The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey
Chapters 1-4
Presentation by Amy Fossett
Chapter 3: The Solution
Chapter 4: Discover Your Voice--Unopened Birth-Gifts
Chapter 2: The Problem
There is a two-part solution:
1. Find Your Voice
2. Inspire Others to Find Their Voice
1. The Freedom To Choose
- Humans have the ability to direct our own life and to make choices based on our values
- Our past and other people's opinions do not define us, they merely effect us
Inspire Others to Find Theirs
2. Natural Laws or Principles
Find Your Voice
- Inspire means to breathe life into another
- We should recognize, respect, and invent ways for others to discover and express their voice-physically, mentally, emotionally/socially and spiritually
- Principles are:
- Universal-they transcend culture and geography
- Timeless-they never change (ex. fairness, kindness, honesty, respect)
- Inarguable-they are self-evident
What Are Your Thoughts?
3. The Four Intelligences
How can leaders recognize, respect, and invent ways for others to discover and express their voice-physically, mentally, emotionally/socially and spiritually?
- We all have an inner longing to live a life of contribution and greatness
- We want to matter, to make a difference
1. Discover Your Voice by coming to understand your true nature and developing intelligence
2. Express Your Voice by cultivating the highest manifestations of these human intelligences-vision, discipline, passion, and conscience
(Covey, 30)
Chapter 1: The Pain
- Mental Intelligence (IQ)-ability to analyze, reason and comprehend
- Physical Intelligence (PQ)-the intricate systems of our body
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)-self-knowledge, self-awareness, empathy, and social sensitivity
- Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)-helps discern true principles and guides the other three intelligences
(Covey, 50-53)
- Organizations treat people as things; they only want the person's body and not their ideas, heart and spirit
- Organizational leaders do not value the whole person of their workers
- They do not see the value and importance of their workers and all that they can offer
- Leaders manage people the same way they manage things
- This causes people to see leadership as a position and therefore do not see themselves as leaders
In Your Opinion...
Which of the four intelligences do you believe is the most important for leaders to understand?Why?
Four Needs of People
Whole-Person Paradigm
- People in today's workforce are faced with a personal "pain" of feeling unengaged and overwhelmed by their work
- Most people feel as though the majority of their workforce contains more talent and potential than they are being allowed or required to use
- Workers feel the pressure to do more for less
- This is leading to workers being unsatisfied and unengaged in their work
Whole Person In A Whole Job
So why an 8th Habit?
- Being effective as individuals and as organizations is no longer optional, it is the entry price
- The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs (Covey, 5)
- Voice is unique personal significance, and lies at the cross point of your talent, passion, need and conscience