Seven Habits Analysis

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.

The Seven Habits Profile is a tool created by Dr. Stephen Covey, bestselling author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. In his book, Dr. Covey describes important characteristics of people who are not only great citizens of this world, but “highly effective” leaders and role models. It is imperative to understand that these characteristics or traits can be developed or acquired by everyone who wishes to obtain them. Covey (2004) Leaders should strive to attain each of the following character traits; by using this tool, I gained useful information that will evaluate my leadership skills. The areas measured by the Seven Habits Profile are the following:

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This includes a discussion on my leadership styles and practices based upon the 7 Habits®

In Category 2 of the Seven Habits Profile which tests “Life Balance,” I rated on the high end of “good.” I will always put myself in the middle when it comes to balancing the people in my life and the feelings of others because there is always work to be done. This is what makes me a self-aware person, though, because I am conscious of the fact that no matter what I do, there is always room for improvement (Lanz, 2013). I use this skill in leadership by helping followers be mindful of their life balance.

After researching my strengths, weaknesses, and all of the categories of The Seven Habits Profile, I am confident I can use this information as an opportunity to grow on skills as both a leader in work and in my personal life. In reviewing my results, I was disappointed that I did not score higher in some categories that I was confident I was strong at. On the other hand, I was surprised to score so high on a few. I feel the results of this profile show that I am a strong leader with plenty of room to grow.

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Three habits of mind I have used effectively in my first year of college are being open to new ideas, being flexible, and being persistent. These habits of mind have helped me with various assignments this past year. I hope to further develop additional habits of mind, such as being more engaged, to help me reach my full academic potential.

The first section of the evaluation includes information about the Emotional Bank Account and Life Balance, which are the two foundations of the seven habits evaluation. These two categories on their own can show someone what type of person they are versus how they perceive themselves. The task is to evaluate oneself in several areas to include speaking negatively about people when they are not present, keeping promises and commitments, showing kindness, maintaining a work life balance, staying focused without getting burnt out, and keeping others in mind while working on a task they have suggested. The maximum achievable score is 36. While ranking myself, I scored seventeen (17) in category one, and fourteen (14) in category 2 giving me

Onto the third one, Habit 3, which is Put First Things First. This habit, to me, is the most important in the private victory. This is because I tend to struggle with this habit when I have thousands of distractions around me. Anyways moving on, there are 4 time quadrants made up of two categories: “important” and “urgent,” the four quadrants are: Q1-The Procrastinator (important, urgent,) Q2-The Prioritizer (important, not urgent,) Q3-The Yes-Man (not important, urgent,) Q4-The Slacker (not important, not urgent.)

Based on the results of the Seven Habits Profile, it is indicated that my highest scoring category was “Seeking to Understand”. In this particular category the three areas to score are “I am sensitive to the feelings of others”, “I seek to understand the viewpoints of others”, and “When listening, I try to see things from others points of view, not just my own”. These are practices I follow on a daily basis. Itt is my belief that in order to fully understand a situation one must take into account all aspects and opinions in order to come to a resolution. Currently, I am a member of the Culture and Communication Council within my company, part of my role is to communicate the concerns of employers to upper level management. In order to communicate information effectively it is important that I am in fact sensitive to the viewpoints of others and to see things from

As stated previously, I would like to improve my score in the “Putting First Things First” category

Considering the previous habits I have examined, all the reflections I have on recent events are related to the seven habits and my continued personal and professional development. This proves the textbook is very helpful and useful, because it covers every aspects of my life. However, the most important habit I would consider as Habit Four: think win/win. Because win/win is the fundamental of a long term success between two parties.

My life has begun to shift since the beginning of the MOD. I have come to realization that everyone has problems but it's your mentality, faith, and determination that gets you through them.With that being said, all I want is positivity in my future and I know that in order to do that changes had to be made.With the help of this course and covey's 7 habits I'm able to look at my life from a different perspective.

The purpose of this paper is to reflect and make an analysis of the general strengths and weaknesses of a leader, provide recommendations, thoughts of overall performance to improve on this person’s leadership style in which practices and theories were utilized most effectively. Upon such, draw conclusions and provide an integration of this leadership practice into my own leadership practice. The accomplishment of this will be achieved by identifying several key practices from published documents surrounding and encompassing the leader, and comparing them to known relative concepts for a holistic view of the approach.