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Personal Leadership and
Self-Management
EUNICE G. PARCO, CFSM, MBA

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What is Self Leadership?
Self-leadership, is having a developed sense of who
you are, what you can do, where you are going
coupled with the ability to influence your
communication, emotions and behavior on the way to
getting there (Bryant, Kazan 2012). A more succinct
definitions is:
“Self-leadership is the process by which you influence
yourself to achieve your objectives.”

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What is Self Leadership?
• Self leadership equates to the leadership competencies of Self Observation
and Self Management but most importantly self-leadership impacts all aspect
of your life, your health, your career and your relationships. Self-leaders are
self-motivated to take purposeful action and therefore make better leaders,
entrepreneurs, and team members.
• Self-leadership should be the foundation of any Leadership Development or
Executive Coaching Program because self-leadership is a solution for a
volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous world.

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Self Leadership is ‘Inside-Out’ Leadership
Self-leaders are constantly developing, Self-awareness, Self-
confidence and Self-efficacy (self-belief).
 Self-awareness is about knowing your intentions and values, as
well as knowing what can ‘push your buttons’ and derail you.
 Self-confidence comes from knowing your strengths and abilities.
As we take actions and develop skills, we become more confident.
 Self-efficacy is the belief that whatever comes our way, we can
handle it. We can take the feedback, accept, adjust and advance.
With self-efficacy we can be more creative and innovative.

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• The first skill of self leadership is to STOP and STEP BACK from the
things that trigger us to react; because when we react we are being controlled
by the trigger. The second skill is to consider our INTENTION. Intention is
what is important to us, our values and what we are trying to achieve. By
being intentional we can start to live a life of choice.
• Intention precedes any purposeful action (behavior)- rather than a reaction.
Actions have effects which the self-leader evaluates via feedback.
• Influence is the result of purposeful action. We must positively influence
ourselves and the world around us if we are to make a change.
• Impact is how intention and influence is measured in the world.

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Self Leadership for Leadership Development
Self leadership should be at the foundation of any
leadership development initiative, and it should be reviewed at
each career progression. Intention and identity will change with
advancement and the need to effectively influence and impact
will increase dramatically.
Self leadership is a journey, and the more self-
leadership we attain the more successful we become, and the
more successful we become, the more self-leadership we need.”
Responsibility and Accountability are two things often
lacking in the workplace. Self-leadership develops autonomy
(ownership of choice) which leads to greater responsibility and
accountability.

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Self-Management
“ The man who can not manage themselves is not able to lead others.”
-W. Penn
“Only one who has learned to control himself, can easily learn to manage the state.”
-Confucius

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What is Self-Management?
1) Self-management means different things in different fields.
In business, education, and psychology, self- management refers to methods,
skills, and strategies by which individuals can effectively direct their own
activities toward the achievement of objectives, and includes goal setting,
decision making, focusing, planning, scheduling, task tracking, self-
evaluation, self-intervention, self-development, etc.
Self-management also known as executive processes (in the
context of the processes of execution).

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Self-management may also refer to:
• Workers' self-management - a form of workplace decision-making in
which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like
customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labor
etc.) instead of the traditional supervisor telling workers what to do, how
to do it and where to do it.
• Self-management means taking as much control as you can of your
health care and health behaviors. Like people who run a business or take
care of a family, self-managers need to be organized. They need a set of
useful skill sand habits, and they need support.

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Four basic strategies to self-management
1. Goal Setting
Most people do better with self-management if they have positive goals to
motivate them, ways they want their lives and health to improve.
2. Action Planning.
• Breaking large goals into achievable chunks that we feel confident about
is a great strategy for success. Action planning identifies small, specific
steps to ward larger goals, and strategies to succeed at those steps. The key
is to make the plans specific - what, when, where, with whom, how often.

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3.Tracking Changes. If you’re trying to make a change in your life, how will you
know when you have done it? We tend to forget what we have done or how we
have changed over time. How do we remember the way things used to be? It helps
to keep a record of your activities. These records (or logs) will help you see what’s
working and what’s getting in your way.
4.Problem-Solving. Life has a way of interfering with self- management. Usually
people encounter some barriers they didn't expect when they made their plans.

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Self-Management Techniques
Some of the practical techniques you can adapt are:
• learn to cope with stress (see a counselor for assistance if needed);
• develop your self esteem and personal confidence;
• develop effective strategies to cope with conflicts;
• develop a positive attitude to study;
• be patient – learning and academic skills develop gradually;
• reappraise your situation regularly and make the adjustments required to succeed;
• learn from feedback to prevent repeating your mistakes;
• maintain a healthy lifestyle;
• reward yourself with time off from study (in moderation!; and
• learn to manage your time better.

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12 Rules for Self-Leadership
Management is not just for managers, just as leadership is not just for leaders
We all manage, and we all lead; these are not actions reserved for
only those people who happen to hold these “positions” in a company.
Consider another way, we can all learn to be more self-governing
through the disciplines of great management and great leadership;
these are concepts that can give us wonderful tenets to live and work
by.

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1.Live by your values, whatever they are. You confuse people when you
don’t, because they can’t predict how you’ll behave.
2.Speak up! No one can “hear” what you’re thinking without you be willing
to stand up for it. Mind-reading is something most people can’t do.
3.Honor your own good word, and keep the promises you make. If not,
people eventually stop believing most of what you say, and your words will
no longer work for you.
4.When you ask for more responsibility, expect to be held fully accountable.
This is what seizing ownership of something is all about; it’s usually an all
or nothing kind of thing, and so you’ve got to treat it that way.

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5.Don’t expect people to trust you if you aren’t willing to be trustworthy
for them first and foremost. Trust is an outcome of fulfilled expectations.
6.Be more productive by creating good habits and rejecting bad ones. Good
habits corral your energies into a momentum-building rhythm for you; bad
habits sap your energies and drain you.
7.Have a good work ethic, for it seems to be getting rare today. Curious, for
those “old-fashioned” values like dependability, timeliness, professionalism
and diligence are prized more than ever before. Be action-oriented. Seek to
make things work. Be willing to do what it takes.

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8.Be interesting. Read voraciously, and listen to learn, then teach and share
everything you know. No one owes you their attention; you have to earn it
and keep attracting it.
9.Be nice. Be courteous, polite and respectful. Be considerate. Manners
still count for an awful lot in life, and thank goodness they do.
10.Be self-disciplined. That’s what adults are supposed to “grow up” to be.
11. Don’t be a victim or a martyr. You always have a
• choice, so don’t shy from it: Choose and choose without regret. Look
forward and be enthusiastic.
12.Keep healthy and take care of yourself. Exercise your mind, body and
spirit so you can be someone people count on, and so you can live
expansively and with abundance.

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Thank you 