Now that we've taken the journey of self-discovery looking at our personality, our values and our personal mission. Let's look at self-management. These are vital keys to success in the VUCA environment in our careers. Now, what is self management? Self-management is self-control, self-regulation and self-directed learning. Those three combined equals self-management, so let's explore each one individually. Self-control puts you in the driver seat. It makes you, the CEO of your own career. You determine the destination and you determine how you want to get there. In this arena of self-control, it's you being active not passive. Remember, this is very important in the VUCA environment, you have to be the driver. Otherwise, the circumstances take over and we don't want that to happen. So as the CEO of your own career as I said, you decide where you want to go and how you want to get there. Self-regulation is the ability to change your behaviors and actions as you need to, think about that. To change your behaviors and actions as you need to, like changing lanes in traffic. Self-regulation is the ability to modify your behavior and actions in your long-term best interest, not just the short term your long term best interest and importantly consistent with your values and consistent with your mission. That's why we did the foundational work in the previous section. In self-regulation, you are keenly aware of what is happening around you. You've looked out for what is needed and how to best move forward. Once again, you're in the driver's seat. I'm going to keep stressing that, because remember in the traditional career, the company was in the driver's seat. You were a box signing on organizational chart and got moved that the company's whim, but in the VUCA environment you're in charge. Now, self-regulation requires you to be very self aware. So you have to observe your own behavior, evaluate and judge your own behavior and also self-correct when you need to. So think about it. Self-regulation requires that you observe your behavior, you look to see is this working? Or not working? If it's not working, of course correct it. So, it requires a heightened degree of self-awareness and self-observation. Now also key is something called self-directed learning and I like to think of it as Just in Time Learning. Just in Time Learning allows you to grow your skills and competencies at your pace not at the companies pace as in the traditional career environment. Growing your skills and competencies expands your impact and provides for a high level of career agility. Now remember in the old environment in the traditional environment, there was OJT, on the job training. And on the job training was done in small groups, usually at the company location or off site with an instructor and it was quite expensive. In the VUCA world in contrast, we have Just in Time Learning, which is not led by an instructor, it's led by you. You're not in a classroom or in an off site location, because learning is wherever your computer is and it's as you need it in the moment and at little to no cost. And fueling just in time learning is this competency called learning how you learn, meta-cognition. Meta and cognition. Learning how you learn will better prepare you to pursue career choices that align with your values, your personality, your mission as well as your skills, talents and abilities. So there's you, there's meta, which means along with and cognition and that together is megacognition. Notice that play on words? Megacognition where you're powerful in the VUCA environment. In self-directed Just in Time Learning, you become your own professor. Your could put me out of a job. Please don't do that. Also, in self-directed Just in Time Learning, you become your own student. So your in both the role of professor and student, because your teaching yourself to learn and grow and develop new skills and competencies. And also, you decide what you want to learn when you want to learn it. How you want to learn it and the variety of ways that we have available to us. Now there's something that I particularly love and have experienced myself quite recently called stretch work. I love this highway picture, don't you? Stretch work is doing what you don't already know to do, know how to do. Can you say that again? Doing what you don't already know how to do. It's building new competencies. It's expanding your impact and gains you career agility. Now stretch work has become so relevant to me personally, because taking on being a professor with this Coursera project has been stretch work for me. Because even though I've had a long career as a teacher and professor, I've never done it in this kind of format and I've had to do a lot of just in time learning to bring these lessons to you. And frankly, sometimes I wanted to tear my hair out, I thought. Oh, my, God. I feel so incompetent even though I know myself to be a competent person. So stretch work takes us really far outside our comfort zone, but now look, I had the opportunity to interact with all of you. I have new skills and competencies to offer my organization and far more career choices, now that I know how to do this and interact with you. So thanks for this opportunity.