The Seven Habits Profile Of My Life

When you enter a room and walk in to a group of people you may not know it but you are demonstrating group leadership skills. These leadership skills have a large range of things you may have to master. Some of these skills well be strengths and some well be weaknesses showing what type of leader you could be in a group. Because of this I am going to go over three of my strengths that I have identified with over time, and three weaknesses that I have identified with over time. My strengths that I want to talk about are becoming aware of your own culture/self-awareness, goodwill and caring, active listening and encouragers. My weaknesses that I’m listing are constancy, openness, and sense of humor. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. With having weaknesses and strengths it shows us how we can grow by fixing problems with in the weakness and where we are at the time.

Stephen R. Covey book is titled “The 7 habits of highly effective people” helps to develop individuals’ personality in relation with others. The author takes us on the journey thru becoming proactive. Than we learn to realize where are we going with our life. The next step is to set priorities in our life. What things are important and what things can wait. We also learn how to achieve compromise that is satisfactory to all parties involved in daily activities. The author teaches us how to practice empathetic communications and the importance of the team work. Once all of that is achieved we are reminded to renew ourselves thru elements of nature.

I have found that self-assessments tend to be somewhat unreliable because people tend to be too hard or too easy on themselves. With this is mind, I tried to really take an honest look at my strengths and weakness when filling out the Seven Habits Profile. I consider myself to be the quintessential “People Person” and I did see that reflected in my results.

A third leadership strength that I possess is my planning process. As mentioned earlier, I utilize various planners for different aspects of my life which helps me ensure that I make the time to do what I need and want to do. Through planning, I am able to break down my work and class assignments into steps so that I do not feel overwhelmed. It also helps me complete these assignments in a timely manner. This process is useful for all leadership styles, some more than others. This strength is particularly useful when using the directing style of leadership which entails providing detailed goals and tasks and monitoring the performance and progress of employees (Daft, 2014).

Delegation…. Having the knowledge to know how to delegate efficiently is the key to advantaging yourself and increasing your importance to any company. Transferring responsibility permits you to shift from what you can do yourself to what you can supervise. Delegating tasks is one of the utmost significant and efficient managerial tools there is today. Lacking the capability to delegate efficiently and effectively, is unmanageable for you to progress in a supervisory position to an even advanced position of accountability.

1. McMillan demonstrates that the only way to fix the American eating habits is to consider the issue of social classes when discussing about the best eating habits that promotes health and fitness.

According to Finzel (2007), everyone wants to feel needed, which can be an issue with delegation. At times, leaders may not have enough projects to delegate to everyone on staff. This may be viewed as loss of value. However, the value of the leader is to coach and lead – not micromanage. In addition, to dispel any thoughts of supervisors devaluing staff (Finzel, 2007).

Delegation: Having team leaders who you can delegate tasks too and are willing and able to take on more responsibility,

The Seven Effective Habits brought a football team to victory, and made history for overcoming racism in a small town. The Habits transformed individuals, a team and a community; key figures include Louie Lastik and Coach Boone. All began when the multiracial football team at T.C. Williams High School, who bonded over training camp, had a winning streak, bringing fans of all skin together colour into one.

My first reaction to the Seven Habits Profile results was speechless. When I start to think what it takes to become an effective leader versus manager I start by evaluating the traits, skills, emotion intelligence and among other attributes of the personality. The next process of my thinking is self-evaluating myself to see if I possess those elements. The video was an eye opening revelation considering what I consider an effective leader aligns with The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The seven habits of the video are with the first step respectively: 1) be proactive, 2) begin with the end in mind, 3) put first things first, 4) think win-win, 5) seek first to understand, then to be understood, 6) synergize, and 7) sharpen the saw (Covey, 1990). By evaluating my chosen leadership theory: trait, along with the seven habits I gained a better scope of an effective leader. The overall results demonstrated that I was aligned with the Seven Habits principles ranging from very good to outstanding.

The 7 habits of highly effective teens by Sean covey is a book about helping teen go through their years in high school. All of the habits in the book help in one way or another. For example, Habit 5 - Seek First to Understand, then to Be Understood tells us to understand both points of view before reacting to someone's statement. For me, I’m going to talk about Habits 2, 3, and 5.

Delegating: This type makes the followers have most of the decision making and requires them to take most of the responsibilities for what happens. This style the followers have both the skills, ability, and drive to complete the task.

In order to be a successful manager you must empower all the people you work with and lead on a daily basis. Managers can do this in a number of ways. However, they cannot do this by micromanaging people. People want to grow and develop. They want to become part of something and see growth with in themselves. I hate being micromanaged and not given a chance to show any growth. I want to be empowered and given responsibility. As an assistant football coach my goal is to become a head football coach. Under the coach I have now I am not always given as much responsibility as I want. I want to grow and I want my head coach to delegate some of his responsibilities to me so I can learn. “I could leader knows how to delegate their responsibilities and help their peers grow and strive to be better” (Maxwell, 2013. p.93). Delegating your responsibility is an easy thing to do if you are a good leader. There is also a number of different ways one can delegate their responsibilities and benefits from delegating. Some of the benefits include improved decision quality, increased commitment, job enrichment, subordinate development and efficient time management. Throughout this paper we will discuss the benefits of each of them and how they can improve you as a manager/leader.

The last habit is win-win. I feel like I do a pretty good job at this one. I do care about the

Using the Strength Finders 2.0 Assessment, I was able to identify my personal strengths, which would identify my personal leadership skills. My strength assessment results where Harmony, Consistency, Empathy, Achiever, and Belief. This paper will identify each strength, how they relate to my leadership style and approach to leadership.