The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey

The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey Habit 8: Find Your Voice & Inspire Others to Find Theirs

Thinking about Leadership Task: Answer the following questions. • What is leadership? • Do you believe leadership is an informal choice or a formal position? Why? • Are you a leader? Why or why not? • What is your leadership style?

Inspiring Others to Find Their Voice - Leadership • “Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they can come to see it in themselves” (p. 98). • Covey talks about leadership not as a formal position but as a choice; a choice to deal with people in a way that will communicate to them their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.

Four Intelligences • Mental (IQ) - Our ability to analyze, reason, think abstractly, use language, and comprehend, etc. • Physical (PQ) - Your body runs your vital systems and harmonizes the functioning of the brain. • Emotional (EQ) - Self-knowledge, self-awareness, social sensitivity, empathy, and ability to communicate. • Spiritual (SQ) - Our drive for meaning and quest for connectedness with something larger and more trustworthy than our egos .

Organizations & Leadership • Organization Defined: • 1. An organization is made up of individuals who have a relationship and a shared purpose. • 2. Almost all people belong to an organization of one kind or another. • 3. Most of the world’s work is done in and through organization. So, organizational leadership is important!

Organizations & Leadership • Within organizations, Leadership is the enabling art. • The purpose of schools is education, but if you have bad leadership, you have bad education. • The purpose of medicine is helping people get well, but if you have bad leadership, you’ll have bad medicine. • Leadership enables (or bad leadership disables) other arts and professions to work.

Global Shifts • The Globalization of Markets and Technologies: • New technologies are transforming most local, regional, and national markets into global markets without borders.

Global Shifts • The Democratization of Information / Expectations: • No one manages the internet. The voice of the human spirit rings out in millions of unedited conversations on the WWW. • Real time information drives expectations and social will.

Global Shifts • An Exponential Increase in Competition: • Anyone with internet is a potential competitor. • The forces of free enterprise and competition are driving quality up, driving cost down and driving increased speed and flexibility.

Global Shifts • Free Agents: • People are becoming more and more informed, aware, and conscious of options and alternatives than ever before. People are more aware of choices in the employment market.

Global Shifts • Permanent White Water: • We live in a constant, churning, changing environment. Every person must have something inside them that guides their decisions.

Four Roles of Leadership • The Four Roles of Leadership: • 1. Modeling (conscience) - Set a good example. • 2. Pathfinding (vision) - Jointly determine the course. • 3. Aligning (discipline) - Set up and manage systems to stay on course. • 4. Empowering (passion) - Focus talent on results, not methods, then get out of people’s way and give help as requested.

The Voice of Trustworthiness • Part of Modeling is being trustworthy: character and competence • 90% of all leadership failures are character failures. • In a survey of 54,000 people asked to identify the essential qualities of a leader - INTEGRITY was the number one quality with over 15,000 votes. Second, with under 9000 votes was being a good communicator. Being an expert only had about 1500 votes. • Integrity and personal trustworthiness are vital for a leader.

The Voice of Trustworthiness • Integrity and personal trustworthiness are vital for a leader. • Integrity means you are integrated around principles and natural laws that ultimately govern the consequences of your behavior. e.g. Honesty is the principle of telling the truth. Integrity is keeping promises made to self and/or others. “One man cannot do right in one department of life while he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

The 8th Habit Assignment • Community Service Project Proposals are due July 19th. • Define the issue or problem- what are the causes, what is being done about it, what still needs to be done. • Describe your solution- create a small yet effective project that addresses the issue and contributes some part to what is already being done or what still needs to be done about it. • 2-3 pages in length (double spaced), cite your sources!!!

The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey