Self-

management
Skills
INTRODUCTION
Self-awareness:
Basics of
Self-management
Responsibility:

Time
Management:

Adaptability:
 Session 1: Stress Management

● Stress can be defined as our

● Stress and emotional, mental, physical and social
Stress reaction to any perceived demands or
Management
threats.
● These demands or threats are called
stressors. Stressors are the reason
for stress.
 Stress Management

● Managing stress is about making

a plan to be able to cope effectively ● have a
with daily pressures. The ultimate joyful
goal is to strike a balance between life.
life, work, relationships, relaxation
and fun
 Stress Management

● A: Adversity or the stressful

● focus
event and
● B: Beliefs or the way you complete
respond to the event tasks on
time
● C: Consequences or actions
and outcomes of the event
 Three Steps to Manage Stress

Step 1: Be aware that you are

stressed
Step 2: Identify what is causing you
stress
Step 3: Apply stress management
methods
 Management Techniques
1.Time
4.Positivity:
management:
2.Physical 5.Organising academic
exercise and life; no delaying:
fresh air: 6.Sleep
3.Healthy 7.Holidays with family
diet: and friends:
 s

1. becoming self-aware,
self-monitoring and self-correcting.
2. knowing what you need to do.
i l i t y t o 3. taking the initiative rather than
A b
being told what to do.
Work
n d e n t l 4. recognising your mistakes and not
Indepe blaming others
y
5. having the ability and the will to
learn continuously.
 s

Emotional intelligence is the

n a l
Em o t i o ability to identify and manage
i ge n c e
Inte l l one’s own emotions, as well as
the emotions of others
 Emotional Intelligence 3 SKILLS

Emotional Harnessing Managing

awareness emotions: emotions:
the ability to
the ability to regulate one’s own
the ability to harness and
identify and apply emotions to emotions when
name one’s own tasks like necessary and help
emotions. thinking and
problem solving others to do the
same
 Some steps to manage emotional
intelligence are as given below.

Understand Rationalise Practise:

your emotions
Observe your Do not take
Do meditation
behaviour and decisions
and yoga to
note the things abruptly; be
keep yourself
you need to rational in your
calm.
work on. thinking
 Session 2: Self-awareness—
Strength and Weakness Analysis
self-aware means that you can identify your
strengths and weaknesses. Self-awareness,
therefore, will help you in converting your weakness
into strength and strength into an exceptional
talent.
 Session 2: Self-awareness—
Strength and Weakness Analysis
Being self aware actually means knowing your inner
strengths, hidden talents, skills and even
weaknesses
 02
Strength and
Weakness
Analysis
 Techniques for Identifying your
Strengths and WeaknessesS
Finding Strengths (or abilities)
• Think of anything that you are always successful at.
• Think about what others like in you.
• Take out time and think about what you do well
 Techniques for Identifying your
Strengths and WeaknessesS
Finding Weaknesses
• Point out the areas where you struggle and the things you find
difficult to do.
• Look at the feedback others usually give you
 Techniques for Identifying your
Strengths and WeaknessesS
Finding Weaknesses
• Be open to feedback and accept your weaknesses without
feeling low about it. Take it as an area of improvement. You can
find your strengths and weaknesses once you find answers to the
questions given here.
• H ow am I different from others? • What do I do better
than others?
 Techniques for Identifying your
Strengths and WeaknessesS
Finding Weaknesses
• What do other people admire in me?
• What makes me stand out?
• Where do I worry and struggles?
• Where, how and why do others perform better than me?
• What advice for improvement do I often receive from others?
 Difference between Interests and
Abilities (Strengths)
Interests Abilities
Things that you like to do in your An acquired or natural capacity
free time that make you happy.
Things you are curious about or Enable you to perform a
would do even if no one asked particular job or task with
you to do it. considerable proficiency.
Things you want to learn or
would like to do in the future.
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Self-
motivation
 Self-motivation

Self -motivation is simply the force within you that drives you to do
things. Self -motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel
happy and improve our quality of life.
 Types of Motivation

● Internal
● External
Motivation
Motivation
(Love)
We do things
(Reward)
because they We do things
make us happy, because they
healthy and feel give us respect,
good recognition and
appreciation.
Qualities of Self-motivated People
 Building
Set and focus on your goals
Self-motivation
Define the goals you
want to achieve and
focus all your energy to
nd out your strengths achieve your goal

dentify your likes and

dislikes.understand what Develop a plan to achieve your
makes you happy
goals Plan and set timelines to
achieve your goals, Plan a list
Stay loyal to your goals of activities that you will do to
Work towards achieving your goal, achieve each goal.
even when you are facing difficult
time
 Session 4:
Self-regulation
Goal Setting
 Goals and Setting
SMART Goals
Goal
setting
Goals
:It
is all about finding
:They are a set of and listing your goals
dreams with a and then planning on
deadline to get them how to achieve them.
 SMART stands for:

Specific:
Measureable:
How to Set Achievable :
Goals? Realistic:
Time bound:
 Specific

Specific ● Specific goal: “I would learn to speak

English fluently by joining coaching
Who is involved in the classes after my school everyday, and in
goal? six months I will take part in the
What do I want to do? inter-school debate competition.”
Where do I start?
When do I start and
finish?
Which means do I use?
Why am I doing this?
 Measureable
● A measureable goal answers the
questions
● “ H ow much?”,
● “ H ow many?” and
● “ H ow do I know that I have achieved
results?”
 Achievable
● Breaking down big goals into smaller parts will make the goal
achievable
 Realistic
● A realistic goal would be something
that we want to achieve and can work
towards.
 • Time bound:
● A SMART goal should have a
timeframe by when the goal needs to be
achieved. This encourages us to take
actions to completely fulfill the goals
Self-Regulation—
Time
Management
 s

Time Time management is the ability

e m en t
Manag to plan and control how you
and Its spend the hours of your day well
r t a n c e
Impo and do all that you want to do.
 Time management is the thinking skill
that helps you to
● complete tasks on time.
● make a daily timetable.
● make a good guess at how long it
Time management will take you to do something.
is the thinking skill ● submit homework and assignments
that helps you to on time.
● not waste time during the day.
 Four Steps for Effective Time Management

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

.Pritortise • We
Organise • make a to-do list that Control • Track •
We plan our has all our activities We have a control We identify and note
dayto-day activities. • and we rank them in over our activities and where we have spent
the order of time. our time. This will
We make a importance • We avoid time help us analyse if we
timetable that we wasters like chatting have used our time
follow. It helps us to get the on the phone, surfing effectively or not. It
We put things back most important task gossip sites, etc., and also helps us to
where they belong done first and also to focus on more identify time-wasting
It helps us save time! track what is pending important things. activities
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Avoid delay or postponing any

planned activity
r •Organise your room and school
T i p s f o
t i ci ng desk
P r a c
e c t i v e •Develop a ‘NO DISTURBANCE
E ff
Time ZONE’, where you can sit and
e m en t complete important tasks
Manag
•Use waiting time productively
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•Prepare a ‘To-do’ list

r • Prioritise
T i p s f o
t i ci ng •Replace useless activities with
P r a c
e c t i v e productive activities
E ff
Time
e m en t
Manag