Great leadership starts with self-awareness. Awareness of your strengths and lesser strengths helps you understand how to leverage your and others’ strengths more efficiently and productively to accomplish results.

• Learn about the three parts of the mind and how they combine to make each of us unique.
• Affective preferences include our feelings, emotions, beliefs, and values. Our feelings are a choice and can change over time.
• Conation is part of the mind that represents our natural instincts and talent to strive and perform at our best with less stress. The objective is to reduce stress by following our instincts and doing tasks how they are natural to us.
• Cognitive strengths represent our education, training, and skills that we have learned over time.
• Assessments can be used as a baseline for understanding your strengths and those of others.
• Being conscious of our strengths and actions gives us the power to gain confidence and learn more.

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

• The three parts of the mind | Shelley Moore
• Kolbe and Instincts | Shelley Moore
• Kolbe Wisdom™ | T Kolbe.com
• Intentional Unconsciousness | Shelley Moore
• Conation As An Important Factor of Mind | Educational Psychology Interactive
• Worksheet: Three Parts of The Mind | Shelley Moore