Tim Davies explains how self-awareness shifts people from blaming external factors to owning their role in outcomes. A "mirror" conversation helps people recognize their emotions and how they show up at work, moving them from autopilot to agency.
You're normally unlocking something by holding up the mirror to somebody and you're saying to them, so you've explained this situation and you've blamed your boss and you've blamed your team and you've blamed Brexit and climate change and everything else. What's been your role in this? If everybody else is wrong, maybe it's not everybody else. Yeah, exactly. And then when they start to do that, because many of them, I think a bit like I was in my military career, have a lot of self awareness, they're charging ahead on a path and then suddenly when they become more aware of themselves and their impact on others, their own emotions and how they bring that into the workplace, that's when the transformation happens because they start to feel differently about, okay, I'm actually in charge of some of the outcomes here because it's my responses and my inputs that are causing some of these challenges.
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