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Hone self-management skills

Hone self-management skills

From the course: Developing Adaptable Employees

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Hone self-management skills

- Our self-management skills are those skills that often determine the difference between success, and well, less than success in adaptive situations. Self- management skills are those transferrable skills that we point at ourselves. They're often called traits but that can be a little misleading. Traits makes it sound like they're unchangeable, things that are simply facts about ourselves, like personality traits. But self-management skills can be developed and honed just like any other skill. Now, we all know the model of a human being with virtually no self-management skills. It's called a newborn baby. We come into this world with zero ability to manage ourselves. We can't do much of anything without help from others. And at the other end of the spectrum, imagine an adult who is perfect at self-management, someone who's always on time, never loses they're temper, unless they make a conscious decision to, always does what they commit to, accomplishes every task in the time they've…

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