My Leadership: The Seven Habits Profile

This following will outline my personal leadership practices and potential future leadership. To analyze my leadership qualities I will use the Seven Habits Profile and a leadership theory to determine my strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity for improvement. In conclusion, I will determine the best recommendations for long-term improvement as well as SMART goals, or short-term courses of action, for leadership improvement.

After completing the seven habits profile, my lowest categories were emotional bank account, life balance, be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, seek first to understand, and sharpen the saw.

I have always thought of myself as a strong, motivated leader, and based on the results of my seven habits profile I can confirm that there will always be room to grow. There are areas of the seven habits profile in which I thought I excelled, but in reality those are the areas that I need to develop the most. I have always seemed to complete whatever task I may have had in mind, and was always successful in the path that I had taken to get there. When I take time to reflect on the results of my seven habits profile, I notice that I don’t tend to begin with the end in mind. I usually jump in headfirst and worry about the end when I get close to the finish. I feel like I am able to accomplish the most when I am working in total crisis mode, and fail to utilize any time to plan my week with a clear idea of what I desire to accomplish. Failing to have a plan seems to cause me to overthink things, and I stress on minor details that could have been avoided with even the simplest of plans. Even though I am able to complete the tasks in which I need to accomplish, I am more thankful that I have finished and to exhausted to feel accomplished. As a leader, I tent to neglect the feelings of others around me, and instead focus on what it is I think is best for the organization in which I am leading. It is hard for me to sympathize as a leader with those who allow their emotions to cloud their judgment. Everyone has

A Disc Assessment is an excellent tool to obtain an individual personality trait. It can disclose information one may or may not have known about themselves. In my case I discovered I have a blend of Cautious, Supportive, and Dominant trait. This explains why I see myself as a Democratic, Authoritative, and an Affiliative leader. On the DISC assessment it describes me as careful person and one that strive for excellence. Additionally, I look for results and enjoy work alongside my teammates. In my current position, the Democratic and Affiliative approach has helped me to address any conflict or disagreements. Also, having certain power within the company provided me with the authority to put a plan into action that would benefit the company and keep the employees motivated in the workplace. The three-leadership style is an advantage as I can use any one or all three on any one or more employees with different personalities.

Category five is where I scored the lowest, only a nine on this one. Even though the things I do every day are meaningful and absolutely contribute towards my life goals, I do often allow important activities of my life get lost in the daily hustle and bustle. And as I have already mentioned I’m horrible at carrying out plans and am probably one of the biggest procrastinators you will ever meet and have been for forty years now and even though I know it’s a horrible habit, it’s not one I have managed to

An analysis of my category scores for the Seven Habits Profile yielded results that accurately portrayed what I feel are my strengths and weaknesses. As someone that has studied the Seven Habits many years ago, I have realized that the emphasis on excelling with certain habits and struggling with others can be attributed to a maturation process that is self-awareness based as well as environment-based. Through my career and within the different roles I have assumed, the opportunities to practice the Seven Habits were often dependent on my specific role and within the environment that offered opportunities to practice the Seven Habits (Covey, 1998). That stated, my category totals have been dynamic through the years and improvements have been

In the book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People starts to get down to the seven habits starting with habit 1 (proactive), and habit 2 (begin with the end in

Following the completion of my Seven Habits Profile, it has been discovered that my overall limitation is prioritization. My area of shortcomings in the Seven Habits Profile is procrastination, in spite of the fact that I work thoroughly at completing assignments, I linger in regions that are little of no worry to myself. For example, I remain to a great degree versed in finishing scheduling audits, since I have directed these on a month to month premise. I slow down consistently holding up until the last moment to have these finished. In the event that I remain taking a shot at a task, for example, come back to facility orders I stay prepared to do then unwavering. I perceive what I have to fulfill and that is the reason, I scored

The sixth category was think win-win. I scored very high in this category with a score of eighteen. I believe I scored very high in this category because of my optimism. I truly want to help others succeed their goals. I always look for the best possible outcome for everyone when resolving conflict. One way that I could improve this is to set guidelines on internet browsing time, which would help me not become easily distracted.

Leaders set vision, strategies, goals, and values in order to guide for desired action and behavior. Leaders are characterized by certain traits which distinguish leaders from non-leaders includes Drive, desire to lead, honesty, cognitive ability, self-confidence and knowledge. Effective leaders must have two major qualities: knowledge and communication competence. Leader needs knowledge of issue and the ways of effectively leading a team. This knowledge will enable leader to identify alternatives available. He also needs to be an effective communicator as equally listener and speaker. Leaders should acquire qualities of flexible, openness, empathetic, courage, interactive, and positive attitude. (

Just like finding habits that can be useful for you it’s important to find habits that are holding you back. Most of these 7 habits can easily become such a normal, everyday part of life that you hardly notice it (or how it’s affecting you). I’ve dabbled with all of them quite a bit. Not surprisingly I didn’t get much of the important stuff done. I´d also like to add that these are just 7 broad habits you can establish to become highly ineffective in most parts of your life. I pretty sure there are several more.

The attached profile sheet reflects a panoramic view of my alignment to some of those principles. The seven habits are a “way of thinking, living and doing that is consistent” (Harvey, 2015) with what Covey describes as Principle-centered living (Covey, 2000, p. 59). The seven habits profile sheet measures how we see, perceive our actions and attitudes towards ourselves and towards others.

Jim Collins and a group of 22 research associates conducted a five-year research project searching an answer on the question ‘how a company from merely good can be transformed to great one’ and identified that behind this transformation lies a level 5 leader. Level 5 leadership refers to the highest level in a hierarchy of manager’s capabilities. A level 5 leader transforms the organisation into a great institution through a paradoxical combination of personal humility plus professional will.

Synergy is not just about applying the concept in a classroom or a workspace, although synergy works extraordinarily in those scenarios, synergy should be applied to every social interaction we face. Synergy, in simple terms is when the whole means more than the sum of its parts. In order to appreciate the whole, one needs to first value the differences. This

Synergy: - “The ability of two or more units to generate greater value working together than they could working