7 Habits – Public Victories

Miguel Aranda, MBA

Site Director, Menifee Campus

Adjunct Faculty, School of Business and Professional Studies

Part 2 - Applying Key Principles

Agenda

Brief Review Habits 1-3 Key Principles

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin With The End in Mind

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Key Principles of Interdependence

Habit 4: Think Win / Win

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,

Then Be Understood

Habit 6: Synergize

Review Habits 1-3

Key Points To Remember: Personality Vs. Character Ethic

Principles, Natural Laws and Reality

Paradigm Shifts and Mental Maps

P/PC = Production and Production Capability

Circle of Influence

Maturity Continuum

What are Habits?

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

Habit 3: Put First Things First

What Are Habits

About Habits:

Can be learned and unlearned

It is done over time

It requires practice

It involves a great deal of commitment

Definition: “The intersection of

knowledge, skill and desire.”

The Habit Loop:

1. The Trigger (Your Cue to Act)

2. The Routine (The Behavior)

3. The Reward (What You Like About It)

Habit 1: Be Proactive

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3 deterministic maps: Genetic determinism (DNA)

Psychic determinism (Conditioning)

Environmental determinism (All Others)

Frankl’s paradigm – freedom to choose

Proactivity Defined:

“Its not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

- Covey

Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

All things are created twice: In Your Mind

In The Physical World

“By design or default” – you decide!

Busyness vs. Effectiveness

Leadership vs. Management

We begin with our destination as a clear image: How does your ideal end look?

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Habit 3: Putting First Things First

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Principles of Interdependence

Roots Before Fruits

Emotional Bank Accounts

Problems as Opportunities

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Habit 4: Think Win/Win

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Habit 4: Think Win/Win

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Habit 4: Think Win/Win

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Think about a relationship where you would like to develop a Win/Win agreement:

1. Write down explicitly how you think that person sees the problem and solution. What would a win/win look like for them?

What results constitute a win/win for you?

2. Think about your department and individual goals, structures, processes and communication? Do they encourage competition or cooperation? What systems and processes encourage unhealthy competition? What is one change you can make to move toward Win/Win?

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand

To Understand: Listen Empathically

Four Developmental Stages of Empathic Listening:

1) Mimic content

2) Rephrase content

3) Reflect Feeling

4) Rephrase content AND reflect feeling

The Essence of Understanding:

Ethos: It begins when they have faith in your credibilityPathos: Then they know you get how they are Feeling

Logos: Then you understand their Logic

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Habit 6: Synergize

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What is Synergy?

Have you experienced

Synergy?

Trust, Communication and

Synergy

Habit 6: Synergize

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Habit 6: Synergize

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Think of a situation at work where you want greater teamwork and/or collaboration.

What conditions need to exist to get there?

What can you do to create those conditions?

The Center Exercise

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1. What are my core principles?

2. What is it I am passionate about?

3. Who are the people I want to invest in, how am I

doing at it, how am I doing it and how can I do

better?

4. How can I make a unique contribution to

The world?

My Family?

My Friends?

My Community?

My Career?

5. What goals do I have for my life?

6. What keeps me from achieving my goals?

7. What do I want people to say about me when

I’m gone?

Mastering the Habits

Read 7 Habits Part 1 and 2

Review the exercises in this workshop and the questions at the end of the chapters

Identify your key life principles

Write or revise your mission statement

Start rewriting your vision of the future by setting and acting on goals

What is 1 goal you can act on today?

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