PARADIGM AND PARADIGM SHIFTS
HABITS
EFFECTIVENESS
HABIT 1: PROACTIVE
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Self Awareness.
Viktor Frankl.
Responsibility. *Response-ability*
Reactive V/S proactive.
Language.
Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence.
HABIT 2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
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Ensuring correct destination/goals.
The principle of “All things are created twice”
Personal leadership.
Rescripting and formulating your own mission
statement.
• Life support factors. Security, guidance,
wisdom and power.
• Centers in our life.
PRINCIPLE CENTER
Habit 3: First Things First
Habit 3: First Things First
• Time management:
– Generation 1: notes and checklists
– Generation 2: calendars and appointment books
– Generation 3: idea of prioritization
– Generation 4: don’t manage time. Manage
yourself. Persevere and enhance relationships and
accomplish results. Principle centered and
conscience directed.
• You must learn to say NO.
Habit 3: First Things First
• Becoming a quadrant 2 self manager:
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Identifying own roles
Selecting goals
Scheduling
Daily adapting
Living it
• Delegation can help you in spending more time in
quadrant 2. Take help of others. Do not do
everything yourself.
• Stewardship vs. Gofer Delegation
INTERDEPENDENCE
• Emotional Bank Account – Level of trust in a
relationship.
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Understand individual
Attending to the little things
Keeping commitments
Clarifying Expectations
Showing personal integrity: no duplicity
Apologizing sincerely in case of withdrawal from account
• Primary law of love and life: give yourself to one
individual rather than trying to please the masses.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
• There are 6 paradigms of human interaction:
– Win-lose
– Lose-win
– Lose-lose
– Win
– Win-win
– Win-Win or no deal
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
• Five Dimensions of Win-Win
– Character
– Relationships
– Agreements
– Win-Win Management Training
– Processes
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,
Then Be Understood
• Five forms of listening:
– Ignoring
– Pretending
– Selective listening
– Attentive listening
– Empathic listening
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,
Then Be Understood
• Diagnose before you prescribe
• Avoid autobiographical responses
– Evaluating
– Probing – asking questions from own frame of
reference
– Advising – giving counsel based on own
experience
– Interpreting – trying to figure out the person’s
motives and behavior based on our motives and
behavior.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,
Then Be Understood
• After understanding the other, make sure you
are understood. Ethos, Pathos and Logos.
• Communicate one on one with people close to
you.
Habit 6: Synergize
What is synergy?
The whole is greater than the
sum of its parts.
Habit 6: Synergize
• Openness and communication can lead to
significant improvement and phenomenal
results.
1+1+1=18 or 16 0r 8000
Synergistic Communication
• Opening yourself to new possibilities, new
alternatives, new options.
Synergy in Business
Habit 6: Synergize
THIRD ALTERNATIVE
Negative Synergy
• The key to interpersonal synergy is intrapersonal
synergy.
• Intrapersonal synergy gives us the internal
security to handle the risks of being open and
vulnerable.
• Insecure people clone others and mold them over
into their own thinking.
Valuing the Differences
• The essence of synergy
• Realizing that all people see the world, not as
it is, but as they are.
• Recognize perceptual limits and our bounded
rationality.
• Value the differences because those
differences add to one’s knowledge and to our
understanding of reality.
Force Field Analysis
• Sociologist Kurt Lewin
• Driving forces
• Restraining forces
• The driving forces encourage upward
movement and the restraining forces
discourages it.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
• The habit that makes all the other habits
possible.
• It's preserving and enhancing the greatest
asset you have – you. Investing in one’s own
self
Four Dimensions of Renewal
Renewing the four dimensions of our nature
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physical,
spiritual,
mental, and
social/emotional.
Physical Dimension
• Caring effectively for our physical body
• Eating the right kinds of foods, getting
sufficient rest and relaxation, and exercising
on a regular basis.
• This will preserve and enhance our capacity to
work and adapt and enjoy.
The Spiritual Dimension
• Provides leadership in your life
• Focus the sources that inspire and uplift
through meditation, prayer, listening to an
unknown voice.
• Spiritual renewal takes an investment of time
• It renews us, refreshes us
The Mental Dimension
• It is extremely valuable to train the mind to
stand apart and examine the world and its
realities.
• There's no better way to inform and expand
your mind on a regular basis than to get into
the habit of reading especially reading good
literature.
The Social/Emotional Dimension
• The physical, spiritual, and mental dimensions
are closely related to Habits 1, 2, and 3
whereas the social/emotional dimension
focuses on Habits 4, 5, and 6
• Emphasis on the principles of interpersonal
leadership, communication, and creative
cooperation-Public victory
Habit 7: Sharpening the Saw
• Balance in Renewal
Self-renewal process must include balanced
renewal in all four dimensions of our nature.
To neglect any one area negatively impacts
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rest.
• Synergy in Renewal
THANK YOU
TEAM MEMBERS
ANUM BAIG
GAUHAR BHATTI
HASSAAN KHALID