Self-Awareness
The idea behind self-awareness is being aware of one’s owns
emotions. Generally speaking any job that entails working with others, either
it be coworkers or customers, it involves realizing the potential impact it can
have on performance and relationships. This applies to me because I’m
consistently working with the same group of people to fix aircraft and it’s
important to have a good working relationship with those that I work with.
The major strength that I have in this area is the fact that
I do recognize my emotions when interacting with others and the potential impact
it has on my relationship with them. The area where I need to develop the most
is building and continuing resonance within these relationships. For me it’s
very taxing to become emotionally and personally involved with others and as a
result I become rather passive when it comes to casual conversation. Ideally I
believe I should be more active and invest my time in the development of
everyone, including subordinates, peers, and even supervisors.
Self-Management
Self-control is big in self-management. Self-control in my
opinion is defined as being rationally able to do a risk-benefit assessment on
everything that we do (or not do), before we do it (or not do it). There are a
lot of things that I would like to do, but I don’t do it because the potential
rewards don’t outweigh the risks.
They say that if you don’t have anything nice to say to not
say it at all. Out of the supervisors that hand out orders or tell me what to
do, I have the least respect for those that I don’t believe would be willing to
do the work themselves or try to put forth an equal amount of effort towards
accomplishing the mission. In these cases I refrain from publicly lashing
them and instead just do what I’ve got to do. I also don’t hold back on my
“please” and “thank you” or common courtesies such as holding a door open or
defending them when they’re wrongfully accused, which I will admit is rather
difficult to do but I manage. In the long run, I believe that rather having a
spiraling negative relationship with someone it is better to show that initial
initiative towards trying to build that positive working relationship. In a
world of givers, matchers, and takers, sometimes you have to show that initial
initiative before they’re willing to match it.
Social Awareness
Empathy is big in any sort of relationship with anyone. I
use to work at a volunteer organization called Samaritans where I would speak
with people with feelings of distress, despair, or suicidal thoughts. The
number one thing that they taught during our training was that “empathy is
everything, sympathy is nothing.” This isn’t entirely true, but the idea was
that people want to be understood more so than pitied upon. My biggest strength
is that I believe I am highly empathetic, but my biggest weakness is showing it
or conveying my attempt to understand. Instead I react rather emotionless, or
worse, smile or chuckle under what I believe to be stressful situations (under
stress that’s how I react, which can be interpreted as if I laugh at their
misfortune).
Social Skills
Developing others is an important social skill for any good
leader. The leadership style that I hope to adhere to one day is that of a
servant leader. I want to develop those under me to becoming the best that they
can be, if not better than they can be.
My biggest strength is that I believe that if an individual
is already self motivated, that through my feedback and guidance they develop
in a way that guides them towards their long-term goals. My weakness however,
is finding a way to motivate someone who has to long term plans or goals in
life and doesn’t know what they want to be “when they grow up.”
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