So I'm now finding myself about a week deep into the course and have read through a fair share of posts involving thoughts on Self-Awareness, and I've also taken the post learning assessment. Although I haven't had any grand epiphanies or otherwise, I do now find myself mulling more on the topic of how well I know myself and how it relates to my leadership. Indeed, after having been on hiatus from that line of thought for the better part of a year, now coming back into a leadership role at my job, coming back to this is something of a sobering experience.
I didn't see a very broad range of change in my assessment. Certainly, I feel like I still hold the same general values and still think roughly the same about my personality. But what sticks out is I scored myself a little lower on how well I grasp the idea of emotional maturity, and my understanding of how I cope with ambiguity. I'm also taking interest that although I scored as a Creative cognitive style, in some ways my habits are more in line with a Knowing style, namely I do like creative tasks and keeping busy, but I really like having very set procedures and rules.
Having read the material, although I still acknowledge I'm more grown up in comparison to when I first entered college, now I feel like I've still got a little ways to go in really knowing myself. This line of thought makes me think back to a New York Times article I read several years ago on this newer idea of young people in their early to mid 20's experiencing "Odyssey Years", where although they may legally be independent, they're experiencing more of an extended adolescence, wondering what to do with their lives and how. Perhaps this is just part of my experience of that idea, but I'd certainly like to give some focus to improving my emotional intelligence, and get a fix on how people cope with ambiguity so that I may improve my ability to lead, and maybe one day know how to lead myself.
I digress though...the bottom line is that I will likely begin to develop another lens in which to observe the workings of my organizations and how they might better themselves (although hopefully, I won't be trying to solve every problem with self awareness!)
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