Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Besides using the various techniques, such as SWOT analysis and PQI, ( I will describe it the next post) use the seven habits of highly effective people to improve your personality type. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a self-help book written by Stephen R.
Covey. Stephen Covey is an internationally respected teacher, chairman, and founder of Covey Leadership Center. Adhere to the following seven habits of highly effective people to improve your personality:
1)Be proactive: Covey emphasizes that you can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to different situations. When you are reactive, you blame other people and circumstances for obstacles or problems. Being proactive, you take the responsibility for every aspect of your life. Then, you take actions to solve various problems.
2)Begin with the end in mind: Covey emphasizes on setting long-term goals. He recommends creating a vision of one’s own life. He sees visualization as an important tool to develop a vision. In addition, Covey has mentioned about organizational vision statements. According to him, the organizational vision statements can be more effective, if developed and supported by all members of an organization.
3)Put first things first: Covey describes a framework for prioritizing work aimed at short term goals, at the cost of tasks that appear not to be urgent, but are, in fact, very important.
4)Think win/win: Covey describes that win/win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. It means that agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying. Win/win is a belief in the “Third Alternative”. It’s not your way or my way, it’s a better way. In relationships and businesses, effectiveness is largely achieved through the cooperative efforts of two or more people. Win/win is based on the paradigm that there is plenty for everybody, that one person’s success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others. Win/win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena.
5)Seek first to understand, then to be understood: Covey describes that communication is the most important skill in life. You spend most of your life communicating. Consider that you have spent years learning how to read and write and years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really and deeply understand another human being from that individuals’ own frame of reference? In addition, Covey mentions that giving out advice without understanding a person and their situation might result in rejection of that advice.
6)Synergize: Covey describes that synergy is the essence of principle-centered leadership. It catalyses, unifies, and unleashes the greatest power within people. It describes the way of working in teams, applies effective problem solving, applies collaborative decision making, values differences, builds on divergent strengths, leverages creative collaboration, and embraces and leverages innovation.
7)Sharpen the saw: Covey describes that this habit makes all the other habits possible. It is preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have, that is, “You”. It focuses on balanced self-satisfaction. It is the renewal of the four dimension of your nature, physical, spiritual, mental, and social/emotional. Without this discipline, the body becomes weak, the mind becomes mechanical, the emotions become raw, the spirit becomes insensitive, and the person becomes selfish.
These seven habits are the habits of effectiveness. Because they are based on principles, they bring the maximum long-term beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person’s character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual can effectively solve problems, maximize opportunities, and continually learn and integrate other principles in an upward spiral of growth. The seven habits of highly effective people provide a holistic, integrated approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Taken together, these seven habits cultivate personal character, which is the foundation of effectiveness.
Besides using the various techniques, such as SWOT analysis and PQI, ( I will describe it the next post) use the seven habits of highly effective people to improve your personality type. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a self-help book written by Stephen R.
Covey. Stephen Covey is an internationally respected teacher, chairman, and founder of Covey Leadership Center. Adhere to the following seven habits of highly effective people to improve your personality:
1)Be proactive: Covey emphasizes that you can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to different situations. When you are reactive, you blame other people and circumstances for obstacles or problems. Being proactive, you take the responsibility for every aspect of your life. Then, you take actions to solve various problems.
2)Begin with the end in mind: Covey emphasizes on setting long-term goals. He recommends creating a vision of one’s own life. He sees visualization as an important tool to develop a vision. In addition, Covey has mentioned about organizational vision statements. According to him, the organizational vision statements can be more effective, if developed and supported by all members of an organization.
3)Put first things first: Covey describes a framework for prioritizing work aimed at short term goals, at the cost of tasks that appear not to be urgent, but are, in fact, very important.
4)Think win/win: Covey describes that win/win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. It means that agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying. Win/win is a belief in the “Third Alternative”. It’s not your way or my way, it’s a better way. In relationships and businesses, effectiveness is largely achieved through the cooperative efforts of two or more people. Win/win is based on the paradigm that there is plenty for everybody, that one person’s success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others. Win/win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena.
5)Seek first to understand, then to be understood: Covey describes that communication is the most important skill in life. You spend most of your life communicating. Consider that you have spent years learning how to read and write and years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really and deeply understand another human being from that individuals’ own frame of reference? In addition, Covey mentions that giving out advice without understanding a person and their situation might result in rejection of that advice.
6)Synergize: Covey describes that synergy is the essence of principle-centered leadership. It catalyses, unifies, and unleashes the greatest power within people. It describes the way of working in teams, applies effective problem solving, applies collaborative decision making, values differences, builds on divergent strengths, leverages creative collaboration, and embraces and leverages innovation.
7)Sharpen the saw: Covey describes that this habit makes all the other habits possible. It is preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have, that is, “You”. It focuses on balanced self-satisfaction. It is the renewal of the four dimension of your nature, physical, spiritual, mental, and social/emotional. Without this discipline, the body becomes weak, the mind becomes mechanical, the emotions become raw, the spirit becomes insensitive, and the person becomes selfish.
These seven habits are the habits of effectiveness. Because they are based on principles, they bring the maximum long-term beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person’s character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual can effectively solve problems, maximize opportunities, and continually learn and integrate other principles in an upward spiral of growth. The seven habits of highly effective people provide a holistic, integrated approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Taken together, these seven habits cultivate personal character, which is the foundation of effectiveness.
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