The Seven Habits

Stephen Covey authored the book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to offer his expert, professional, and personal insight of seven habits, or traits, exhibited by effective people. While outlining the seven habits, he emphasizes that each previous habit is the building block for the next. He also shows how all the habits are tied together to effectively transition through the growth stages of dependence to independence to interdependence to become an effective person.

Covey, S (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal change. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Furthermore, the book provides great real life examples about habits and about how they can be changed by understanding how they work. In understanding the structure of habits, the book mentions that habits can be ignored, changed and replaced. It also mentions that in order to change a habit the cue and reward

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.

The habits we create come in small obtainable steps and require very little willpower (Pg. 63). Opposed to other habit forming strategies that tell us to create a huge change in our lifestyles and hope that we keep those changes. It’s extremely hard to make life long changes but even harder is to keep those changes as part of our lives. Guise compares changing habits when he states “When you attempt to introduce a new behavior, it’s like trying to enter a weight lifting competition without training.” (Pg. 62).

After filling out the Seven Habits Profile, I have a much better idea of what my leadership strengths and weakness are. The categories I did the best on were category one, category six, cat-egory 7 and category 8. Category 1 is emotional bank account and the attributes for this was that I show kindness and consideration for others, I keep promises and honor commitments, and that I do not speak negatively of others when they are not present. While I may not be a very social person, I do believe in treating people how I would like to be treated. This means that I show re-spect and kindness to those around me so that everyone can be in a positive mood. I was also raised to be honest and truthful towards others. While some promises or commitments

The Seven Habits Analysis consists of nine categories, two of those categories make up what is considered the foundation habits from which the other seven habits are built upon. Twelve was my lowest scoring in the category of life balance, to which I expected. I have been in the business of Medical Staff functions for the last ten years, due to the demands of the job, I have struggled for the last nine years in finding an appropriate work/life balance. My position is deadline heavy. There is no room for extensions on most tasks so it is important that my time management skills be impeccable. I have had to rely heavily on the project management team to ensure that I and my team meet the monthly deadlines we are faced with; in addition to managing

As I have reflected on the results of my Seven Habits Profile I have concluded that I mainly have a coaching leadership style which identifies with the situational leadership theory. I scored high within the categories that were centered around being sensitive and understanding to others, interested in seeking out their opinions, giving support, concern, and encouragement for their success, as well as valuing the importance of being kind, considerate, and working in harmony. The profile has also indicated that I need to concentrate on becoming more self-disciplined in planning ahead including exact steps to efficiently accomplish my tasks and reach my personal or work-related goals. To start the practice of constructing more in-depth

Collaboration helps in looking things from different angles. Collaborating with people with different specialization brings diverse responses. This will make others to learn and think from that perspective which they would have hardly thought of if they had worked individually.

After conducting a leadership evaluation on the Seven Habits Profile. The Seven Habits profile is created by Stephen Covey in 1989.The purpose of the seven habits is to show how to live with fairness, honesty, and integrity. The seven habits describe a way of thinking, living, and doing what is consistent with these principles. These principles will help adapt with daily life and changes.

It’s the fulfillment of the 1st and 2nd habit. The habit is personally about time management. Habit 3 also shows us to eliminate unimportant things in our life. So without the unimportant things in our life we will be able to focus on the important things in our life. I will focus more on the important things then the unimportant things.

For this task, I completed Seven Habits Profile. Stephen Covey first published the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in 1989. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is by now one of the best-selling books of all time. (Smith, Hadjian) The profile measures across nine categories. The scores ranged from one, very poor, to eighteen, outstanding. The Seven Habits Profile is an excellent tool to help understand where you can improve your leadership skills.

The seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey is a self-help book for all kind of people.It is based on personal experiences and it gives us tips or suggestions for how to better our lives.Many of us want to be effective in our lives and one day we hope to achieve our goals,but we are not willing to analyze our own standards.Covey uses real life examples as well as his own experience to uncover a life full of prosperity.Furthermore, he gives ways to solve problems and approach them in a daily basis. Covey starts off by giving his own definition of the word Habits which is "The interactions of knowledge,skill,and desire."This shows the different tools that we need to have to get to our goals;to be successful in some way.Habits one,two and three have to deal with being dependent of other people to becoming independent;

Aristotle is credited with stating the whole is greater than the simple sum of its parts. This also represents the definition of synergy. Synergy is the unified working of the sum to create something greater than the individual components. For instance a car engine is comprised of an engine block, belts, hoses, spark plugs, and other miscellaneous components. Individually these components are not going to propel a vehicle however when put together and fed some fuel the components create the oomph needed to support transportation. In sports and business the cooperation and collaboration of people in organizations is no different. The people within these groups must be working in a unified manner toward a common set of goals and objectives. This common set of goals and objective provides the end point so that a team of people have the necessary oomph, to achieve outcomes that would otherwise be unattainable by a single individual.

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