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Stephen R. Covey The 8th Habit:
From Effectiveness to greatness
Chapters 1 – 7 of Personal Workbook
(New York: Free Press, 2006)
Abstracted and Rearrange by: R. A. Hirmana Wargahadibrata,
Jakarta, February 2008
Chapter 6: Inspiring Others to Find Their Voice – The Leadership Challenge
Jadwal Masuk/Upload Blog Pribadi: 18 April 2008
Nama Mahasiswa: Nurhasanah
Nomor Registrasi: 1215041071
· Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves. The most common way of communicating this message to other people is through an organization.
· An organization is nothing more or less than a relationship with a purpose (its voice). You probably belong to many organizations. Marriages, families, community. In this workbook, the word organization refers to all the organizations you belong to, not just your work.
· The highest challenge inside any organization’s to set it up and run it in a way that enables each person to inwardly sense his or her worth and potential for the greatness and to contribute his or her voice to accomplish the organizations purpose. This is the Leadership Challenge.
· Organizations require both management and leadership. Either without the other is insufficient.
· You manage and control things, but you must lead people. You manage things such as inventory, costs, systems, processes, physical resources, information, time, and so on, because they don’t have the power and freedom to choose. (Stephen R. Covey 8th Habit, Page 100, Table 2, attached).
· The key to understanding organizational behavior is to study and understand human nature – to understand the Whole-Person Paradigm (body, mind, heart, and spirit).
· Significant problems cannot be solved with quick-fix programs of the month. You must comprehend the nature and root of the problem you face.
· There are two kinds of problems: chronic (long-lasting, persistent) and acute (critical).
· Begin by addressing the symptoms of the chronic problems in your organization. In business, you cannot succeed with stockholders until you first succeeded in the market place, and you can never succeed in the market place until you succeed in the workplace. In the family, you cannot succeed with other family members until you succeed with yourself.
· The Industrial Age response to chronic problems is for the boss to make rules, increase control, and demand greater efficiency. The Knowledge Worker Age response is to apply the 4 Roles of Leadership.
· The four roles help you inspire others to find their voices and achieve organizational greatness.
6.1 Having a Whole-Person Paradigm of human nature gives you an uncommon ability to explain, predict, and diagnose the greatest problems in your life and in your department or teams. Hen leaders possess inaccurate and incomplete paradigms of human nature, they design systems (i.e. communication, recruiting, reward, compensation and training) that fail to raw out the full potential of people. These systems misalign with the department’s, team’s, or family’s core mission, values, and strategy. On the chart below, circle the symptoms of chronic problems you see in your department or team. (Stephen R. Covey 8th Habit, Page 109, Figure 5.3, attached).
6.2 Each symptoms corresponds to one of the 4 Roles of Leadership. Complete the Table below to identify the antidote to the problems.
|
Whole Person Paradigm |
Symptoms of Chronic Problems |
Chronic Problems |
The 4 Roles of Leadership Antidote |
|
Mind |
Keeping belief that I’m not the same but still sing the same old song |
No Shared vision/values |
Really do the change, not only as lip service. |
|
Body |
Not feeling enthusiastic of doing work |
Misalignment |
|
|
Heart |
Worried, not calm |
Disempowerment |
Make a conducive environment |
|
Spirit |
skeptical |
Low trust |
Build trust then being trust |
(Stephen R. Covey 8th Habit, Pages 120 - 121, Figure 6.10, attached).
Stephen R. Covey The 8th Habit:
From Effectiveness to greatness
Chapters 1 – 7 of Personal Workbook
(New York: Free Press, 2006)
Abstracted and Rearrange by: R. A. Hirmana Wargahadibrata,
Jakarta, February 2008
Chapter 6: Inspiring Others to Find Their Voice – The Leadership Challenge
Jadwal Masuk/Upload Blog Pribadi: 2 Mei 2008
Nama Mahasiswa: Nurhasanah
Nomor Registrasi: 1215041071
· Modeling is the spirit and center of any leadership effect. Modeling is primarily done during or before the other three roles (path finding, aligning, and empowering).
· To be a model you will need to practice these four behaviors:
- Be a trim-tab
- Be trustworthy
- Build trust
- Search for the third alternative
· Trustworthy people (models or trim-tabs) can be easily identified because others within the organization seek opinions, respect their input, and value their experience.
· Modeling is not just the work of individuals; it’s also the work of teams. A complementary team is one that builds on each individual’s strength and organizes to make individual weaknesses irrelevant.
· Your voice of influence is how you respond to the inner desire to make a difference – to matter, to extend your influence. It is an attitude you have and a choice you make.
· The Greek philosophy of influence is an excellent summary of the process of increasing your voice of influence. Ethos is your ethical self – the part of you that models trustworthiness and build trust. Pathos is your empathetic self – the part of you that seeks to understand others. Logos is your logical self – the part of you that seeks to be understood by others.
The 7 Levels of Initiative shown here depicts the choices available to you when you are assigned any task. You choose which level of initiative to use based on how far the task lies within or outside your circle of Influence. Wait until told -> Ask -> Make a Recommendation -> “I intend to”. Do it and Report Immediately. Do it and Report Periodically. Do it. (Stephen R. Covey 8th Habit, Page 133, Figure 7.5, attached).
· It takes judgment and wisdom to know what level of initiative to exercise – what you should do, how you should do it when you should do it and most important why you should do it. If you choose wisely, little by little, your Circle of influence will expand because you will have built trust with other people.
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