not do well in the class or the
assignment
▪ I blame the teacher when I am not
doing well in a class.
▪ I believe I am not a smart person when
it comes to school.
.

▪ I sometimes or often feel I do not
belong in college.
▪ I sometimes or often worry that others
will view me as "stupid".
▪ I have given up caring about my
grades in a class.
▪ I hate going to the class.

Check your Behavior
• I wait until the last minute to do the
homework in the class.
• I don't go to class.
• I say yes what I understand the
material, even when I do not.
• I copy someone else's homework.

• I give up easily when the school work is
too hard.
• I give up easily when the school work
is too boring.
• I make excuses to others why I am not
doing well in a certain class.

Check your History
• I have for many years viewed myself as
a poor student.
• I have been told for many years that I
am a lazy student.
• I have for many years not enjoyed
going to class.
• I view school as primarily a social
event.

▪ I don’t show my anger about everything
that makes me mad, but when I do –
look out. T F
▪ I still get angry when I think of the bad
things people did to me in the past. T F

▪ Waiting in line, or waiting for other
people, really annoys me. T F
▪ I fly off the handle easily. T F
▪ I often find myself having heated
arguments with the people who are
closest to me. T F

▪ I sometimes lie awake at night and think
about the things that upset me during
the day. T F
▪ When someone says or does something
that upsets me, I don’t usually say
anything at the time, but later spend a
lot of time thinking up cutting replies I
could and should have made. T F

▪ I find it very hard to forgive someone
who has done me wrong. T F
▪ I get angry with myself when I lost
control of my emotions. T F

▪ People really irritate me when they
don’t behave the way they should, or
when they act like they don’t have the
good sense God gave lettuce. T F

▪ If I get really upset about something, I
have a tendency to feel sick later, either
with a weak spell, headache, upset
stomach, or diarrhea. T F

▪ People I've trusted have often let me
down, leaving me feeling angry or
betrayed. T F
▪ When things don’t go my way, I get
depressed. T F

▪ I am apt to take frustration so badly
that I cannot put it out of my mind. T F
▪ I've been so angry at times I couldn't
remember things I said or did. T F

▪ After arguing with someone, I have
myself. T F
▪ I've had trouble on the job because of
my temper. T F
▪ When riled up, I often blurt out things I
later regret saying. T F
▪ Some people are afraid of my bad
temper. T F

▪ When I get angry, frustrated or hurt, I
comfort myself by eating or using
alcohol or other drugs. T F
▪ When someone hurts or frustrates me, I
want to get even. T F
▪ I've gotten so angry at times that I've
become physically violent, hitting other
people or breaking things. T F

▪ At times, I've felt angry enough to kill. T
F
▪ Sometimes I feel so hurt and alone I
feel like committing suicide. T F
▪ I’m a really angry person, and I know I
need help learning to control my
temper and angry feelings because it
has already caused me a lot of
problems. T F

If you answered true to ten or
more of these statements, you
are seriously prone to anger
problems. It’s time for a
change.

If you answered true to five
questions, you are about average
in your angry feelings, but learning
some anger management
techniques can make you a
happier person.

If you answered true to even one
of the last four questions, then
your anger has reached a
danger level.

Thank you for taking time
to answer the
questionnaire

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