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Growing a meaningful self.
Who are you? What do you see when you look in the mirror? What do you want others to see in you? Are you the same at home, at work and at play?
Identity development is a lifelong process, shaped by context and experience. Your social persona is the unique face you show to others. The self you choose to bring to work affects your interactions with colleagues.
Dr. Barbara Curry has done extensive research on adult identity development in relation to organizational leadership. She's a professor of education at the University of Delaware, affiliated faculty member in women's studies and the author of Women in Power: Pathways to Leadership in Education (2000). She spoke on identity and work relationships at the University of Nebraska's Women in Educational Leadership conference in Lincoln in October.
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"We live through the multiple realities of our public persona," she said. Our appearance, beliefs, values and behaviors all affect how people see us in a given setting.
All our interactions involve the ego. We want others to see us as perfect. Start with the body. It's a given. It's also ever-changing, partly through human efforts and partly in spite of them. "We are bodies in transition," Curry said.
Make-up, highlighting and surgery are just a few of the ways women strive to create an image of bodily perfection. That's an illusion. The perfection we seek probably looks pretty average to the outsider.
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