SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

- by Stephen Covey

Presented By: Riddhi Parekh 13MBA046

Submitted to : Ms.Reshma Sable Ms.Krima Patel

Flow of presentation

• About Book

• About Author

• Introduction

• Seven Habits

• Conclusion

About Book

• Author: Stephen R. W. Covey

• Published in,• over 20 Countries• 34 Languages

• Over 15 million copies sold

• In 2002, Forbes named it as one of the top 10 most influential management books ever.

About Author• Born: October 24, 1932 at Salt Lake City, Utah

• Holds MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University

• Occupation: Author, professional speaker, consultant, management-expert

• The site is a mash up of online courses, goal management and social networking.

• Is cofounder and vice chairman of Franklin Covey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries.

• Its mission is to empower people and organizations to increase their performance capability through understanding and living principle-centered leadership.

• He is also founder of The Institute for Principle Centered Leadership, a non-profit research group dedicated to transforming education and improving the quality of community life.

Continue..

• Is cofounder and vice chairman of Franklin Covey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries.

• Its mission is to empower people and organizations to increase their performance capability through understanding and living principle-centered leadership.

• He is also founder of The Institute for Principle Centered Leadership, a non-profit research group dedicated to transforming education and improving the quality of community life.

Introduction

• The 'seven habits' are a remarkable set of inspirational and aspirational standards for anyone who seeks to live a full, purposeful and good life, and are applicable today more than ever, as the business world - and life beyond business and work - become more attuned to humanist concepts.

• Stephen covey's seven habits are a simple set of rules for life - inter-related and synergistic, and yet each one powerful and worthy of adopting and following in its own right.

SEVEN HABITS

• The Habits of Personal Effectiveness

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Habit 3: Put First things First

• The Habits of Interpersonal Effectiveness

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

Habit 6: Synergize

HABIT 1 Be Proactive

• Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision

• Reactive – holding other Person / situation responsible for own life

• Proactive – Taking responsibility for every aspect of own life. It is more than just taking Initiative

• Tool to determine• Listening to our languages• Circle of Concern / Non-concern / Influence

• Freedom To Choose Stimulus Response Self Awareness Imagination Conscience Independent Will

• Change starts from within, and highly effective people make the decision to improve their lives through the things that they can influence rather than by simply reacting to external forces.

HABIT 2 Begin with the End in Mind

• Covey calls this the habit of personal leadership - leading oneself that is, towards what you consider your aims.

• By developing the habit of concentrating on relevant activities you will build a platform to avoid distractions and become more productive and successful.

HABIT 3 Put First Things First

• The power of independent will makes self Management possible.

• Effective management = putting First thing first = Time Management

• Four generation of Time Management• Note & Checklist• Calendar & Appointment• 1+2 + prioritization + classifying values + comparing activities by relative

values• Do not manage time but Manage Yourself.

• Tool to for Time Management is Time Management matrix

• Tools for moving into Quarter II, delegation work & becoming Q-II self manager

• Covey calls this the habit of personal management.

• Covey says that habit 2 is the first, or mental creation; habit 3 is the second, or physical creation.

HABIT 4 Think win-win• Habit of interpersonal leadership

• Effectiveness is largely achieved through the cooperative efforts of

two or more people.

• We succeed but not at other people expense

• There is plenty for everyone

• Agreement and solutions are mutually Beneficial

• Six Paradigms of Human Interaction• Win• Win/lose• Lose/Win• Lose/Lose• Win/Win• Win/Win or No Deal

HABIT 5 Seek first to understand, than to be Understood

• Habit of communication, empathic communication.

• We have two ear and one mouth, learn to listen.

• We have to listen with the intent to understand and not reply.

• See the world the way he or she sees it.

• It does not mean that you have to agree with everything, you just understand it.

HABIT 6 Synergize

• Habit of creative cooperation or teamwork

• effective problem solving.

• “ The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

• Synergy in the Classroom

• Synergy in the Business

• Synergy & Communication

• All the Nature is synergistic

• We jointly discovered things that we are much less likely to discover by ourselves.

HABIT 7 Sharpen your saw

• This is the habit of self renewal, says Covey, and it necessarily surrounds all the other habits, enabling and encouraging them to happen and grow.

• Covey interprets the self into four parts: the spiritual, mental, physical and the social/emotional, which all need feeding and developing.

Conclusion

• For doing successful business 7 good habits are very important.

• The success literature of the last half of the 20th century largely attributed success to personality traits, skills, techniques, maintaining a positive attitude, etc. This philosophy can be referred to as the Personality Ethic.

• So, this book tells us about this traits of character and personality and seven habits of highly effective people.