Leadership Skills | Gaining Self-Awareness
Objectives:
- To help students understand why self-awareness is vital to well-being.
- To help students identify, analyze and develop their own strengths and capabilities.
- To help students identify and understand their personal values and how those influence their everyday choices.
- To help students understand how group memberships influence their perceptions, experiences and assumptions, and those of others about them.
- To help students understand how to proactively manage stress.
Module Overview:
The processes and practices of journalism can create a culture that views stress and pressure as just part of the job. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Journalists need to develop self-awareness so they can proactively manage their stress, perform their best at work and maximize their personal well-being.

