Category Archives: Self-Knowledge

Building Self-Trust

High self-trust is a essential to leadership. At a bare minimum we need it because leadership often demands we handle tense or sensitive situations and potentially must make unpopular decisions. Sometimes we must influence not only ourselves but a team or several teams or a whole organization. I use this word, self-trust, instead of self-confidence […]

December 18, 2020 – 4:24 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Openness, Self-Knowledge | Comments (2)

How to Meet a Strong Emotion

The problem with strong emotions is that we over-identify with them. It’s not that I feel sad. I am sad. It’s not that I feel envious, or mad or guilty. Rather, all too easily I become these emotions and act them out. Later, I may say: “I wasn’t myself” (but, of course, I was.) If […]

December 13, 2020 – 2:35 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Consciousness, Self-Knowledge | Comments (1)

Inner Worlds, Outer Actions

At the second conversation with a new client, she said to me, “I really got the point of what you said in our first session. It was kind of, ‘Stop whining and get back to work.’” This was way off. I’d said no such thing. This was clearly the inner world of the client acting […]

August 4, 2020 – 2:04 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Conflict, Consciousness, Healing, Listening, Self-Knowledge | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Addressing Your Own Leadership Blind Spots

I’ve posted a sequence of three videos to YouTube on addressing your own leadership blind spots. I felt using video might make this topic more direct and personal. Blind spots are tough. We all have them and they can be challenging to root out — given especially that we often prefer others do their work […]

July 28, 2020 – 10:57 am | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Consciousness, Openness, Self-Knowledge | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)