National surveys of thousands of employees have revealed a significant disconnect between effort and effectiveness. Key survey findings include:
- Less than 50% of team time is spent on the company's most important objectives
- Only 14% of employees feel they are contributing to company success
- Less than half of team members know the company's goals
Results of xQ Surveys conducted by Harris Interactive
These challenges are not limited to one industry, geographic location, economic group, or age group. They are universal across organizations. Workers face too many assigned tasks and too many competing priorities. People cannot identify key goals and, therefore, cannot deliver excellent results. Individuals and even entire departments lack open communication. Crises are often met with fast, less-than-effective decisions.
The good news is that changing ineffective behaviors to effective behaviors benefits everyone in your organization. The 7 Habits® can help you better manage yourself, learn to lead others, and unleash team potential. Attend this powerful 2-day workshop and discover the same principles that have led the world's foremost business leaders to the professional and business success they envisioned.
Who Should Attend:
Managers who are seeking to become more effective, build better relationships, and help their organization succeed.
How You Will Benefit:
- Define the contribution you want to make and what you want to accomplish as a manager
- Enhance your leadership abilities and reach your full potential
- Judge the goals your efforts should be focused on using daily and weekly planning
- Communicate effectively and raise the levels of trust and fulfillment within your team
What You Will Cover:
Habit 1: Be Proactive - Become a resourceful, innovative manager who quickly accomplishes goals and motivates team members to get things done.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind - Have a clear vision of what you want your contribution as a manager to be and shape your own future.
Habit 3: Put First Things First - Focus on top priorities and be regarded for follow-through and organizational skills; eliminate the unimportant.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win - Cultivate enthusiasm with performance measurements that satisfy both employee and employer goals; share recognition and success.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then Be Understood - Give honest, accurate feedback that develops trust and understand the physical components of communication and how they impact the message.
Habit 6: Synergize - Understand how differences can contribute to innovative solutions; maximize opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw - Maintain and increase effectiveness by renewing yourself mentally and physically.
Pre-Seminar Requirement
Before attending, you will receive The 7 Habits for Managers Warm-Up, which should be completed and brought to the seminar.
Materials Provided
- Participant Guidebook - a manual filled with examples and exercises
- Management Essentials - a book of resources for dealing with management challenges
About the Course Faculty
All course faculty are trained experts in FranklinCovey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® curriculum. Dr. Stephen R. Covey is a globally respected leadership authority. His international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, was named one of the 10 most influential management books ever by Forbes magazine and is the bestselling audiobook in history.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Identify and analyze unique challenges and opportunities managers face
- Explain the Maturity Continuum as a way to envision growth toward excellent managerial capability
- Recognize the importance of moving from dependence to independence to interdependence to become truly effective managers
- Define the 7 Habits of Effective Managers
Managing Yourself
- Realize the importance of managing from the inside out by examining personal character
- Recognize that only managers who manage themselves will earn the trust of their teams
- Appreciate that Habits 1, 2, and 3 are key to effective self-management
Habit 1: Be Proactive®
- Overcome the reactive mindset that hampers productivity and effectiveness
- Enlarge your Circle of Influence® so you can accomplish your goals
- Exercise ingenuity in coping with the universal managerial challenge of limited resources
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind®
- Define the unique contributions you can make in your role as manager
- Develop an outcome-oriented mindset in every activity you engage in, including projects, meetings, and presentations
Habit 3: Put First Things First®
- Eliminate the energy and time-wasting tendency to focus on crises and emergencies, and develop a long-term view
- Allocate appropriate time to planning, preparation, and crisis prevention
- Define a few specific, measurable goals that are critical to your contribution as manager
- Make progress on goals by translating them into manageable objectives and tasks on a weekly and daily basis
Leading Others
- Understand that effective self-management precedes effective leadership
- Recognize the importance of helping team members gain confidence in their own capabilities
- Appreciate that Habits 4, 5, and 6 are key to motivating and leading high-performance teams
Habit 4: Think Win-Win®
- Balance the interests of the team and the organization with the interests of the individual team member
- Motivate team members to superb performance by helping them manage themselves against shared goals
- Empower team members to manage and evaluate performance through the use of the Win-Win Performance Agreement Tool
- Build trust within teams by acknowledging good performance and addressing the emotional needs of each team member
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then Be Understood®
- Develop an accurate understanding of issues relevant to team performance by practicing empathic listening
- Give feedback honestly and accurately to improve individual and team performance
Habit 6: Synergize®
- Seek out and value divergent perspectives in dealing with team challenges
- Practice a collaborative prototyping approach to maximize creativity in solving problems and making decisions
Unleashing Potential
- Unleash the full potential of team members by treating them as whole people
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw®
- Tap into the multidimensional capabilities of team members to achieve team goals
- Develop the whole person
