Working in the leadership development industry for more than 25 years, I have found that unconscious incompetence is the starting point for most positive interventions. We often get in our own way and have no idea that we are the problem. So, this article attracted my attention.
Source: Source: LinkedIn Pulse, July 20, 2016.
Self-awareness, one of the four key components of emotional intelligence, underlies the other three. Without knowing what we’re feeling, we can’t take steps to control those emotions. Such self-management is the second component. Lacking self-awareness, we can’t have the third, social awareness. We don’t understand how we impact other people and can’t tune in to what others feel. Moving beyond awareness of others to interaction, without self-awareness, the fourth – relationship management – is impossible.
INSIGHTS: The greatest contribution a leadership coach can provide is the unfiltered feedback to help a client move from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. Once that transition is achieved, the journey to conscious competence and then unconscious competence is much easier.