THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

 

THESEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

These Seven habits are listed below

1.     Be Proactive -

2.     Begin with the end in mind  

3.     Put first things first

4.     Think “win/win”

5.     Seek first to understand, then to be understood

6.     Synergize

7.     Sharpen the saw

 

Be Proactive --Principles of Personal Vision

ü        The first and necessary habit is to be Proactive.

ü        This habit is so important to become a successful person in your life.

ü        This habit makes up the private victory.

ü        It is related to Principles of Personal Visio

ü        Proactivity means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives.

ü        Being proactive means recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.

Begin with the End in Mind

 

ü        Begin with the end in mind is the second most important habit after proactive.

ü        This habit is also necessary to adopt a right path in your way of success.

ü        This habit makes up the private victory.

ü        The second habit of effectiveness is to begin with the end in mind. 

ü        It means to know where you are going so as to understand where you are now, and take your next step in the right direction.

ü        “Thriving on change requires a core of changeless values.”

 

     Put First Things First :

ü        The third and next habit involves self-leadership and self-management: putting first things first.

ü        This habit makes up the private victory.

ü        It is related to Principles of Personal Management.

ü        Leader ship decides what the “first things” are, and management is the discipline of carrying out your program. 

ü        Habits 1 and 2 are absolutely essential and prerequisite to Habit 3.  You can't become principle-centred without first being aware of and developing your own proactive nature.

ü        “We don’t manage time. We can only manage ourselves.”

 

 Think Win-Win

ü        Think win-win is the fourth habit of highly effective people.

ü        It is also related to our Public victory.

ü        The habit of effective interpersonal leadership is Think Win-Win.

ü        There are six Paradigms of Human Interaction.

ü        Win-win is not a technique; it's a total philosophy of human interaction. In fact, it is one of six paradigms of interaction.  

ü        The alternative paradigms are win-lose, lose-win, lose-lose, win, and Win-Win or No Deal

 

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

ü        The fifth habit is Seek to understand, and then be understood.

ü        It is related to our Public victory.

ü        The most important word to know in mastering this habit is “listen.” Listen to your colleagues, family, friends, and customers but not with intent to reply, to convince, to manipulate. 

ü        Listen simply to understand, to see how the other party sees things. The skill to develop here is empathy. 

ü        Empathy is not sympathy. Sympathy is a form of agreement, a judgment. The essence of empathic listening is not that you agree with someone; it’s that you fully understand him, emotionally and intellectually. 

ü        “Empathic listening is with the ears, eyes, and heart - for feeling, for meaning.”

 

Synergize  

ü        The sixth habit of highly effective people is Synergize.

ü        It is also related to our Public victory.

ü        In a similar sense, the exercise of all the other habits prepares us for the habit of synergy.

ü        Properly understood, synergy is the highest activity of life.

ü        Ecology is a word which basically describes the synergism in nature -- everything is related to everything else.  

ü        These are types of Negative Synergy and Synergy in Business.

 

ü        “Once people have been through synergy, they’re not the same.”

Sharpen the Saw

ü        The seventh and last habit of highly effective people is Sharpen the saw.

ü        This habit makes all the others possible - periodically renewing ourselves in mind body, and spirit.

ü        Habit seven is taking time to sharpen the saw (you are the saw). It’s the habit that makes all the others possible. 

ü        To sharpen the saw means renewing ourselves, in all four aspects of our natures: 

ü        Physical - exercise, nutrition, stress management

ü        Mental - reading, visualizing, planning, writing 

ü        Social/Emotional - service, empathy, synergy, security  Spiritual - spiritual reading, study, and meditation.