Self-Awareness and

Regulation
Session 2
Service Culture
Objectives

•Explain the importance of

self-awareness and
regulation and discuss how
their practice helps
demonstrate a capacity for
leadership
Objectives

• Analyze situations in which

self-awareness and
regulation play a significant
role in leadership

• Resolve to practice self-

awareness and self-
regulation in order to
further develop leadership
capacity
Introduction

This module is an introduction to Personal Leadership

and Competence.

It discusses self-awareness and self-regulation as

foundations for leadership realization.

It was designed for students who are exploring the

values of personal leadership and competence and
how they should equip themselves to meet the
demands and requirements for success.
Self-Awareness and Regulation

IN the Modern Workplace:

Technical skills NOW take second place to an

employee’s ability to learn on the job.

Communication skills, adaptability, creativity,

responsiveness, personal management,
motivation, “contributorship”, social skills, and
leadership potentials are NOW specifically
identified as desirable traits.
Self-Awareness

Foundations of Management Skills

• Self-awareness

• What is awareness? Self-awareness?

Awareness is about having (or showing) a
realization, perception or knowledge of a
concept, situation, circumstance, or person.
Self-Awareness

Self-awareness allows us to recognize our

place and role in the world, and to express
thoughts and behaviors based on them.
Activity:

Self-awareness Questions
Self-Awareness

Are YOU self-aware?

1. (A) Do you listen to others during a

conversation?
(B) Or do you tend to do a lot of talking?

2. (A) Do you ask others how they feel about

situations?
(B) Or do you make assumptions based on your
own feelings?
Self-Awareness

Are YOU self-aware?

3. (A) Do you think about how your actions affect

others?
(B) Or are you confident that others are “fine
with how you handle situations”?
4. (A) Are you aware of other people’s social cues?

(B) Or do you mostly focus on your own?

Self-Awareness

Are YOU self-aware?

5. (A) Can you admit when you are wrong, and

have apologized when you are?
(B) Or do you tend to think that things are
wrong or go bad because of others?
Theories of Self-Awareness

Developmental Theory (Jean Piaget, 1896-1980)

• Has the assumption that a child’s thinking
changes at the precise onset of particular
developmental stages
• Focus is on the processes of
• Assimilation
• Accommodation
Theories of Self-Awareness

Developmental Theory (Jean Piaget, 1896-1980)

• States that growing up influences a child’s
capacity to understand the world; children
cannot do particular tasks until they are
psychologically mature enough to do so
• Inaccurate
Theories of Self-Awareness

Cognitive Development (Andreas Demetriou, 1950-)

• Offered a combination of empirical evidence from
Piaget’s theory and aspects of psychometrics and
cognitive theory
• Functional Levels of Organization
• Core processes
• Mental operations
• Knowledge and beliefs
Theories of Self-Awareness

Cognitive Development (Andreas Demetriou, 1950-)

• Aimed to describe and explain intellectual
development, individual differences in the rate
and direction of intellectual development, and
cognitive mechanisms underlying development
and the actual differences that occur between
changes
• More accurate application
Areas of Self-Awareness
and their Importance

Areas of Self-Awareness

• Personality
• Values
• Habits
• Needs
• Emotions
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy
Identifies Five levels of Needs
Areas of Self-Awareness
and their Importance

Understanding the areas of self-awareness help us gain insight

on the various aspects of our lives—including the competency
areas that influence our holistic personal development.
Areas of Self-Awareness
and their Importance

Competency Areas that Benefit from

Practicing Self-Awareness
• Skills development
• Performance
• Intuitive decision-making
• Stress management
• Motivation
• Leadership
Areas of Self-Awareness
and their Importance

Developing a healthy self-awareness is critical to

developing other skills considered to be critical
competencies for leaders.
Activity: The Animal In You

• The Animal in you - is an animal who can do

anything he/she chooses.
•  If you were an Animal - what would you be?
• If you were to describe your own unique talent
and potential - what you love to do and dream to
be - what would it be.
•  How would you draw your own Animal?
Expressing your dreams and self through
a Fantastic Animal can be easier and
more liberating than trying to imagine it as
yourself.
Practicing Self-Awareness

The Johari Window

Practicing self-awareness requires reflection. One tool

determined to illustrate the process accurately is the
Johari Window.

Designed with four (4) quadrants, the model assigns

specific ‘selves’ or personas to each quadrant:
Q1 – Public Self Q2 – Private Self
Q3 – Blind Self Q4 – Undiscovered Self
Practicing Self-Awareness
Practicing Self-Awareness

Quadrant Self Persona Characteristics

1 Public Open Personal attributes that are readily seen

or observed by the person and others in
him-/herself
2 Private Secretive Attributes that a person knows about
him-/herself but is not known by others
3 Blind Naïve Attributes that a person does not know
about him-/herself but is known by
others
Undiscovered Mysterious
4 Attributes that both a person and
others do not yet know of the person
and which are left for future discovery
Practicing Self-Awareness

The Johari Window

As a friendly tool, the identity quadrants define

aspects of our personality based on how our personal
attributes (strengths and weaknesses) are disclosed,
made known, or perceived by others.

Objectively filled out, it is expected to provide a

person with a holistic understanding of him-/herself.
Self-Regulation

• Self-regulation

• What is Self-regulation?

It is a stage where awareness of certain

behavior leads to self-policing action or the
capacity to alter behavior.
It determines how we can choose to respond,
and the way we do respond, to particular
situations, circumstances, events, and people.
Theories of Self-Regulation

Social Learning Theory (Albert Bandura, 1925- )

• Focuses on learning that occurs within the social
context
• Suggests that the environment has an effect on
modeling where individuals identify an “ideal” and
patterns their behaviors after them; modeling
becomes successful if there is

Attention Retention
Motor reproduction Motivation
Theories of Self-Regulation

Social Learning Theory (Albert Bandura, 1925- )

• Theory assumes that people learn from one

another such concepts as observation,
imitation, and even modeling

• Social Learning is considered the bridge

between cognitive and behaviorist theories
Theories of Self-Regulation

Self-Determination Theory (Edward Deci & Richard

Ryan)

• SDT assumes that people have psychological

needs that are the basis for self-motivation and
personality integration

• Cites three (3) needs which allow optimal

function and growth if they are satisfied
• Competence
• Relatedness
• Autonomy
Theories of Self-Regulation

Self-Determination Theory (Edward Deci and

Richard Ryan)

• Deci and Ryan stated that self-determination is

“to endorse one’s actions at the highest level of
reflection”; when we are self-determined, we
“experience a sense of freedom to do what is
interesting, personally important, and vitalizing”
Phases of Self-Regulation

1. Forethought / Pre-action or Setting Standards and

Goals
Sets the stage for action and maps tasks

2. Performance Control
Involves processes and the utilization of strategies
to reach success

3. Self-Reflection
Reflection after performance; outcomes are
compared to goals set in the forethought phase
Aspects of Self-Regulation

1. Setting standards and goals

2. Self-observation
Systematic monitoring of own performance

3. Self-judge
Systematic comparison of actual performance set
against goals

4. Self-reaction
Personal process of evaluation that takes places
during the activity
Practicing Self-Regulation

Methods of Self-Regulation
Identifying behavior patterns
Consciously observing the
frequency or intensity of
particular behavior
Challenging ourselves by
criticizing negative behavior and
reinforcing positive ones
Changing our reaction or
response patterns
Creating positive reinforcement
with the use of small, possibly
periodic, and reasonable
rewards
Correction in the event that
wrong behavior is demonstrated
Challenging defeatist attitudes
(Can you add more?)
Practicing Self-Regulation

When we learn to identify specific positive or

negative behavior, we can go about consciously
watching out for the cues, actions, or stimuli that
trigger them.

We can change our response patterns to stress and

other triggers. We can correct ourselves consciously
and challenge defeatist attitudes.
Application

How do self-awareness and self-regulation help

me develop leadership competencies?

What’s in it for me? (WIIFM)

Based on the Case Study presented:

How can self-awareness and self-regulation help

me go about developing my leadership potentials?
Application

What are performance pitfalls or behavior I should be

watching out for?

Why are self-awareness and self-regulation considered

desirable competencies?
 CASE STUDY
Leadership Crossroads
Instructions:

•ASSIGN - a group reporter who will be writing the

groups’ answers in a singular written report.

•ASK - the team to:

oREAD - the Case Study and

oANSWER- all the questions you will be writing

on the board.
Instructions:

•SUBMIT- a written transcript of the team’s

consolidated answers—written on (a) sheet(s) of
paper to be submitted before the class ends today.

•ASK the Students to also take NOTE that they

have homework required for submission in the next
session before the class starts.
Notes

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