Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The

Chapter Summary

Our self-awareness contributes to our managerial success. The more we know about ourselves, the better we can understand how our ways of seeing, thinking, feeling, and acting affect our work effectiveness and psychological well-being.

The self-concept refers to an internalized set of perceptions that each of us has of ourselves that are relatively stable over time, consistent across situations, resistant to change, and of central importance.

The self-concept is, in large part, socially and culturally constructed through our interpersonal relationships, identity and organizational group memberships, and social institutions.

Understanding our self-concept is important because it influences what we pay attention to, how we interpret ...