Communicating to Increase Self-Awareness
Suggested Strategy: Practice the techniques that are essential to communication as a team. This will assist in the process of self-awareness and self-actualization. If communication isn’t there, it’s plausible that self-awareness isn’t either.
Suggested Questions:
Î Third-Party Question: How do you think a third party, or someone from another team/department would describe our communication? Why do you think they would provide the answer they did? Î Risk Question: What risks do we assume by not embracing a more proactive approach to communication? Î Dig Deeper: What is the relationship between communication and self-awareness? Do you think one precedes the other, and why?
Suggested Activities:
Î Whiteboard Coaching: Write on the left side of a whiteboard how they think their peers would currently describe their ability to communicate and/or self-awareness. Then on the right side of the board, write down what they think ideal communication and/ or self-awareness looks like. Erase the left side of the board and write down the steps that the team thinks are necessary to become communicative and self-aware on activities as described on the right side of the board. Î Building off the whiteboard activity, nail down exactly what each behavior looks like in the office. For example, if your team comes up with something along the lines of, “sending weekly reports”, define and coach by coming up with a shared definition of what those should look like.
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