selfmanagement_skills
selfmanagement_skills
What is self-management skill and what are the benefits of self-management skills?
Self-management is also referred to as ‘self-control’ or ‘self-regulation’, is the ability to regulate one’s
emotions, thoughts, and behaviour effectively in different situations.
It is a way of understanding yourself, your interest, abilities and how to keep a positive attitude in difficult
situations.
Benefits of Self-Management skills
• It helps to develop good habits
• Also helps in overcoming bad habits
• Gives motivation to achieve goals in life
• Helps in overcoming in difficult situations
To avoid stress
How to manage yourself?
Self Management Skills includes:
Self-awareness- Know about yourself
Self-control- Ability to control your behaviour
Self-confidence- Be confident you can achieve anything
Problem-solving- Try to find the solution to problems in your life
Self-motivation- Keep your self-motivation high
Personal Hygiene- Keep yourself clean, smart and healthy
Positive Thinking- Think Everything will be fine
Team Work- Support your team members in the work
Time Management- Complete task on time
Goal Setting- Make a goal. what do you want to achieve?
Strengths are what we do well and are good at. Everyone has some strengths.
Weaknesses, also known as ‘areas of improvement’ are what we do not do well and are not good at. Everyone
has some weaknesses too.
How to Identify strengths?
Take time off to think about what you do well.
Think of anything that you are always good at.
Think about what others appreciate about you.
How to Identify weaknesses?
Find out the areas where you struggle.
Look at the feedback you receive from others.
Difference between interests and abilities
Interests are the things that we enjoy doing. for example activities we would do even if no one asked us to do
it.
Ability, on the other hand, is an acquired or natural capacity that enables an individual to perform a particular
job or task with considerable proficiency.
Self-confidence
Self-confidence is a sense of trusting own’s abilities. In other words Self-confidence is a quality that we build
when we believe that we will get success in anything we do in life.
Qualities of self-confident people
1. Self-belief
2. Hard-Working
3. Positive Attitude
4. Commitment
Building self-confidence
The three steps to building self-confidence are as follows:
Step 1: Appreciate achievements and accept failures
Step 2: Have a goal and take steps towards it.
Step 3: Always look at the good side and be Happy.
Positive Thinking
Positive thinking requires a person to look at the good in things, observe, understand and patiently work
towards improving them rather than worrying and/or looking for the bad in things.
Importance of Positive Thinking