How to Use self-management in a Sentence

self-management

noun
  • That balance of care, respect and self-management offers a useful model.
    Athena Aktipis, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This includes hard skills – how to best leverage the latest tech tools – but also soft skills like mindfulness, self-management, and resilience.
    Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The program helps students build new academic habits and self-management skills to navigate the college transition and to support long-term academic success.
    Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Popular Science, 24 June 2026
  • Zhao and Dunn’s positive emotion strategy fits best into self-management, which is your ability to regulate your emotions and act on them in a way that will lead to constructive outcomes.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • This aligns with the EI skill of self-management, where experts like Travis Bradberry advocate actively processing emotions.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • This event highlights the power of emotional intelligence, particularly self-management, in high-stakes situations.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The participants also underwent cognitive tests for executive function (that is, self-management) and overall cognitive ability, which includes things like memory, attention, language, and executive function.
    New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Professionals who master distributed collaboration, asynchronous communication, and self-management often discover that these skills translate directly to running their own businesses.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Boundary-setting signals self-management, prioritization, and professional maturity.
    Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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