Employability Skills

Unit – 2 Self-Management Skills

1. What makes you complete work or studies without others cheering you?
(a) Self-confidence
(b) Communication
(c) Self-motivation
(d) Self-esteem
2. Which of the following are types of motivation?
(a) Internal
(b) Intermediate
(c) External
(d) Extensive

A and C both Answer

3. Ravi works hard to get the best student award at the end of year. What type of motivation is this?
(a) Internal
(b) E xternal
(c) Both internal and external
(d) Not any specific type of motivation

4. _________ refers to as ‘self-control’ means that the ability to control one’s emotions, thoughts, and
behavior effectively in different situations. (Ans. Self-Management)
5. Which of the following is one of the self-management skills?
a. Motivating Oneself
b. Setting Goals
c. Work Independently
d. All of the above

6. Asking about honest feedback, gathering personality traits, think about daily interactions are related
to which of the following skills?
1. Responsibility
2. Adaptability
3. Time management
4. Self-awareness
7. When an individual is prioritizing the work, it is considered as __________
(Ans. Time-management)
8. Staying with the current situation with new updated information and preparing yourself for new
challenges is called _________.
a. Responsibility
b. Adaptability
c. Time management
d. Self-awareness
9. _________ can be defined as our emotional, mental, physical and social reaction to any perceived
demands or threats. (Ans. Stress)
10. Stress can be impacted positively also in our life. (True/False)
11. Which of the following is the most effective technique of stress management?
a. Healthy Diet
 b. Exercises and Yoga
c. Positivity
d. Time Management
12. Which of the following technique help you to become more active physically?
a. Exercises and Yoga
b. Sleep
c. Healthy Diet
d. Sleep
13. Which of the following technique provide you with the strength to do your daily work efficiently?
a. Healthy Diet
b. Sleep
c. Holiday with family or friends
d. Completing work on time
14. Which of the following help to recharge your brain and your body to function better?
a. Healthy Diet
b. Sleep
c. Holiday with family or friends
d. Completing work on time
15. Which of the following refresh your routine?
a. Healthy Diet
b. Sleep
c. Holiday with family or friends
d. Completing work on time
16. Becoming self-aware, self-monitoring, and self-correcting, knowing what you do, taking initiative
rather than being told, recognizing own mistakes, not blaming others, and ability to learn
continuously referred to as ____________.
a. Self-Dependent
b. Ego
c. Self-Controlled
d. Emotional Intelligence
17. The ability to understand and identify their own emotions and other emotions as well is known as
emotional intelligence. (True/False)
18. The ability to identify and name our emotions is called ____________
a. Emotional Awareness
b. Harnessing Emotions
c. Managing Emotions
d. All of the
19. The ability to apply emotions to tasks like thinking and problem solving referred to as harnessing
emotions. (True/False)
20. Managing emotions refers to the ability to regulate our own emotions when necessary and help
others to do the same. (True/False)
21. Being emotionally intelligent enhances your chances of failure and an imbalanced life. (True/False)
22. Which of the following technique help you to keep calm?
a. Meditation and Yoga
b. Watching TV and Web Series
c. Playing mobile games
d. All of these
23. The factors that may bring about negative changes in a person suffering from stress are …………..
 a. Threat
b. Peer pressure
c. Financial loss
d. All of these

B. Subjective Questions of Self-Management Skills

1. Describe stress and stress management in your own words.

Ans. Stress is our emotional, mental, physical and social reaction to any perceived demands or threats.
For example, you are too close to the exams but feel unprepared.
Stress Management is about making a plan to be able to cope effectively with daily pressures. You have
to make a suitable plan for your daily life routines so that it would not put hard pressure on you.

2. List your favorite stress management technique and elaborate on why you find it the most
effective for you.( Elaborate any one)
Ans. The stress management techniques are:
● Time Management - One of my favourite stress management technique and I think this is the
most important one. If we are able to manage time properly then there will be no pressure of
pending work on us.

● Physical exercise and fresh air - Doing yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises help in
proper blood circulation and relaxes the body. This will help to become more active?

● Healthy diet - Eating a balanced diet, such as Dal, Roti, vegetables and fruits will give the
strength to do daily work efficiently.

● Positivity - Focusing on negative aspects of life will add more stress. Instead, learn to look at
the good things and stay positive. For example, instead of feeling upset over scoring less in a
test, try to maintain a positive attitude and look at ways to improve the next time.
● Organizing academic life; no delaying - By keeping class notes organised, finishing in
assignments on time, and keeping track of all deadlines, stress can be reduced to a great
extent.

● Sleep - A good night’s sleep for at least 7 hours helps the brain and body get recharged to
function better the next day.

● Holidays with family and friends - Going to a relative’s place, such as your grandparents’ house
or a new place during your summer vacations can help to break from the normal routine and
come back afresh.

3. What is Goal Setting?

Ans. Goal setting is a process which helps a person to decide where he wants to go in life. This will help
them to decide where to put his efforts to achieve that goal. After deciding the goal or aim of
life one can easily go through the process of achieving it.
4. In SMART goals, what does ‘S’ stand for? Explain.
 Ans. In SMART goals ‘S’ stands for Specific goal. A specific and clear goal answers six questions. Who
is involved in the goal? What do I want to do? Where do I start? When do I start and finish? Which
means do I use? Why am I doing this? For Example:
Not a specific goal: “I want to become a doctor.”
Specific goal: “I want to become a doctor by studying MBBS after my school gets over. After getting my
MBBS degree I will make a hospital in my village.”

5. What is the best way to work on long-term goals?

Ans. The best way to work on long-term goals is:
Part-1 Develop a long-term goal
● Ask yourself where you’d like to see yourself in next few years.
● Build a goal from your board ideas.
● Write out a specific goal.
● Separate short and long-term goals.
● Assess your goal to make sure it’s manageable.

Part-2 Achieving your Long-Term Goal

● Commit to one long-term goal at a time.
● Break your goal into sub-goals.
● Set up a timetable for your goal and sub-goals.
● Work on your self-discipline.
● Develop habits that aid in accomplishing your goal.
● Review your progress regularly.
● Identify obstacles you might encounter.
Part-3 Staying Motivated for Long-Term Goals
● Take breaks regularly.
● Try to make your goal fun.
● Celebrate your successes

6. What is time management and how can you manage your time?
Ans. Time management is the ability to plan and control how you spend the hours of your day well
and do all that you want to do.
The steps for effectively managing time are:
Step-1 Organise
• We plan our day-to-day activities.
• We make a timetable that we follow.
• We keep our surroundings and study table clean.
• We put things back where they belong.
• It helps us save time!
Step-2 Prioritise
• We make a to-do list that has all our activities and we rank them in the order of importance. For
example, you may rank doing homework as the most important task. It helps us to get the most
important task done first and also to track what is pending.
Step-3 Control
• We have a control over our activities and time.
• We avoid time wasters like chatting on the phone, surfing gossip sites, etc., and focus on more
important things.
Step-4 Track
 • We identify and note where we have spent our time. This will help us analyze if we have used our
time effectively or not. It also helps us to identify time-wasting activities.

7. How can tracking your time help you?

Ans. Tracking your time helps you gain perspective on your life, so you can determine whether the
way you spend your time is true to your priorities and what’s important to you. By tracking your time
you can
● See how many hours you actually work.
● can separate from the stories you tell yourself.
● Discover what your priorities actually are.
● Time feels richer.
8. What is emotion intelligence? What are the skills required?
Ans. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the
emotions of others. Following are the skills required :
a. Emotional awareness
b. Harnessing emotions
c. Managing emotions
9. What is self-awareness?
Ans. Identifying our strengths and weakness is called self-awareness.
10. What is self-motivation?
Ans. Self-motivation is simply the force within you that drives you to do things. Self-motivation is what
pushes us to achieve our goals, feel happy and improve our quality of life.
11. What is internal self-motivation and external self-motivation?
Ans. Internal self-motivation: It refers to the behavior of a person that is driven by his innate desire to
do something for his own sake that makes him/her happy, healthy and feel good.
External self-motivation: It refers to the behavior of a person that is driven by the desire to
attain some sort of an external reward including respect, recognition and appreciation.
12. What is self-regulation?
Ans. Self-regulation is the ability to understand and manage your reaction to the things happening
around us. It involves controlling reactions to emotions like frustration or excitement, calming
down after something exciting or upsetting happens; refocus attention on a new task.

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