Self-management

A core life skill, highlighted first in its Individual Dimension towards personal empowerment, self-management, or both self-managing and being self-managed, is the individual ability to regulate and monitor one’s behaviours, emotions, feelings and impulses. Thus, it constitutes a broad category of related skills that includes self-control, self-efficacy and selfawareness, as well as positive attitude, reliability, self-presentation and is strongly linked with the core life skill of resilience. These have wide applicability in all domains of life, from personal relationships at home to peer-relationships at school, and have been identified as common employability skills applicable to a range of jobs (Blades et al., 2012).