Topic outline
- How to be Self Aware
How to be Self Aware
Personality types, behavioural styles theories, personality and testing systems - for self-awareness, self-development, motivation, management, and recruitment
Personality and aptitude tests (psychometrics) are helpful for managing people and for understanding yourself. You should also consider using personality and aptitude tests if you are recruiting or developing people.
- Dr Katherine Benziger's theory of natural brain preferences, thinking and working styles, and personality assessment model
Each of us is motivated by needs. Our most basic needs are inborn, having evolved over tens of thousands of years. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs helps to explain how these needs motivate us all. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs states that we must satisfy each need in turn, starting with the first, which deals with the most obvious needs for survival itself. Only when the lower order needs of physical and emotional well-being are satisfied are we concerned with the higher order needs of influence and personal development.
- Impact on Others
Impact on Others
Intuitive appreciation and reflection of feelings, situations, choices and changes
How to read body language signs and gestures - non-verbal communications - male and female, for work, social, dating, and mating relationships
Graphology - the study of handwriting and handwriting analysis - is now an accepted and increasingly used technique for assessment of people in organizations
Cherie Carter-Scott PhD is a very modern guru. Her theories explain our attitudes and behaviour with a special clarity, and provide a practical guide to behaviour and self development.
The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group.
- Learning and Behaviour Styles
Learning and Behaviour Styles
- vak - visual, auditory, kinesthetic - learning styles model and free self-test
David Kolb's learning styles model and experiential learning theory (ELT)
The Multiple Intelligences concept offers a relatively simple and accessible methods to understand and explain people's preferred ways to learn and develop.
Four stages of learning theory - unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence matrix - and other theories and models for learning and change
Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains - Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor Domains - design and evaluation toolkit for training and learning
Experience-based learning - guide to facilitating effective experiential learning activities
- Reflect on Own Working Style
Reflect on Own Working Style
Reflective practice theory, history, definitions, methods, process models, and self-assessment tools, for self-improvement, training, and organizational development