Deeper Learning-Self Awareness-Being Effective

Steve Roesler at All Things Workplace has posted another astute observation on self-awareness and performance.  "The numbers just might be exponentially better if you began looking at the deeper issues in life that impact one's total ability to lead, follow, and "perform".

Truer words could not be spoken. The invisible forces that impact performance are embedded in the beliefs, habits, and patterns of the company culture. They show up in the interpersonal dyanmics. One person can have a huge impact as his posting illustrates which points to the importance of being aware of what kind of impact you are having on others.

Peter Legge in his speeches on leadership would point out that no one wants to brighten the room by leaving it. That kind of impact is incredibly obvious. Being effective is far more subtle and means being not just self-aware but having brought the skill set up to a level of sophistication where you can discern, can tell the difference between fear and intuition and know when speed is use of the intuitive/adaptive consciousness Malcolm Gladwell refers to or when it is just being in a hurry. The latter means all the subtle subterranean cues get missed.

Effectiveness comes from developing mastery of the invisible forces within the self that impact the REST of communication (not just the 7% which is words). All of that is energy; emotional energy. Which takes us back to the cellular biology and the power of belief.

I find it fascinating that as humans we are quite prepared to do things over or do them again, rather than understand what is driving the result and focus on that. Cellular biology gives us huge insights into the power of the invisible. Dr. Bruce Lipton's site or listening to the interviews with him at www.FromInsightToAction.com explain the relationship to the self and the organization.

Self-awareness is the portal for increasing and expanding knowledge. Why do we continually dodge it or dismiss it as touchy feely?