Transcript The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen Covey
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Principle-center approach for solving
personal and professional problems
Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway
for living with fairness, integrity,
honesty and human dignity
Principles that give us the security to
adapt to change and the wisdom and
power to take advantage of the
opportunities that change creates
Habit 1 “be Proactive”
Freedom
Stimulus
to
• It means more than merely
taking initiative. It means as
Choose
human beings, we are
responsible for our own lives.
Our behavior is a function of
our decisions, not our
Self
conditions. We can
Awareness
subordinate feelings to
values. We have the initiative Imagination
and the responsibility to
make things happen.
Response
Independent
Will
Conscience
Proactive Model
Habit 2 “begin witH tHe
end in Mind”Security
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To begin with the end in mind means to
start with a clear understanding of your
destination. It means to know where
you’re going so that you better
understand where you are now and so
that the steps you take are always in
the right direction.
Center
Guidance
Wisdom
Power
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Habit 3 “Put First Things
First”
Organize and execute around
priorities. This phrase represents
the evolution of three generations
of time management and how to
best do it is the focus of a wide
variety of approaches and
materials.
It focuses on setting goals –
specific long-, intermediate-, and
short term targets which time and
energy would be directed in
harmony and values.
Rather than focusing on things and
time, the focus is preserving and
enhancing relationships and on
accomplishing results.
Habit 4 “tHink win/win”
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Win/Win is a frame of mind and
heart that constantly seeks mutual
benefit in all human interactions.
Win/Win means means that
agreements or solutions are
mutually beneficial, mutually
satisfying.
With a Win/Win solution, all parties
feel good about the decision and
feel committed to the action plan.
Win/Win sees life as a cooperative,
not a competitive arena.
It’s not your way or my way; it’s a
better way, a higher way.
Habit 5 “Seek FirSt to UnderStand
tHen to be UnderStood”
• Seek first to understand
involves a very deep shift in
paradigm. We typically seek
first to be understood. Most
people do not listen with the
intent to understand, they
listen with the intent to reply.
They’re either speaking or
preparing to speak. They are
filtering everything through
their own paradigms, reading
their autobiography into other
people’s lives
Habit 6 “Synergize”
• What is Synergy? Simply
defined, it means that the
whole is greater than the
sum of its parts. It means
the relationship which the
parts have to each other is
a part in and of itself. It is
not only a part, but the
most catalytic, the most
empowering, the most
unifying and the most
exciting part.
Habit 7 “SHarPen tHe Saw”
• Habit 7 is personal PC
(Power Capacity) It’s
preserving and enhancing
the greatest asset you have
– you!
• It’s renewing the four
dimensions of your naturephysical, spiritual, mental
and social/emotional.