The document summarizes Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". It describes each of the seven habits: 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, and 7) Sharpen the Saw. It explains that developing these habits leads to greater personal effectiveness and success in relationships through principles like proactivity, leadership, management, mutual understanding, cooperation and self-improvement.

1. Unfold The True Potential ….Based on The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

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
A habit is an unconscious pattern of behavior acquired by frequent
repetition.

4. Ethics – Personality and Character
Although image, techniques and skills can influence your outward
success, the weight of real effectiveness lies in good character

5. Principles Vs Techniques
• Character is
based on Habits.
• Good Habits do
not violate
Principles
• Techniques are
based on Skills
• Techniques can
change.

6. Law of Farm
• We Reap What we Sow.
• Sow A Thought , Reap An
• Sow An Action, Reap A
• Sow A Habit , Reap A Character and
• Sow A Character ,Reap a
Action
Habit
Destiny

7. Attempting to correct our own faults and constantly trying
to improve ourselves by following;
• The primary values (character ethics) and
• Then developing the secondary principles (personality
ethics).
Tazkiyah-e-Nafs (self-accountability)

8. A BALANCE BETWEEN
PRODUCTION
AND
PRODUCTION CAPABILITY
P/PC BALANCE
EFFECTIVENESS

9. The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs

10. we need to be careful not to ignore our
•Health
•Family
•Relaxation and
• Religious activities
by spending too much time and activity
on work( Production).
The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs

12. Paradigm Shift
You could say –
its half-full
or its half-empty.
Both are right – its only the
perception.
In other words the way we see
the problem as a Challenges, at
times, could be opportunities
If you want small change, work on your behavior; if you want quantum-
leap changes, work on your paradigms

13. EMOTIONAL BANK ACCOUNT
• Understand the Individual
• Attend to Little Things
• Keep Promises
• Clarifying Expectations
• Showing Personal Integrity
• SAY I’M SORRY- Apologizing Sincerely

14. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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
Private
Victory
Public
Victory
Renewal

15. Seven Habits Application
Seven Habit is a
Principle-centered
character-based
inside-out
approach to personal
and inter-personal
effectiveness

16. Habit 1: Be Proactive
The Habit of
Personal Vision
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17. Habit 1: Be Proactive
Recognizing that I have the
freedom and ability to
choose how I respond to
whatever happens to me!

18. Habit 1: Be Proactive
(Principle of Personal Vision)
Proactivity Defined: As human
beings we are responsible for our
own lives.
Stimulus Response

19. Reactive
People
Proactive
People
Reactive people
are driven by
feelings,
circumstances,
conditions, the
environment.
Proactive
people are
driven by
carefully
considered,
selected and
internalized
values.
Habit 1: Be Proactive
(Principle of Personal Vision)

20. What happens to a bottle of soda
when you shake it up?
It EXPLODES!

21. circle
of
influence
circle of
concern
Focus on things you can
change or influence
Circle of Influence
Things you
can’t control
Things you
can control
or change

22. If you could “carry the weather
with you”….
you could have a
good day no matter
what comes your way.

23. Habit 1: Be Proactive
(Principle of Personal Vision)
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

24. Habit 1: Be Proactive
(Principle of Personal Vision)

25. Habit 2: Begin with the end in
Mind
•The Habit of
Personal
Leadership
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26. Habit 2: Begin with the end in
Mind
If you don’t know where
you are going, how will
you know when you get
there?
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27. Habit 2: Begin with an end in Mind
(Principle of Personal Leadership)
• Most endeavors that fail, fail with the first creation.
• Leadership is the first creation and Management is the
second creation.
• Management is doing things right but Leadership is doing
the right things.
Mental
Creation
Physical
Creation
Peak Performers: They win because they visualize their victory

28. Habit 3: Put First Things First
•The Habit of
Personal
Management
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29. Habit 3: Put First Things First
Organize and execute
around priorities.
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30. Urgent Not UrgentNotImportantImportant
Q 1
Important
Urgent
Q 3
Not Important
Urgent
Q 2
Important
Not Urgent
Q 4
Not Important
Not Urgent
THE TIME QUADRANT SYSTEM

31. Habit 3: Put First Things First
(Principles of Personal Management)
• Effective Management is putting first things
first
• Urgent Matters are usually visible
• Important Matters contribute to our mission
• Effective People stay out of III & IV
Importance Vs. Urgency

32. Habit 3: Put First Things First
Exercise…….
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33. Habit 4: Think Win-Win
The Habit of Mutual
Benefit

34. Habit 4: Think Win-Win

35. Habit 4: Think Win-Win
•Win-Win means
seeking solutions
that allow every one
to win.
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36. Habit 4: Think Win-Win
•Successful relationships
are built on a win-win
foundation.
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37. Habit 4: Think Win-Win
A Win-Win character
consists of three traits:
•Integrity
•Maturity
•Abundance Mentality
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38. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand
then to be Understood
The Habit of
Communication
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39. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand
then to be Understood
The deepest need of
the human soul is
to be understood.
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40. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand
•To truly
understand, we
must listen to more
than words
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41. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand
•Empathy is
listening with the
eyes and the
“heart.”
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The one who listens does the most work, not the one who speaks

42. 7%
38%
55%
Non-verbal
Sounds (How we say)
Words we use
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
Body Language

43. Mirror, Mirror
To be a good listener, mirror
back what someone says.
Repeat back in your own words
what the person is saying
Empathic Listening Skills
The key to listening is listen with the eyes and the heart

44. Habit 6: Synergize
• The Habit of
creative
Cooperation

45. Habit 6: Synergize
(Principles of Creative Communication)
The term synergy comes from
the Greek word syn-ergos
means “working together"

46. Celebrate Differences:
Come up with at least five differences and five things
you have in common.
Ways
You Are
Alike
Differences
“B”
Differences
“A“
Valuing the differences is the essence of Synergy

47. Habit 6: Synergize
(Principles of Creative Communication)
Synergize
Challenge
or
Opportunity
Synergy
(Third
Alternative)

48. Habit 6: Synergize
•Synergy means one
plus one equals
three or more.
The Habit of Creative Cooperation

49. Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
• The Habit of
Self-Renewal
The Habit of Self-Renewal

50. •PHYSICAL
•MENTAL
•SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL
•SPIRITUAL
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
The Habit of Self-Renewal

51. Habit 7 : Sharpen the Saw
• Self-reflection gives you the ability to know
when to sharpen your saw.
• You need to know when and how to
sharpen your saw. And sometimes you
need help from the most unlikely of
helpers……

53. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Habit 1 Be Proactive
• Habit 2 Begin With The End in Mind
• Habit 3 Put First Things First
• Habit 4 Think Win-win
• Habit 5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood
• Habit 6 Synergize
• Habit 7 Sharpen the Saw

54. Private Victory
Interdependence
Dependence
Independence
Understand/
Understood
5
Synergize
6
Think
Win-Win
4
3
First
Things First
1 Be
Proactive
2 Begin
w/ End in
Mind
Public Victory