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Strategic Self-Awareness
Enhance LeadershipStrategic Self-Awareness Workshop
Strategic self-awareness is the first step towards success. Knowing self is wisdom.
Incorporating well-researched concepts and scientifically-validated data from our global assessment publisher partners, and supported by Optimal’s insights from more than twenty years of leadership assessments and development experience, this workshop will enable individuals to build their personalised roadmap to success.
Features
Interactive walkthroughs simplify scales, scores, and core behavioural insights
Guided reflections connect psychometric findings to leadership challenges
Strength–derailer mapping reveal when advantages shift into potential performance risks
AI-driven development planning turn insights into personalised, practical action steps
Optimal’s Strategic Self-Awareness Workshop is designed to help participants:
- Understand their strengths and opportunities for change and growth;
- Understand how their strengths and challenges relate to those of others;
- Understand how to adapt their behaviour to increase effectiveness
What You’ll Gain
SELF-AWARENESS MASTERY: Distinguish between how you see yourself and how others perceive you, bridging the gap between intention and impact.
ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK: Translate self-awareness into sustainable leadership habits that support continuous growth.
PSYCHOMETRIC LITERACY: Understand the science behind your assessment, what each scale measures, how scores are interpreted, and what emerging patterns mean for your behaviour.
DERAILER RECOGNITION: Identify when your greatest strengths are at risk of overuse, and develop strategies to course-correct before friction arises.
DEVELOPMENT AGILITY: Partner with generative AI to co-create a specific, actionable development plan aligned with your real-world leadership context.
Gain the insights, tools, and strategies to lead authentically, adapt with confidence, and build a leadership practice that grows with you.
The workshop complements the profiling tools we carry from Hogan Assessments, SMG and our own multi-rater tool, optimal360. Participants have to complete the selected profiling tool prior to the workshop.
Here are the six workshops using the various assessment tools:
- Using Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
- Using Hogan Development Survey (HDS)
- Using Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI)
- Using Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
- Using Sales Potential Tools POP / SPI / SPI+ / RSPI
- Using optimal360
Six Types of Strategic Self-Awareness Workshops
01
Hogan Assessment Systems (HPI, HDS & MVPI)
Workshop Duration: Half Day
This workshop builds strategical self-awareness by providing an overview of Hogan Assessment Systems and showing how personality influences leadership effectiveness, team culture, and overall performance.
Key Takeaways:
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- Identify strengths, derailers, and unconscious biases.
- Understand and appreciate diverse leadership styles.
- Create a personalised, actionable development plan.
- Explore motivational drivers and strategies to overcome challenges and sustain growth.
02
Optimal’s Competency Framework
Workshop Duration: Half Day or Full Day
Deepens understanding of the competencies, counterproductive behaviours, and engagement drivers that influence leadership effectiveness.
Key Takeaways:
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- Identify strengths, gaps, and behaviours to improve work effectiveness.
- Assess engagement and disengagement factors that influence performance.
- Build a tailored development plan for sustained growth.
03
Hogan Development Survey (HDS)
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Deep dive into HDS insights to understand how personality derailers emerge under pressure and affect leadership effectiveness.
Key Takeaways:
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- Recognise strengths and overused strengths that may lead to derailment.
- Understand how derailers impact leading self, leading others, performance, and future potential.
- Gain developmental recommendations for greater leadership versatility.
04
optimal360
Workshop duration: One day
Enhances awareness of hidden strengths and blind spots, their impact on effectiveness and relationships, and offers strategies needed to close behavioural gaps.
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding how hidden strengths and blind spots influence effectiveness.
- Recognise the impact of behaviours on performance and relationships.
- Explore targeted interventions to bridge behavioural gaps.
05
Predictor of Potential (POP)
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Uses POP insights to identify performance blockers, address can-do and will-do gaps, and manage overused strengths.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand difference between can-dos (traits, tendencies) and will-dos (attitude, preferences).
- Learn strategies to manage gaps or complement them.
- Explore approaches for sustained growth.
06
Mosaic Personality Tasks
Workshop Duration: Half Day or One Day
Examines self-perception, performance gaps, key strengths and challenges, and effectiveness of leadership style.
Key Takeaways:
- Gain a clear understanding of personality strengths and challenges in terms of competencies and leadership styles.
- Assess effectiveness for current and future roles.
- Create a personalised development plan.
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Self-Awareness Workshop brochure.