Self-awareness lies at the heart of effective leadership. A self-aware department chair understands why they lead the way they do because they pay attention to their own attitudes, behaviors, and motives. However, the most effective department chairs also practice “other-awareness,” which means that they study the impacts of their attitudes, behaviors, and motives on others. This kind of awareness can turn out to be your superpower, because it increases your effectiveness in developing meaningful relationships with your stakeholders, including your dean, faculty, staff, and students. 

In this course, you will start building your self-awareness superpower.  Specifically, you will accomplish the following: 

• You’ll reflect on why growing your self-awareness is important to you and how it can serve you well as a leader. 

• You’ll explore Tasha Eurich’s four archetypes of self-awareness—Introspectors, Seekers, Pleasers, and the Aware—and you’ll assess which archetype you represent. 

• You’ll work through a three-step process that will help you to develop greater self-awareness.