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McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership issued the following announcement on Aug. 12
Save the Date | The Importance of Self-Awareness The McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership is pleased to announce the dates of our next Leadership Connections national conference! Our three-day conference will deliver the quality experiences you have come to expect from the McCormick Center from the comfort of your home or workplace. Conference attendees will learn from and connect with a diverse group of leaders in our field on a variety of topics. We are excited to explore new and innovative ways to connect with you—and to connect you with each other!
The feedback we received from last year’s fully-virtual conference was overwhelmingly positive and we are confident that we can build on this success to offer an even more engaging and exemplary experience. So, mark your calendars for April 27-29, 2022 to attend Leadership Connections 2022.
What can you expect?
- Engaging sessions focused on early care and education leadership development
- Connecting with early childhood professionals from around the country and abroad
- Inspiring keynotes
- Opportunities to grow your networks
- Pre-conference on Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Why Do You Need to Know?
How Self-Awareness, Reflection, and Self-Mentoring Propel Us Forward
Who are you? How well do you know yourself? For some, these questions are easy to answer. For others, the answers may be perplexing. As administrators of early care and education programs, the answers to these questions play an important part in your ability to successfully lead others. It has been said that to lead others most effectively, you need to know who you are as a person. I think the following quote makes another case for building self-awareness.
“Who we are is how we lead.”
– Brené Brown
Your leadership style is influenced by who you are in a number of ways; your attitudes, beliefs, values, communication style, behaviors, definition of success, confidence, insecurities, and motivations are just a few of the key ingredients that form your identity. Many other considerations also come into play when becoming aware of who you are and who you want to be, such as influences from your early years, family upbringing, education, groups you have been a part of, social events you lived through, life experiences, physical characteristics, personality, and developmental career stage. Self-awareness involves becoming knowledgeable of these influences and how they contribute to your interactions with others.
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