Stephen R. Covey Seven effective habits for individuals. The Document consist of the first two habits 1. Be Productive 2. Reactive.
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1. Stephen Covey on Effective Habits
By: Muhammad Ghayas
“Seven” Habits at Work
2. Need for effectiveness
• No company can succeed until individuals within
it succeed. No group can achieve its objectives
until its people achieve theirs
– Dr. Stephen R. Covey,
3. Desire
Habits Defined
• Knowledge is the what to do
and why.
• Skill is the how to do.
• Desire is the motivation, the
want to do.
• A habit is the intersection of
knowledge, skill and desire.
Knowledge
Skill
Habit
Webster defines habit: is settled or regular tendency or
practice, esp. one that is hard to give up.
4. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
Private
Victory
10. Reactive Behavior
•Reactive people allow outside
influences (moods, feelings, or
circumstances) to control their
behavior.
Stimulus Response
11. What happens to a bottle of soda
when you shake it up?
It EXPLODES!
12. Sometimes things go wrong, and we feel shaken up.
As a result, we might EXPLODE on someone or
something. This is called being REACTIVE.
Reactive Behavior
13. When you are
PROACTIVE,
you make a choice about
how you react to the things
that happen in your life.
You act like a water bottle.
You might get shaken up or
mad, but you stay calm and
don’t explode!
Proactive Behavior
15. Habit 1: Be Proactive
Where do you focus your time and energy?
• Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence.
• Reactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern.
Circle of Influence
Circle of Concern
Proactive Focus Reactive Focus
16. “Proactive people focus their efforts in
their circle of influence, causing the
circle of influence to increase
Reactive people focus their effort in the
circle of concern. The negative energy
generated by that focus causes the circle
of influence to shrink”
17. Things you CAN’T
control or change:
•Other people
•The weather
•Things you did wrong
in the past
•How other people
treat you
Circle of Influence & Concern
Things you CAN
control or change:
•Your attitude
•Your mood
•Your reaction to good
and bad things that
happen
•How I treat other people
Ghandi: They cannot take our self respect unless we give it
to them.
21. Why Mission Statement Is Important?
If you don’t know where you are going,
how will you know when you get
there?
22. Begin with the End in MindBegin with the End in Mind
An Underlying PrincipleAn Underlying Principle
Mental creation precedes physicalMental creation precedes physical
creationcreation
23. Habit 2: Begin with an end in Mind
• Most endeavors that fail, fail with the first
creation.
Mental
Creation
Physical
Creation
24. All Things Are Created Twice
"Begin with the End in Mind" is based on the
principle that all things are created twice. There's
a mental or first creation, and a physical or
second creation to all things