The Seven Habits of Highly

Effective People.
The figures and ideas on this presentation are a copyright of Dr. Steven Covey

Give a man a fish and you feed

him for a day; teach him how to
fish and you feed him for a
lifetime.
Eastern Proverb

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 Do we need a new paradigm?
• What is a paradigm?
• What is a paradigm shift?
– The paradigm shift is basically that the rules get changed.
Changing the rules changes everything.
– The 3 phase cycle of a paradigm shift
• Problems are solved slowly
– People reluctantly learn the pradigm
– Things happen very rapidly, paradigm is working
– The curve is flattened, the paradigm does not solve the problems. The
problems are obvious
» Poor class/lab performance
» Failing classes

A Farmer and Information

Systems. What is so different
about their approach to life?

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 EFFICIENCY VS.
EFFECTIVENESS
• Efficiency-Doing things right (studying
before the test and getting a good grade)

• Effectiveness-Doing the right thing

(Developing good studying habits)

What is a habit?
• Patterns of behavior
composed of three
overlapping components
– Knowledge
– Desire
– Skill

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 Maturity Continuum
• First three habits
– Character
– Help achieve the private
victory
– Independence
• Next three
– Outward expression of
character
– Mutual benefits
– Public victories
• Last habit
– Sustains the growth
process

BE PROACTIVE
• Take responsibility for
your attitude and actions
– Response/ability
• We have the ability to
choose how we respond
• Behavior is a product of
our own choices that are
based on values and not
feelings
• Focus time of what we
can control instead of
what we cannot of have
little control
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 STIMULUS-RESPONSE
MODELS ARE LIMITED

BEGIN WITH THE END IN

MIND
• Habit of personal leadership
– Begin each day with a clear understanding of
our desired direction and destination
• Develop a personal mission statement
– What you want to be (character)
– What you want to do (contributions)

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 Where there is no vision, the people
perish…
Proverbs 29:18

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PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

• Personal Management
– Organizing and managing your time according
to the personal priorities established in habit 2
• We must invest time on the planning,
prevention, and relationship-building
activities (Quadrant II).
• What matter most?

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 TIME MANAGEMENT MATRIX
Urgent Not Urgent

I II
Important

ACTIVITIES: ACTIVITIES:

Crises Preparation
Pressing Problems Prevention, PC Activities
Deadline-driven projects, meetings, Relationship building
preparations Recognizing new opportunities
Planning, recreation
Values clarification
Empowerment

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III
ACTIVITIES:
ACTIVITIES:
Trivia, busy work
Not Important

Interruptions, some phone calls Some mail

Some mail, some reports Some phone calls
Some meetings Time wasters
Many proximate, pressing matters Pleasant activities
Many popular activities Irrelevant mail
Watching TV excessively

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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 muatually
beneficial
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 SEEK FIRST TO
UNDERSTAND, THEN 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.
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SYNERGIZE
• Habit of creative cooperation or teamwork
• We jointly discovered things that we are
much less likely to discover by ourselves.
• We are able to find the Third Alternative
which is not a compromise but a win-win
solution
• 1 + 1 =?

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 SHARPEN THE SAW
• Habit of self-renewal
• Enhance the greatest asset that you have
• We need to have a balanced and systematic
program of self-renewal
• Four dimensions of self-renewal
• We need to be proactive
• Renewal is the principle and the process that
empowers us to move in an upward spiral of
growth,change and continuous improvement
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Four Dimension of Renewal

The person who doesn’t read is not better

off than a person who can’t read
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 THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY
INNEFECTIVE PEOPLE
• Be reactive
– Doubt yourself and blame others
• Work without any clear end in mind
• Do the urgent thing first
– Urgent is not always the most important
• Think Win/lose
• Seek first to be understood
• If you cant’ win, compromise
• Fear change and put off improvement

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When do we have to change?

When the pain of the same is

greater than the pain of change.

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