Self management

The statement that developmental mentoring emphasizes self-managed learning is not to say that mentoring in Europe is never... 

In terms of continuous self-managed learning, effective mentoring fosters within the mentee the ability and desire for... 

It encourages continuous self-managed learning, inspiring employees consistently to improve their performance. 

Adopt a dictatorial approach to learning self-managed learning is discouraged. 

If offered only occasionally, do not encourage, continuous and self-managed learning. 

Case study 3.7 illustrates a cross-cultural pilot mentoring scheme set in a Western company located in Borneo. It is interesting to note that this type of mentoring may be both more difficult as well as different to other programs. For instance, due to cultural variations, Malay mentees were not so comfortable with the focus on self-managed learning within developmental mentoring - mentors were expected to be much more proactive than in a European environment. 

An obligatory self-management course for anyone wishing to become a mentee. 

The success of their attempts to encourage self-managed learning in the mentees might be somewhat diminished. 

What are your views on self-managed learning ... 

Provide education on self-management or parent education on asthma management and controlling environmental factors that make asthma worse (e.g., allergens and irritants). 

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Medical guidelines for the management of diabetes mellitus The AACE system of intensive diabetes self-management—2002 update. Endocr Pract 2002 8(suppl l) 40-82. 

Create educational information for patients about common skin disorders, including appropriate self-management, available drug treatment options, and anticipated therapeutic responses. 

This team must be skilled in handling the complex origin of disability. Risk factors for the disease to become chronic are often of a psychosocial and not a physical nature. Primary targets of treatment should be physical fitness and the self-management of problems by the patient. Awareness of the psychosocial factors, which can disturb occupational reintegration, should be developed. Rehabilitation is based on measures to modify patient s beliefs and fitness. The prescribed treatment should aim to relieve pain, correct disability, prevent relapses, inform and educate the patient. 

Hinshaw, S.P. and Melnick, S. (1992). Self-management therapies and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Reinforced self-evaluation and anger control interventions. Behav Modif 16 255-273. 

Most books and courses on self-development are to do with personal skills (usually interpersonal skills) and coping skills (e.g. stress and time management), while self-management tends to be primarily about managing one s external behaviour without necessarily exploring its well-springs. 

Schelling, T. C. (1978) Egonomics, or the art of self-management, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 68,290-4. 

Self-Management of Asthma, edited by H. Kotses and A. Harver... 

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