Want to Be More Self-Aware? Build a Better Team

Audrey Epstein Shares Five-steps To Increase Your Leadership Awareness Image through Pablo by Buffer By Audrey Epstein There are lots of compelling reasons to build a better team. Great teams: Deliver stronger results faster Are more innovative Challenge you to learn more quickly and be at your best Are simply more fun Recently, I found a new reason to build a better team – because most of us are surprisingly unself-aware. Researcher and author Tasha Eurich uncovered this disturbing statistic through her multi-year study on the topic of self-awareness: about 95% of us think we are quite self-aware, but only about 10% to 15% of us actually are! So how can better teams help with self-awareness? Here’s the important connection. We need feedback to help match our internal view of ourselves with the external view. And on the best teams, not only are teammates willing to provide feedback to each other, they are required to. On high-...