Recent national surveys of thousands of employees across multiple industries have disclosed significant workplace effectiveness challenges. Research data reveals critical issues affecting organizational performance and employee satisfaction:
- Less than 50% of team time is dedicated to the company's most important strategic objectives
- Only 14% of employees feel they are actively contributing to company success
- Fewer than half of employees understand the company's core goals and strategic direction
Results from xQ Surveys conducted by Harris Interactive
These challenges are not confined to specific industries, geographic regions, economic sectors, or employee age groups. They represent widespread organizational issues affecting companies of all types and sizes. Workers receive too many competing assignments and conflicting priorities that fragment attention and effort. Without clarity about key goals, employees struggle to deliver excellent results despite working diligently. Communication breakdowns isolate individuals and entire departments from crucial information. Crisis management takes precedence over strategic planning, forcing organizations into reactive mode with quick decisions that often prove less effective than planned approaches.
The encouraging news is that transforming ineffective behaviors into effective ones benefits everyone within an organization. The 7 Habits framework provides proven principles that help individuals manage themselves more effectively while simultaneously learning leadership skills to guide others. This powerful 2-day workshop reveals the same foundational principles that have enabled the world's most successful business leaders to achieve professional excellence and realize their ambitious career objectives. Participants leave with both conceptual understanding and practical tools ready for immediate application.
Who Should Attend:
Managers and supervisors seeking to become more effective leaders, build stronger professional relationships, and contribute meaningfully to organizational success.
How You Will Benefit:
- Clearly define the meaningful contribution you want to make and the specific accomplishments you want to achieve as a manager
- Strengthen your leadership abilities and unlock your full professional potential
- Apply systematic planning methods to focus your efforts on goals that matter most
- Communicate with greater clarity and confidence to increase trust and fulfillment within your team
- Develop yourself as a leader who inspires high performance and brings out the best in others
What You Will Cover:
Habit 1: Be Proactive - Develop resourcefulness and innovation to accomplish goals quickly. Learn to energize team members and motivate action toward meaningful objectives. Move beyond reactive patterns to take initiative and influence outcomes.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind - Create a clear personal and professional vision of what you want your contribution as a manager to be. Shape your future direction intentionally rather than allowing circumstances to dictate your path.
Habit 3: Put First Things First - Identify and maintain focus on top priorities with follow-through and organizational excellence. Eliminate time-wasting activities and develop the discipline to do what matters most. Distinguish between urgent and important.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win - Cultivate genuine enthusiasm through performance standards that satisfy both employee needs and employer objectives. Practice shared recognition and collaborative success rather than zero-sum competition.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then Be Understood - Provide honest, accurate feedback that builds trust and develops employee capabilities. Master the physical components of communication and understand how they affect message reception.
Habit 6: Synergize - Leverage differences as catalysts for innovative solutions. Maximize the value of diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds. Create environments where creative problem-solving flourishes through collaboration.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw - Maintain and continually increase your leadership effectiveness through ongoing personal renewal, both mentally and physically. Balance multiple life dimensions to sustain peak performance.
Pre-Seminar Requirement:
Before attending, participants receive "The 7 Habits for Managers Warm-Up" materials, which must be completed and brought to the seminar for reference and discussion.
Attendees Will Receive:
- Participant Guidebook featuring comprehensive examples and practical exercises for workplace application
- Management Essentials, a resource guide for addressing common management challenges and scenarios
Special Feature:
All faculty members are certified experts trained in FranklinCovey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" curriculum. Dr. Stephen R. Covey is an internationally recognized thought leader in organizational leadership and personal effectiveness. His bestselling book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" was recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the 10 most influential management books ever published. The accompanying audiobook edition achieved bestselling status as the highest-selling audiobook in history, demonstrating the profound impact of these timeless principles.
Detailed Course Outline:
Introduction:
- Identify and analyze the unique challenges and opportunities that managers face in complex organizations
- Explain the Maturity Continuum framework as a roadmap to vision growth toward excellent managerial capability
- Recognize the critical importance of moving from dependence through independence to interdependence for true managerial effectiveness
- Define and contextualize the 7 Habits of Effective Managers within your organizational environment
Managing Yourself:
- Understand the fundamental principle of managing "from the Inside Out" through examining your personal character and values
- Accept that managers who successfully manage themselves earn the deepest trust from their teams
- Learn that Habits 1, 2, and 3 provide the foundation for all effective self-management practices
Habit 1: Be Proactive:
- Overcome the reactive mindset patterns that constrain productivity and limit your effectiveness as a leader
- Expand your Circle of Influence through deliberate action and intentional focus on controllable factors
- Develop creative problem-solving and ingenuity in addressing universal managerial challenges like limited resources
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind:
- Clearly define the unique contributions you can make in your specific role as manager
- Cultivate an "Outcome-Oriented" mindset that guides every activity, from major projects to meetings to presentations
Habit 3: Put First Things First:
- Eliminate energy-draining and time-wasting patterns of focusing on crises and emergencies by developing a long-term strategic view
- Allocate adequate time to planning, preparation, and proactive crisis prevention rather than reactive crisis management
- Define a few specific, measurable goals that are critically important to your contribution as a manager
- Make tangible progress on goals by translating them into manageable, achievable objectives and specific daily and weekly tasks
Leading Others:
- Recognize that effective self-management must precede and support effective leadership of others
- Accept the leadership responsibility of helping team members develop confidence in their own capabilities
- Understand that Habits 4, 5, and 6 provide the essential framework for motivating and leading high-performance teams
Habit 4: Think Win-Win:
- Balance organizational and team interests with individual team member interests and aspirations
- Motivate team members to outstanding performance by helping them self-manage against shared, mutually agreed-upon goals
- Empower team members to manage and evaluate performance through the Win-Win Performance Agreement tool
- Build trust within teams by consistently acknowledging good performance and addressing the emotional needs of each team member
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood:
- Develop a deep understanding of issues relevant to team performance through practicing empathic listening
- Provide feedback honestly and accurately to improve both individual and team performance outcomes
Habit 6: Synergize:
- Seek out and value divergent perspectives in dealing with team challenges and strategic decisions
- Practice collaborative prototyping approaches to maximize creativity in solving problems and making decisions
Unleashing Potential:
- Unleash the full potential of team members by treating them as complete, multifaceted people with varied capabilities and aspirations
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw:
- Tap into and activate the multidimensional capabilities of all team members to achieve ambitious team goals
- Support continuous development of the "Whole Person" across physical, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions
