Building self-awareness in leaders

Leadership and the development of future and existing leaders are priorities for any organisation. But enduring myths about what makes for good leadership, combined with a lot of poor practice in leadership development, leave the space mudied and full of myths and misunderstandings.

The experienced and accredited workplace psychologists at WorkLifePsych have launched a camapign to improve the quality of leadership development bust the myths that confuse the leadership conversation. We call it 'Sustainable Leadership'.

In this fifth webinar in the series, Dr. Richard MacKinnon and Dr. Wayne Mullen will address the importance of self-awareness when it comes to leaders' wellbeing, performance and impact on those they lead. They'll share:

• What self-awareness is for the contemporary leader
• How a lack of self-awareness impacts the leader, their reports and the organisation
• The contribution leadership coaching can make
• The role of seeking and acting on feedback
• How to address blind spots and an overly rigid self-concept in leaders

Your facilitators

The founder of WorkLifePsych, Richard is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Chartered Coaching Psychologist. He's also a Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Centre for Evidence-based Management. Richard has over twenty years experience as a practitioner, coach and leadership development specialist. He's also the host of the popular podcast about workplace psychology 'My Pocket Psych'.

Wayne is an organisational psychologist with decades of experience as a designer and facilitator of global organisational leadership development programmes. He has contributed chapters to two books: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’ ‘Dynamics at Boardroom Level’ and Springer Nature’s ‘Management for Professionals: Global Diversity Management’. Wayne is a Visiting Professor of Leadership, Diversity, and Organisational Development at Middlesex University.