Know thyself. to lead others, you must first lead yourself. Self-management starts with self-discovery and self-discovery is an outcome of in-depth self-assessment.

1. SELF-MANAGEMENT
(LEADING SELF)
Dr Aloni Alali
MBBS. MSc Hlth Mgt. FWACP.

2. Expected learning outcomes
• At the end of this course, you should be able to;
• Find out who you are
• Understand your life goals
• Craft your life’s vision and your personal mission statement
• Acquire skills to manage self

4. INTRODUCTION
• Self-management starts with self-
discovery and self-discovery is an
outcome of in-depth self-
assessment. Self-discovery is the
act or process of gaining
knowledge or understanding of
your ability, character and feelings.
• Life is an endless process of self-
discovery

5. INTRODUCTION
• Self-awareness is about learning to better understand why you feel
what you feel and why you behave in a particular way. Once you
begin to understand this concept you then have the opportunity and
freedom to change things about yourself enabling you to create a life
that you want. It’s almost impossible to change and become self-
accepting if you are unsure as to who you are. Having clarity about
who you are and what you want can be empowering, giving you the
confidence to make changes.

6. UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF
Understanding yourself begins with asking yourself some questions and being very thoughtful and
honest with your answers.

7. UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF
• What is my deepest desire?
• This is not what I have a general or passing interest in, but rather a deep
yearning or aspiration to do. What is the thing I want most out of life?
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• What am I truly passionate about?
• What do I really care about?
• What gifts or abilities do I enjoy using?
• What is the thing I simply must do?
• What energizes me?
• What makes me forget to eat?

8. UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF
• What are your core values?
• What can you accept and what can you not compromise?
• What ideas are present in my heart and thoughts?
• What recurring dreams do I have for my life?
• What ideas, never leave me?
• What is my vision for my life?

9. UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF
• What do I constantly imagine myself doing?
• What do I dream about becoming?
• What do I want to do for humanity?
• What impact will I want to have on my community?
• What will I like to be remembered for?
• What problem will I like to solve?
• What will bring me the greatest fulfilment?
• What would I do if I knew I couldn’t fail?
Summarize the answers to the above questions in a statement: your mission
statement.

10. The STEPP (Talent, Experience, Passion,
Personality and Skill) APPROACH
• This talks about your Talent, Experience, Passion, Personality and Skill. The
highest achievers are those that have discovered how all of these align and
deploy all in their daily work.
• Talent refers to abilities you were born with. Your natural aptitude or skill.
• Experiences refer to records of our lives. They could be either good or bad
and contribute a great deal to what we become.
• Passion refers to a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or a compelling
desire for someone or something. It reflects in what you like to see
changed (cause), who you like to help (people). What you like to do (role).

11. The STEPP (Talent, Experience, Passion,
Personality and Skill) APPROACH
• Personality refers to the characteristic sets of behaviours, cognitions,
and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and
environmental factors. It is the outcome of the interactions of your
temperament with people, places and projects over a period of time.
• Temperament refers to a person’s nature, behavioural traits inherited
from parents and grandparents.

12. TEMPERAMENTS

13. Peer Challenge
• Think about describing yourself to another person without
mentioning anything about the external things that are in your life,
your friends, family, studying etc. Concentrate only on yourself, how
you feel and behave, perhaps recognising some of your strengths and
weaknesses.
• Did you manage to explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours?
• Motivation, management, communications, relationships -focused on
yourself or others - area lot more effective when you understand
yourself, and the people you seek to motivator manage or develop or
help.

14. Does what people say about you matter?
"If one person calls you a horse, ignore
them. If 3 people call you a horse, look
in the mirror. If 5 people call you a
horse, buy a saddle. “

15. The Johari window element
•Public: what you know about yourself and are willing to share with
others – e.g. how you introduce yourself, what’s on your CV
•Blind: what others know or observe about you that you do not know
about yourself – aspects of behaviour and body language
•Private: what you know about yourself and chose not to share –
something that you fear may influence others opinion of you
•Unknown– either you or others know about you – yet –your potential
The quadrants expand or shrink in relation to each other as you gain
more knowledge about yourself through experience, observation,
feedback from others, communication, self-reflection, and so on.

16. The Johari window element
• Recognise and Dismiss useless feedback.
• There's real feedback, and then there's the slop that's merely a
reflection of the speaker's dysfunction. Fortunately, you can tell these
things apart because they feel very different
• –Need also to believe what you think about yourself?

17. Personal SWOT Analysis
• Consider your assets and liabilities
• Consolidate everything you’ve heard about leadership and
management and reflect on the strengths that you have that you can
harness to make you a good leader/manager and identify weaknesses
that you may want to work onto become the ideal leader/manager
that you want to be

18. Crafting your life’s vision and your personal
mission statement
• Crafting a personal mission statement is an excellent way of
generating a framework of what you want out of life and discovering
why your goals are important to you. This framework will ultimately
serve as a guideline for your decisions and going over them every
now and then will help you stay on track.
• A personal mission statement is a declaration of an individual’s
purpose and path in life, emphasizing what is truly important to him
or her. It lays out your core values, your expectations. Your pledge to
other people and your measurement of success.

19. Step 1:
• What are the qualities that you admire in others? Is it their character,
their achievements or their personalities? Put down the
characteristics you most admire in people that you respect.
Step 2:
• What are your core values? If things were ideal, what kind of person
would you love to be; Your ideal self? Usually, people have similar
values as the people they most admire.

20. Step 3:
• What do you want your legacy to be? Write down how you would
want to be remembered in all your roles.
Step 4:
• What are your talents and capabilities? Make a list of all your gifts
and talents, no matter how insignificant. Then pick out the major
ones to focus on.

21. Step 5:
• What are your goals? What would you want to achieve in your life?
Your goals must be SMART; specific, measurable, achievable, relevant
and timebound.
Step 6:
Now condense all the above to a simple statement consisting of the
qualities you would love to be remembered for, your core values,
talents and goals.

22. Step 7:
• Refine what you have written. This can be improved upon over time
to come up with your unique mission statement that ia a reflection of
your core values and life’s purpose.

24. Assignment
1. Write out your personal mission statement (Not more than 30
words)
2. Write down five of your core values