Author: China Office of iCVCC
Do you have a clear understanding of your likes, dislikes, dreams, strengths, weaknesses, needs, goals, values, etc.? An accurate self-perception can help you better manage yourself and gain a clearer career orientation. Success begins with efficient and consistent self-management, and effective self-management is the basis for an individual's professional success and life happiness. Self-management is a critical job skill in the workplace, and people with self-management skills know how to make decisions and take actions in different situations. Only by learning to manage ourselves can we utilize our resources and potential and bring them into full play with maximum efficiency. Only then can we adapt to the needs of the workplace and make ourselves a person who is likely to succeed. Those elites who have made great contributions to human society, they do not have any special talent, only one thing is different from ordinary people, that is, they have a strong self-management ability, to a large extent, it is the super self-management ability to achieve their successful life path.
Learning and developing self-management skills is an introspective process that requires honesty and a deep understanding of one's emotional intelligence, self-control, and behavioral style. Successful self-managers share the following characteristics:
Work is very self-control, less interference by external factors; Strong tolerance for setbacks and disappointments; Strong self-care ability; Have a plan and get a sense of accomplishment from completing the plan on time; High emotional intelligence, can understand and control their own emotions, can think in other people's shoes, understand and understand the emotional changes of others. Human resources experts and organizational behaviorists attribute all these factors to strong self-management skills. Although it is not easy for a person to acquire these substances, these self-management traits or skills can be acquired through training and learning.
(A) What is self-management
The so-called self-management refers to the individual's management of themselves, their own goals, thoughts, psychology and behavior, etc., the organization of their own abilities and resources, their own management, restraint and motivation, and finally complete the goal of self-struggle. In the simplest terms: Self-management is the ability to regulate behavior, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious, productive way. Self-management is a science and art of self-cognition, self-organization, self-motivation, self-supervision, self-regulation, self-evaluation, self-awareness, self-exercise and self-reflection, which enables individuals to gradually improve themselves through scientific and purposeful training, so as to achieve self-realization, self-achievement and self-transcendence. It is also an automatic regulation function to fully mobilize their own minds. The science and art of maximizing one's own potential and more effectively exploring and realizing one's own maximum social value and responsibility. Self-management is spontaneous. Spontaneity is when no one asks or forces you to do your own thing consciously and well.
(2) Success requires self-management
Everyone wants to be successful and is exploring the secret of success. But there is a fine line between those who succeed and everyone else. This boundary is not a mark of special circumstances or high intelligence, nor is it simply a difference in higher education or talent, nor does it depend on luck, but on the ability to manage oneself effectively.
In this world everyone is a manager, or at least a self-manager, but self-management is an important and most difficult management. The American contemporary spiritual inspirational writer Jackson Brown once had an interesting analogy: "Without the talent of self-management, it is like an octopus wearing roller skates, watching the movement constantly, but can't figure out whether it is going forward, backward, or in circles." If you're really putting in the effort and you're not seeing a lot of results, then you really need to re-examine your self-management skills.
Success requires effective self-management. There are some very outstanding people around us, they radiate a different light, or they are very outstanding in their studies, or they are very successful in their careers, or they are living a happy life that everyone admires, in short, they are going nowhere in their life, as if they were born to be lucky people. In fact, those who are successful, whether in intelligence or appearance, are not much different from us, in terms of qualifications are also very ordinary, and God does not favor them particularly. Just because they know how to let good self-management habits create good opportunities for them. Going deep into those so-called outstanding people, it is not difficult to find that they do have different characteristics from the average person, their hearts are never bound, almost stubbornly adhere to their ideals, for which they are willing to bear the burden; They have clear career goals and decisive action; They always have a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards life; They have an effective self-discipline life, and no vanity, practical attitude to life; They can adjust their emotions and health in the midst of stress, so they deserve to be blessed with life and stand out from the mediocre.
(3) Content of self-management
How to effectively manage their own life is really difficult, for a person who is about to enter the workplace or just entered the workplace, self-cultivation is the most basic thing. Although self-management is difficult, strengthening oneself to cultivate and do it will make our life less detours. So what aspects of yourself do you need to manage to strengthen your self-management?
1. Learn management
Paul Langeland, UNESCO's Director General for Lifelong Education, said: "The illiterate of the future will no longer be the illiterate, but the illiterate who has not learned how to learn." In the era of knowledge economy, the professional competitiveness of managers will eventually be reflected in learning ability and innovation ability. Learning on the job and innovating in learning will be the basic way of survival for every manager. How to learn? To learn what? How to learn? Different answers and choices to these questions will determine different career achievements and life prospects.
2. Time management
Time can not be missing, time can not be replaced, time can not be stored, time can not be added or subtracted, but time can be managed. Life management is essentially time management, and the scarcity of time reflects the finiteness of life. Effective people are ultimately manifested in time management, in whether they can scientifically use time, manage time, save time, and then create the maximum value of their own career in limited time.
3. Plan management
There is a famous saying in the Book of Rites, The Mean of the Mean: "All things are established, do not be destroyed." This means that no matter what you do, you must have a clear goal, plan and arrangement in advance. Only by clarifying the goal in advance, making arrangements, being prepared and having a detailed plan can we do things well, enhance our consciousness and reduce blindness, so as to reasonably arrange human, material, financial and time, and make work and activities proceed in an orderly manner. Therefore, the formulation of a practical plan is to establish a normal work order, improve the efficiency of the indispensable procedures and measures.
4. Manage your emotions
Many people with outstanding ability and good performance have not been promoted and reused, why? The survey found that it was not because of their quality, but their lack of effective emotional management. Only when a person knows himself, controls his emotions and is self-motivated, understands and recognizes the emotions of others, accepts others and masters the skills of establishing good interpersonal relations can he achieve his own harmony and win-win interpersonal relations.
5. Stress management
In our fast-moving modern society, people are often overwhelmed by the complexity of daily activities, and it is increasingly difficult to find an ideal balance in life. As the pace of life continues to accelerate, we gradually realize the importance of improving the quality of life, and begin to pursue a healthy and balanced life. The skills to manage stress and master psychological adjustment will become one's most important abilities. Stress management will help you find a balance between your career, relationships, family, health, and personal aspirations.
6. Self and career knowledge
Self-awareness means being familiar with your interests, personality, and values so that you can find a satisfying job. There are many types of jobs, and each occupation has different requirements, so you need to understand the basic requirements of each occupation, so that you will not get lost in the process of career selection. Although each occupation has different requirements for abilities, many abilities are common in the workplace. To understand and strive to improve your relevant abilities, you can meet various challenges in the workplace with a full attitude.
7. Career planning
Everyone aspires to success, however, not everyone can achieve it. If you want to succeed in your career, you must establish a clear career goal, use scientific methods, take practical measures, give full play to your expertise, develop your potential, overcome obstacles in career development, avoid life traps, constantly revise the direction of progress, and finally achieve career success. All these need timely and reasonable career planning to guide us.
8. Health management
Physical and mental health is the foundation of other activities, and the exhausted body cannot guarantee his career glory and dream come true. In the workplace full of pressure, we must pay attention to our physical and mental health, with full spirit, high morale and abundant energy to meet professional challenges and create career brilliance.
Through the above eight aspects of management, you will be able to successfully acquire the talent and resources to plan, control and manage your own life and career in order to achieve happiness and career success.
