Self - Management Skills

Skills that everyone needs to excel in the work place and to get along with co-workers are Self Management Skills. These skills include decision-making, learned willingness, self-assessment, self-discipline, self-marking, and stress resistance. (Cologne, 2000). These skills are known as "Soft Skills" (Cologne, 2000) we know and use these skills every day they are also referred to as social skills. "The skills include personality traits like emotional maturity, eagerness to learn, and willingness to share and embrace new ideas." (Cologne, 2000)

Looking at the Self-Management skills these are skills that we use everyday, at home and at work. Decision-making is a process that everyone does in the work place and with his or her home life. It is a process that incorporates a sequence of activities that includes gathering, interpreting and exchanging information then creating and identifying a course of action. (Leigh, 2004, pg 127) Learned Willingness, everyone must have the willingness to learn about new skills and absorb new ideas that could be proposed by other team members. Learned Willingness can also be thought as the ability to embrace new ideas. Self-assessment is something that you do to assess your own performance.

Self-discipline is considered to be a work ethic, are you someone that needs to be told what and how to do something, or can you manage your own time. This is a personal trait. Self-marketing is how you present your ideas to the group. Stress Resistance is your ability to meet deadlines and handle stress at work.