Dimensions of youth self-leadership: measuring skills, behaviours and cognitions

ISSN 1691-3078 print. ISSN 2255-9930 onlineFast changing environment indicates the increased need of flexibility, innovativeness and creativity. Managerial competence plays a critical role developing such organizational features. Self-leadership, as a concept of influencing yourself to achieve your objectives, is the first step to great leadership necessary for turning organization into successful. Self-leadership gets essential especially among young people, considering them as future leaders. Dimensions of youth self-leadership can be a contributing factor to successful management of future organizations. Though problem is stated as a question: what is self-leadership skills mastery level among young people. The aim of the paper is to measure dimensions of youth self-leadership identifying the most applied strategies. Analysis of scientific literature, questionnaire are used for research. Research revealed that young people (students) tend to use those strategies which don‘t require working with themselves and make more positive impact on them: visualizing successful performance, setting their goals and self-observation are more likely acceptable strategies than selfpunishment, self-cueing, self-talk and evaluating their own beliefs and assumptions. Likewise, female students are more likely to use self-leadership strategies than maleEkonomikos ir vadybos fakultetasMarketingo katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta