31 Things All Leaders Need to Know About Themselves. For most people, the key to becoming a better leader lies not in training or skills development, but in self-awareness.
For most of us, it's our blind spots that hold us back, not the things we already know we need to improve on. So here, in the interest of self-awareness, is a checklist of where I've learned over the years to look for my own blind spots, and for those of the leaders I coach. Your answers to the 31 questions below will each have one of two obvious applications: either you'll become more aware of leaning too much upon something; or conversely, you'll become consciously aware of things that affect you negatively, draining your ability to perform. Note: I'm not a psychologist or therapist, so I've stayed away from deep questions such as 'What do you fear?
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A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance.