Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

• By Stephen R. Covey
• Overview

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The Habits of Personal Effectiveness

• Habit 1 Be Proactive
• Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind
• Habit 3 Put First things First

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Proactivity is the habit of Personal Vision

• Habit 1
• Be Proactive
• Be responsible for your life
• Make Choices from Values Not Temporary or
  Immediate Feelings
• Best way to predict your future is to CREATE IT!

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Beginning with the End in Mind is the habit of
Personal Leadership

• Habit 2
• Beginning with the End in Mind
• Discover a personal mission
• Support it with chosen roles and goals
• Establish personal values that will guide
  proactivity
• Visualize and create a mental image of what you
  want to create physically

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Putting First Things First is the habit of
Personal Management

• Habit 3
• Put First Things First
• Operate every day from priorities established in
  your mission, roles, and goals
• Translate your mission into specific daily
  activities
• Create optimal value from your time

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The Habits of Interpersonal Effectiveness

• Habit 4 Think Win-Win
• Habit 5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
  Understood
• Habit 6 Synergize

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Think Win-Win is the habit of Interpersonal
Leadership

• Habit 4
• Think Win-Win
• Wanting other people to win as well as yourself
• Belief in Third Alternative
• A solution that gives everyone what they want
• Unites people in helpful, supportive ways

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Seek First to Understand is the habit of
Communication

• Habit 5
• Seek First to Understand
• Being genuinely interested in seeking another
  persons point of view whether or not you agree
• Attitude of openness
• Skill of empathetic listening
• Helps search for mutually beneficial alternatives

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Synergy is the habit of Creative Cooperation

• Habit 6
• Synergize
• Seeing and appreciating differences in a
  relationship as a source of information and
  creativity
• Others points of view can increase the
  effectiveness of an interaction
• Experience in true interdependency