Jakob Franzen is an executive coach, author, and public speaker who works with executives to find their authentic approach to leadership. Executives are bombarded by lists of skills they need to be ...

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Why high performers stall despite doing everything "right," and how building real self-awareness can help you make better ...

Do you ever struggle with evaluating how you are doing in real-time and pivoting appropriately? Metacognition, also known as self-awareness, is a key executive functioning skill that coalesces in the ...

When Peter DeWitt invited responses to the prompt “what does leadership self-awareness mean to you,” many ideas came to mind. I pondered what it means to be self-aware. Admittedly, the first thing I ...

It also frequently celebrates self-acceptance and constant self-improvement (“love yourself as you are” . . . but also “become the best version of yourself”), mindfulness and relentless ambition ...

Even though we live in a culture where social media gives anyone and everyone a platform to broadcast their inner lives, people today are astonishingly un-self-aware. Though 95% of people believe they ...

I enjoy working with clients alongside their relationship issues, decision making skills, substance misuse (self or others), and figuring out college/career direction. We will build self-awareness, ...

In every area of life — from business to dating to politics — the ability to assess someone’s level of self-awareness is crucial. Because without self-awareness, it’s unlikely that a person will have ...

Being self-aware is key to being a good manager. Emotional intelligence, or emotional quotient, is vital to our success in ...