7 Habits

Dr. (Ms.) S. Passi

The 7 Habits ... An Overview

7
Sharpen saw

Interdependence
Understand
Synergize
5
6
PUBLIC
VICTORY
Think win-win
4

Independence
3
1 things 1st
st

PRIVATE
VICTORY
1
2
Be Proactive
End in mind

habit = knowledge
+ skill
+ desire

Dependence

 Habit 1
Be Proactive

Proactive Model
Stimulus

Freedom
to
Choose

Response

How to Use this Freedom of

Choice in Proactive Model
Stimulus

Freedom
to
Choose

SelfAwareness
Imagination

Response

Independent
Will
Conscience

Proactive Language
Reactive Language

Proactive Language

Theres nothing I can do

Lets look at our

alternatives

Thats just the way I am

I can choose a different

approach

He makes me so mad

I control my own feelings

They wont allow that

I can create an effective

presentation

I have to do that

I will choose an
appropriate response

I cant

I choose

I must

I prefer

If only

I will

Proactive Focus
(Positive Energy Enlarges the Circle of Influence)

Circle of concern

Circle of concern

Circle of Influence

Circle of Influence

Reactive Focus
(Negative Energy Reduces the Circle of Influence)

Circle of concern

Circle of Influence

Circle of Influence

Circle of Concern

 Habit 2
Begin with the End in Mind:
Principles of Personal Leadership

Look at the end in mind

End of Life
5 Years
6 Months
Today

Source of our security,

guidance, wisdom and power

Principles
Family

Money

Spouse
Self

Work
PRINCIPLES

Church

Possessions
Pleasure

Enemy

Friend

 Habit 3
Principle of Personal
Management
PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

Four Generations of Time

Management

First Generation
Notes, Checklists

Second Generation
Calendars, Appointment, Books

Third Generation
Prioritization, Clarifying Values, Settings Goals

Fourth Generation
Manage Self, Preserving and Enhancing
Relationships

The Time Management Matrix

Important

Not Urgent

I
Crises
Pressing problems
Deadline driven
projects

II
Prevention, PC activities
Relationship building
Recognizing new opportunitie
Planning, Recreation

Not important

Urgent

III
Interruptions
Some calls, mail, reports
or meetings, Proximate
Pressing matters
Popular activities

IV
Trivia, Busy work
Some mail
Some phone calls
Time wasters
Pleasant activities

Find Your Time

Wasters
How do we decide a time waster
Junk use of time ( IMS )
Why do we waste time?

Delegate
Gofer delegation: supervise whole process
Stewardship delegation : agreements of
goals

 Habit 4

2# Win/Lose

Use power credentials or personality to

get their way
Does not work in interdependent
environment
Authoritative leadership style
How win/lose thinking gets scripted
In family
Academic world
Law

3# Lose / Win

Having little courage to express their

feelings and convictions (coward- ness)
They bury their feelings which result in
psychosomatic illness
They have low self esteem

4# Lose / Lose

Result of encounters between two

win/lose people
Philosophy of war
Philosophy of highly dependent peoples

5# Win

Win at all costs

Other people dont matter

6# No deal

If no solution is reached its better that we

agree to disagree
Feel liberated, no need to manipulate
people

 Habit 5
Seek First to Understand, Then to
be Understood

What is Important in This Habit

Seek first to understand, then to be
understood (time)
Seek first to understand THAN to be
understood (person)
THEN ..THAN

 Habit 6
Synergize: Principles of Creative
Cooperation
How do you make
synergetic team-environment?

Levels of Communication
High
Synergistic (Win/Win)

TRUST

Respectful (Compromise)

Defensive (Win/Lose or Lose/Win)

Low
High

COOPERATION

Low

 Habit 7
Sharpen the Saw

Full Being = Four Dimensions

Physical
endurance, strength, flexibility,
sleep, eating

Social

Mental

family, friends, service

(notes, phone calls, emails, visits)

reading, journaling, discussing,

seminars, meetings

Spiritual
battle of good versus evil
(Atheism, Christianity, Hinduism,
Islam, Judaism)

When will YOU sharpen your saw?

What measures will you use in each category?