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In this part of the session, you want to explore what self-awareness looks like (and what it does not look like). To do this, the participants will look at two scenarios and decide which scenario demonstrates self-awareness and which one doesn’t.

Tell them that:

• We want to explore what self-awareness looks like in practice.
• To do that you are going to explore scenarios of two managers in a similar situation.
• Let’s explore the first scenario.

Direct them to the part of their workbook titled – TWO MANAGERS, TWO MEETINGS – JANET.

WORKBOOK – TWO MANAGERS, TWO MEETINGS – JANET

Tell each of them to read the information there. It should take them no more than 5-minutes.

After they have finished reading, let them know you are now going to split them into small groups to discuss the scenario using the questions on the next page in the section titled – SELF-AWARENESS OR NOT FOR JANET?

WORKBOOK – SELF-AWARENESS OR NOT FOR JANET?

Next, split them into small groups using the ‘breakout rooms’ feature. No group should have more than four people.

Give them 7-minutes for the discussion.

When the time is up, stop them and bring everyone back to the main room. Appreciate them for doing the group activity. Now tell them that you want to hear feedback from everyone, but you are going to get them to put their feedback on a whiteboard.

You want each of them to tell you how Janet did or did not demonstrate self-awareness.

Display a whiteboard and tell them to write down their answers (make sure they know how to use the whiteboard. You may have to show them how to use it).

Allow them to write down their answers for about 3-minutes. Also, tell them to read each other’s answers. After 3-minutes, stop them and thank them for doing the activity.

You don’t need to give them any feedback at this stage.

Ask them for any questions and/or comments and respond to any they have appropriately.

Next, let them know that they are now going to look at the second scenario and do the same with what they did to Janet’s case.

Direct each person to the section in their workbooks titled – TWO MANAGERS, TWO MEETINGS – LEROY.

After they have finished reading, let them know you are now going to split them into small groups to discuss the scenario using the questions on the next page in the section titled – SELF-AWARENESS OR NOT FOR LEROY?

WORKBOOK – SELF-AWARENESS OR NOT FOR LEROY?

Give them 7-minutes for the discussion.

When the time is up, stop them and bring everyone back to the main room. Appreciate them for doing the group activity. Now tell them that you want to hear feedback from everyone, but this time let them know that you want to hear from each of them verbally.

Ask each of them for one of their thoughts about whether Leroy demonstrated self-awareness or not and why they thought so.

Next, let them know that having looked at the difference between Janet and Leroy’s self-awareness behaviour, it’s time to look at six actions we can all take to develop our self-awareness.

But just before that direct them quickly to the section of their workbooks titled – RANGE OF FEELINGS.

WORKBOOK – RANGE OF FEELINGS

Tell them that, generally all the feelings we experience are derived from five core emotions which are, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame. Allow them to read the information for a maximum of 3-minutes before moving on to the next part of the session which is to discuss, six actions for developing self-awareness.

The next part of the training session will explore six actions for developing self-awareness.