7 Habits of Highly Effective people

Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective people

Chapter 5

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What is the "7 Habits of Highly Effective people", I often hear people referring to it? Can you tell me what it is all about? Can I apply these habits and concepts in business?

By following the ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective people’, you can enhance your performance in all aspects of life and will definitely contribute to greater success in business.

It is all about creating a Win-Win mind set and way of life. The diagram below will explain the following aspects:

What the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people entail.
The core principles underlying each of the seven habits.
The relationship between the seven habits and the dependency continuum.

Thank you to:
Franklin Covey for
“The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People”.

	First principle of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people
1.	Core principle: Be pro-active, by applying self-knowledge and self-awareness in order to be able to choose your response.
	Second principle of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people
2.	Core principle: Self-awareness, personal vision and responsibility. Begin with the end in mind, by applying imagination and conscience.
	Third principle of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people
3.	Core principle: Leadership and having a mission. Put first things first by applying will-power.
	Fourth principle of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people
4.	Core principle: Managing time and priorities around roles and goals. Think Win-Win by adopting an abundance mentality.
	Fifth principle of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people
5.	Core principle: Seeking mutual benefit.Seek first to understand, then to be understood by applying courage balanced by consideration.
	Sixth principle of the 7 Habit of Highly Effective people
6.	Core principle: Empathetic communication. "Sharpen the saw" through continuous improvement of Self-renewal.
	Seventh principle of the 7 Habits of Highly Sffective people
7.	Core principle: Continuous involvement.

Interdependence - ‘WE’ paradigm:

We can do it.

We can co-operate.

We can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself and meaningfully with others, and have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings.

Independence - ‘I’ paradigm:

I can do it.

I am responsible.

I am self reliant.

I can choose.

Independent people will strive to get what they want through their own efforts.

Dependence - ‘YOU’ paradigm: You take care of me.

You come through for me.

I blame you for the results.

Dependent people need others to get what they want.

How do I go about growing interdependence?

Growing interdependence depends upon building trust in relationships. Think of building trust as making deposits into an Emotional Bank Account.

The more deposits you make, the more reserves you accumulate.

Good awareness

The Emotional Bank Account:

Keeping commitments

Keeping a commitment or a promise is a major deposit, breaking one is a major withdrawal.

Understanding the individual

Really seeking to understand another person is probably one of the most important deposits we can make, and it is the key to every other deposit.

Attending to the little things

The little kindnesses and courtesies are very important. Small discourtesies, a little unkindness, little forms of disrespect make large withdrawals. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

Apologizing sincerely when we make a withdrawal

When we make withdrawals from the emotional bank account, we need to apologize and we need to do it sincerely. Great deposits come in the sincere words:

“I was wrong."

"That was unkind of me."

"I showed you no respect."

"I gave you no dignity, and I'm deeply sorry."

It takes a great deal of character and strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

When we truly love others without condition, without strings, we help them feel secure and safe and validated and affirmed in essential worth, identity, and integrity. Their natural growth process is encouraged. We make it easier for them to live the laws of life - co-operation, contribution, self-discipline, integrity and to discover and live true to the highest and best within them.

“If I have a habit of showing discourtesy, disrespect, cutting you off, overreacting, ignoring you, becoming arbitrary, betraying your trust, threatening you, or playing little tin god in your life, my Emotional Bank Account will eventually be overdrawn.

The trust level will become very low. What flexibility do I then have?"

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