Thus far in our Being a Skilled Self-Aware segment of this podcast series we have focused on the Self-Awareness part of the equation. We first focused on discovering the Inner You (your Core and your Mental Models). We then moved to discovering and capitalizing on your Strengths. It is now time to move to the Skilled part of the equation. We start off by helping you in this episode sharpen your perceptive skiills to increase your awareness of just what is going on. Then, in the following two episodes entitled Skillfully Communicating about Differences and The Adaptive You, we focus on sharpening your communication skills to help you handle difficult conversations, and the need to self-regulate both your communication patterns and behavior to pace with what is going on.