Leadership Framework: Learning and self-awareness

Why it matters

This core behaviour is essential for an individual’s growth and improvement. It will support a leader in reducing repeated mistakes, creating a positive attitude and promoting behaviours that embrace learning and raised self-awareness. It will enable the full development of other key behaviours needed for a high level of performance and support the individual in reaching their true potential as a leader.

What it is

• The capacity to learn from experience and feedback.
• The ability to grow and improve by making accurate and objective self-assessments.
• Using self-knowledge to adapt one’s approach to different challenges.
• Giving time to appropriate and focused development activities.

What it is not

• Showing little interest in self-assessment or feedback, or just 'appearing' to do so.
• When completed, self-assessment is inaccurate; over or under optimistic in nature and content.
• Avoiding or passively accepting development opportunities with little or no resulting changes.
• Unwilling to 'own' mistakes or to learn from them.
• Taking little or no responsibility for impact on others – looking to blame external sources or others – showing a lack of emotional self-awareness or learning.
• Focusing so much on the immediate demands of the task that there is no time or opportunity to reflect on performance.

• Internal and external training opportunities
• E-learning
• Academi Wales learning opportunities (external website)
• Secondment opportunities
• Leadership microsite
• Learning and Development policy (PDF, 1.37MB)
• Psychometric Assessments (OPQs)
• Apprenticeships, Frameworks and Management Qualifications
• 360 Degree Feedback
• One to ones
• Leadership Conference