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Powerful lessons in personal change
Stephen R. Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, continues to be a best seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology and focuses on timeless principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.
One of the most compelling books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, have empowered and inspired readers for over 25 years and played a part in the transformation of millions of lives, across all age groups and professions.
Embrace the proven principles of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Identify the key principles of effectiveness in which The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People are rooted, and adopt paradigms of effectiveness. Identify areas of your work and personal life where applying these habits will improve your effectiveness and fulfillment.
Focus and act on what can be controlled and influenced, instead of what can’t.
Define clear measures of success and create a plan to achieve them for both life and work.
Prioritize and achieve the most important goals instead of reacting to urgencies.
Develop inclusive, innovative solutions that leverage diversity and satisfy all key stakeholders.
Collaborate more effectively with others by building high-trust relationships in your school.
The Private Victory
The habits of responsibility, accountability, purpose and integrity to do what we set out to do.
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Habit 1: Be Proactive®
Teaching can be very challenging. We can either fall victim to everyday school problems or have the resourcefulness and initiative to solve them.
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Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind®
Develop an outcome-oriented mindset in every activity you engage in—class, grades, requirements, parents and students needs, etc.
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Habit 3: Put First Things First®
Eliminate energy and time-wasting tendencies by focusing and executing on your most important roles and responsibilities.
The Public Victory
The habits of respect, empathy and collaboration needed to build high performance and productive teams.
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Habit 4: Think Win-Win®
Work together as motivated faculty to perform superbly through a shared expectation and accountability process.
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Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood®
Create an atmosphere where teachers and students communicate with empathy by taking the time to fully understand issues, and give candid and accurate feedback.
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Habit 6: Synergize®
Demonstrate innovative problem-solving skills by seeking out differences and new and better alternatives.
Your Daily Private Victory
The habit of renewal, continuous improvement and life-long learning
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Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw®
Tap into the highest and best contribution of everyone on a team by unlocking the total strength, passion, capability, and spirit of each individual.
Excerpts from the Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Jim Collins
As the conversation opened an opportunity for me to exercise my own curiosity, I began, “How did you come up with the ideas in the 7 Habits?”
“I didn’t,” he responded.
“What do you mean?,” I asked. “You wrote the book.”
“Yes, I wrote the book, but the principles were known long before me.” He continued, “They are more like natural laws. All I did was put them together, to synthesize them for people.”
That’s when I began to understand why this work has had such an impact. Covey had spent more than three decades studying, practicing, teaching, and refining what he ultimately distilled into these pages. He did not seek credit for the principles; he sought to teach the principles, to make them accessible.
The ideas embedded in the framework are timeless. They are principles. This is why they work, and why they speak to people in all age groups around the globe. In a world of change, disruption, chaos, and relentless uncertainty, people crave an anchor point, a set of constructs to give them guidance in the face of turbulence. Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom. He rejected the view of those who shout from the rooftops, "There is nothing sacred, nothing enduring, nothing durable to build upon in this ever-changing landscape! Everything is new! Nothing from the past applies!"
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