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Self-managed learning is a way that individuals organise themselves and find different ways in learning things whether in the community or at work. It is also about setting out the goals for the learning by evaluating the purpose for learning and ways to achieve those goals.
People always learn new things, for example, the culture of different people, behaviour, personality, perceptions and so on. People can learn things from college, through friends, personal and other people’s experience, books to mention but few.
It is therefore important to manage one’s learning as it has huge impacts in one’s life. Some of the positive impacts include:
Self-managed learning gives people the opportunity to come up with their own strategy in learning. For instance, I have a goal to get a distinction on my assignment, so my strategy will be to research, reference and write well my work and submit it on time to achieve my goal.
Self managed learning motivate people make their own training plan as well as motivate others to participate.
Self - managed learning ensures people are effective and efficient in their work.
Being in a 21 century where technology is advancing, people need to manage themselves to learn new things to keep up with advanced technology which will be beneficial in organisation where people work (Nordstrom, 1996-2014).

There are different approaches to self-managed learning:
• Research
Individual can learn through research given by the university, college or workplace.

Research gives people the knowledge and information they need. However, people may not have time to spend researching and some people do not like reading and this may put them off.
• Seminars and conferences

Advantages of seminars and conferences

- People can learn through the experience they acquired from seminars and conferences and then use the experience