Removing Your Blind Spots
SUMMARY
Do you sometimes wonder why you do the things that you do, why things bother you that do bother you, and why you react to them in certain ways?
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of what emotion you're experiencing — in the moment — and then use that information to manage your response to it. When there is a lack of awareness, that lack of emotional intelligence will cause you to react to what's going on around you.
Self-awareness is the key. Removing these roadblocks is what I want to help you to do.
TRANSCRIPT
Do you sometimes wonder why you do the things that you do, why things bother you that do bother you, and why you react to them in certain ways?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation around this shift in our intelligence by helping you to remove your blind spots.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of what emotion you're experiencing — in the moment — and then use that information to manage your response to it, therefore managing your behaviour.
So, what are these things called blind spots? Let's look at the Johari Window. Within that Johari window, you'll see that there are things that you know about yourself that others don't. There are also things that others can see in you that you can't see. Then there are those hidden areas — the things that you know about you, but you don't want others to see. And there are the blind spots — the things that others can see but you can't.
Before we can shift any of our behaviour so that we get different results, you and I need to take the scales off our eyes and ensure that self-awareness, the first quadrant in emotional intelligence, becomes a priority.
Within that area of self-awareness, there are three things that I like to work on with my clients.
The first thing is emotional self-awareness. Knowing in the moment what is the emotion that you're experiencing.
The second area is accurate self-assessment. A lot of times, we assess ourselves in a way that feeds that performance trap. Accurate self-assessment gives you the reality starting point that you need.
The third area is the area of personal power. Being able to know where you stand in terms of your own self-worth and self-confidence.
Self-awareness is the key. Removing these roadblocks and before you can remove them is identifying them — that's what I want to help you to do. I'll see you then.
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