Build the Foundation of Effective Leadership

Apply Proven Principles that Develop
Leaders with Character and Influence
According to many experts, in the next 20 years corporations will face a crisis as the current generation of leadership retires, leaving millions of key positions with no one to fill them. What’s worse, according to FranklinCovey’s Execution Quotient, or xQ data, less than 22% of employees feel engaged or committed to their organization’s goals. Consider the effects on your business if upcoming leaders lack clear motivation or who are unable to engage others towards shared success. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Signature Program teaches a natural process founded on proven principles that helps transform employees from contributors to true leaders.
Shape your organization’s future by shaping the people that will take you there. Invest in your future with the dynamic 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People Signature Program. This workshop will help the leaders of your organization develop the skills needed to improve personal and professional effectiveness, increasing trust and influence in their roles.

The future of any organization depends on the capabilities of its leadership. It is the leader who charts the course and engages resources in the right direction. Whether your current management is planning for future growth, or you’re filling the pipeline of future leaders within your organization, it’s important that these key individuals share the same focus, drive, and direction. With The 7 Habits for Highly Effective People
Signature Program from FranklinCovey you can develop leaders who foster trust and collaboration—and are focused on sustainable superior performance.

Overview of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits workshop helps participants learn how to improve performance and results
by pulling together at the highest levels of effectiveness and teamwork. During two days
of compelling, hands-on instruction, participants discover how to:
• Break ineffective behaviors and tendencies
• Create high levels of trust, unity, and synergy
• Develop strong, interdependent relationships
• Take initiative and responsibility
• Focus on key priorities
• Build Win-Win business relationships
• Communicate effectively
• Value diversity
• Practice continuous improvement

CORE COMPETENCIES
PERFORMANCE STATEMENTS –
Participants will be able to:
Habit 1: Be Proactive®
• Taking initiative
• Keeping commitments
• Taking responsibility
• Holding oneself accountable for results
• Exerting a positive influence on results
• Recognize the difference between proactive and reactive mindsets.
• Identify areas where reactive tendencies affect business results
• Develop proactive responses to business challenges.
• Describe situations in which “victim thinking” is affecting results.
• Describe personal roles in bringing about positive change in regard to
business challenges.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind®
• Developing vision
• Establishing/clarifying mission
• Setting team/personal goals
• Aligning goals to mission-critical priorities
• Focusing on outcomes
• Explain principles of mental/physical creation to ensure quality outcomes.
• Describe mission of the organization.
• Describe how personal work goals align to organizational mission.
• Set personal goals that align to mission.
• Explain how to set team goals that align to mission.
• Identify organizational/team/personal misalignments with business goals.
Habit 3: Put First Things First®
• Executing strategy
• Focusing on important rather than merely
urgent priorities
• Defining tasks to achieve key goals
• Eliminating low priorities
• Prioritizing tasks
• Using planning tools
• Break down work goals into key tasks.
• Assign priority to key tasks.
• Ensure that key tasks connect to organizational goals and mission.
• Prioritize work on a weekly and daily basis.
• Ensure that tasks serve long- as well as short-term goals.
• Eliminate urgent but less important tasks to free time for productive purposes.
• Demonstrate how to use planning tools to increase efficiency.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win®
• Improving business relationships
• Collaborating effectively
• Negotiating in a Win-Win mode
• Resolving conflicts
• Making Win-Win performance agreements
• Describe ineffective paradigms of human interaction (win-lose, lose-win etc.)
• Describe the advantages of a Win-Win paradigm of interaction.
• Practice Win-Win thinking to improve teamwork.
• Demonstrate how to conduct a Win-Win negotiation.
• Resolve a conflict in a Win-Win mode.
• Use Win-Win tools to make performance agreements.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,
Then to Be Understood®
• Communicating persuasively
• Defusing high-tension situations
• Listening effectively
• Providing productive input and feedback
• Describe how listening habits affect business relationships and results.
• Explain empathic listening and its advantages.
• Demonstrate empathic listening in a highly charged or conflicted situation.
• Demonstrate providing input and feedback in a way that builds relationships.
• Write and present information in a way that leads to positive action and builds
relationships.
Habit 6: Synergize®
• Leveraging diversity
• Making decisions/solving problems
collaboratively
• Valuing differences
• Collaborating creatively
• Developing innovative solutions
• Explain the advantages of synergy; of valuing and celebrating divergent
viewpoints and capacities.
• Describe the barriers to integrating diverse viewpoints.
• Describe opportunities for synergy in your own decision-making.
• Demonstrate how to solve a business problem synergistically.
• Demonstrate how to arrive at the innovative “third alternative” that transcends
one-sided solutions.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw®
• Achieving life balance
• Practicing continuous improvement
• Practicing self-renewal
• Explain how to balance work and life priorities.
• Explain the principles of continuous improvement as an everyday practice.
• Create a personal-development plan to renew individual productive capacity.