The abilities to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations.
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).
The ability to express one’s emotions appropriately; deal with personally upsetting situations in healthy and effective ways; identify sources of help and form a self-support system; set goals (personal, academic and career) and work towards them in an organised manner.
View Self Management in Indian Social and Emotional Learning Framework (ISELF)
A person who manages himself effectively is able to manage his own emotions, exercise self-discipline and display strong goal-setting and organizational skills.
View Self-Management in Singapore Frameworks for 21CC and Student Outcomes
Self-Management is the ability to regulate our emotions, thoughts and behaviours effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, delaying gratification, keeping ourselves otivated and setting and working towards personal, academic and career goals. This skill also includes managing our time effectively in response to current or changing circumstances.
Self-Management helps in all domains of life and can be an important determinant of employment and life success and overall well-being.
Self-Management in Action The person will be able to: