# self awareness
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43:41How people respond to CQ training (and the discomfort of self-awareness)Al Elliott: I have a question for you, Polly, but before I go on to that, is there anything that you'd want to add or comment on what Bernadette's just said? midroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Yeah, I just, I completely agree EP LIVE-2026-06-19 · 19 Jun 2026·interview· 43:41–46:5323:53Getting yourself out of the wayAl Elliott: I have a sense that a lot of great leaders are great listeners. Is that something which you've come across in your career? Martha Lawrence: Absolutely. If you don't listen, you don't learn. It really depends EP 291 · 9 Apr 2026·interview· 23:53–47:2468:15Being razor sharp and honest about your super skillsKristien Turner: I have to think from an engineer standpoint, like if they're not like clearing out tickets or if they're not like the productivity component to it, right? If they're not being able to complete tasks mostEP LIVE-2026-04-03 · 3 Apr 2026·panel interview· 68:15–70:4621:41Self-awareness vs. self-deprecation — and why they're not the sameAl Elliott: We actually have a lot in common. We both use behavioral science to help people do better at work Beth Sherman: It can Leanne Elliott: But come backEP 269 · 22 Jan 2026·interview· 21:41–26:347:51The internal battle: competing parts within leadersLeanne Elliott: So you talk so much in your book about how Chaos is as much, or dealing with chaos is as much the mental state as it is what is happening externally. How do we approach that in a way that feels manageableEP 257 · 11 Dec 2025·interview· 7:51–10:5034:05How to tell if you're the difficult one in the roomAl Elliott: Let me ask you, how can we tell if we are the difficult one in the room? Aoife O'Brien: A couple of points here, and stealing from Bob Sutton's book, Robert I. Sutton, his book, The No Asshole Rule. And he saEP 255 · 4 Dec 2025·interview· 34:05–37:5812:23How Carolina knew it was more than a bad weekAl Elliott: What's the difference between having a bad week or a bad month and what you felt like? How did you know it wasn't just something that, oh, it'll pass? Carolina Lasso: I thought it would be something that woulEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 12:23–15:362:41I'm not necessarily the cleverest person in the roomAl Elliott: I think you admitted to me when we chatted before that you are not necessarily the cleverest person in the room. So how do you manage all these geniuses? Steve Roest: Sure. So I don't have a clinical backgrouEP 213 · 10 Jul 2025·interview· 2:41–7:203:37Why most people don't know what they wantAl Elliott: Welcome back. So here's the thing. Before you can negotiate for anything, you need to know what you actually want. And Richard has this brilliant technique for figuring that out because our wants change depenEP 211 · 3 Jul 2025·interview· 3:37–8:5123:59Building Trust and Self-AwarenessRoit Feldenkreis: That is a huge question, of course. And we don't have, you know, like the entire map for, you know, doing that because it's a life's work. What I suggest, well, there are a few things I suggest, but theEP 209 · 26 Jun 2025·interview· 23:59–29:1954:58Is empathy the key to leadership?Al Elliott: If we could mandate self-awareness, many of the problems would dissipate or be more easily managed. Great harm is done to other human beings by people who don't know themselves. Even greater harm is done to vEP 158 · 31 Dec 2024·other· 54:58–58:022:23Tip 1: Know Yourself with Dr. Ryne ShermanLeanne Elliott: So over the next 2 Thursday episodes, we are aiming to bring you 10 tips to build a happy workplace. Let's start with you, the business leader. Along the way, we have spoken a lot about the importance of EP 100 · 23 May 2024·other· 2:23–11:3739:15Self-awareness: the key to effective leadershipJohn Amaechi OBE: If we could mandate self-awareness, many of the problems would dissipate or be more easily managed. Great harm is done to other human beings by people who don't know themselves. Even greater harm is donEP 82 · 14 Mar 2024·interview· 39:15–42:2028:14'I Wasn't Listening to the Signs' — Advice to Her Younger SelfJodie Hill: Really unfortunate in that I wasn't self-aware enough. So, one of the things that I would recommend everybody does is start to journal and try to be more aware of their emotions, their behaviours, and reflectEP 73 · 11 Jan 2024·interview· 28:14–29:5329:47Trend 5 — Emotional literacyLeanne Elliott: Yeah, I mean, being emotionally literate means being self-aware, recognising your emotions, recognising how those emotions affect your behaviour, and really crucially, understanding how to manage your emoEP 61 · 19 Oct 2023·other· 29:47–36:5044:52Ross's hiring secret: record yourself firstRoss: Before I made any hire, the first thing I did was I sat in a hotel room, set up a camera, and recorded myself recording a handful of videos to talk about our processes and procedures. And I did this intentionally bEP 42 · 7 Jun 2023·panel interview· 44:52–74:4033:57Step one: who am I? Clarifying what you doAl Elliott: The first step is always, who am I? And by that I mean Do you understand very clearly what you do and what it means and why it matters, right? So that gets to the core value, the value prop, what makes you diEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 33:57–35:1824:34The self-awareness cure — and Rob's polo coach confessionAl Elliott: So being aware that you're an asshole is probably one of the best things that you can do as an asshole boss. And it's— and you don't have to say, I am an asshole boss. You can have asshole moments like Rob exEP 30 · 15 Mar 2023·panel interview· 24:34–26:5835:21Internal vs external self-awarenessAl Elliott: So obviously, your key is to have good values, but also be aware of those values, as Rob explains. Rob Kalwarowsky: So, just to keep going a little bit deeper, there's 2 types of self- There's internal self-aEP 30 · 15 Mar 2023·panel interview· 35:21–39:5348:46"If you think you're an asshole, that's a good sign"Al Elliott: So this idea of being self-aware is something which Rob thinks is really, really important. Rob Kalwarowsky: First off, if you're thinking that you're an asshole, it's a good sign. Yeah. I mean, not that I'm EP 30 · 15 Mar 2023·panel interview· 48:46–51:5440:06Melissa on imperfect leadership & self-awarenessLeanne Elliott: I would love to. And this is a section where we're gonna be hearing a lot more from our 3rd guest, Melissa Carson. Um, as we mentioned as well last week, Melissa has worked with Accenture for a number of EP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 40:06–44:2819:54Self-awareness and the bottom lineRyne Sherman: Personality, I think, is really important for the workplace for several reasons. So really, actually, it was Bob Hogan, the one, and Joyce, who were the people who really kicked personality in the workplaceEP 26 · 15 Feb 2023·panel interview· 19:54–25:04
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