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self‐awareness training

Timothy T. Baldwin


Subject Business and Management » Human Resource Management, International Management


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Students of human behavior have long suggested that knowledge of oneself (self‐awareness) is essential to productive personal and interpersonal functioning. Dimensions of self‐awareness include personal values, cognitive style, interpersonal orientation, personality, and interests. Self‐awareness training typically consists of the trainee completing and interpreting one or more self‐assessment instruments (e.g., Myers–Briggs type indicator) and then receiving feedback from others, sometimes in an unstructured format known as sensitivity training. An increasingly popular form of self‐awareness training involves “360‐degree feedback” ( Van Velsor and Leslie, 1991 ), which refers to feedback collected from all those within a trainee's sphere of influence (e.g., superiors, subordinates, peers, and customers; see 360‐degree appraisals ). ( 1991 ). Feedback to Managers: A Review and Comparison of Sixteen Multi‐Rater Feedback Instruments (Technical Report No. 150) , vol. 2 . Greensboro, NC : Center for Creative Leadership . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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