Habits to Live By

A Virtual Personal Development

Course

Adapted from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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• Welcome to the Woodson Center’s Neighborhood Leadership Development Institute On-Line (www.woodsoncenter.org).

• This time series training and development course is for community and faith based organizational leaders.

• The course is designed to provide development in three areas: individual, organizational, and community.

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• Each program curriculum track has 12 workshops that are presented using social media to include GoToMeetings, YouTube and Black Board.

• Each program curriculum track will be recorded and placed on the WC’s web site for viewing in the convenience of your home or office. The address is www.woodsoncenter.org.

• Participants will be able to get Continuing Education Units for each program curriculum workshop upon completion of quizzes at the end of each module.

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• Tools you will need in this course:

– Access to a computer and the internet.

– Approximately 1 hour of time availability to

attend once a week online sessions and

participate in the virtual dialogue or the

recorded version.

– A pen or pencil

– A composition book to take notes.

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• The first discussion will be Personal

Development. This track has three

components: Habits to Live By, Career

Development, and Financial Literacy.

• We will first discuss Habits to Live By.

• Habits to Live by is adapted from the work

of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by

Stephen Covey.

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• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

represent a holistic, integrated approach to

personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

• The real beauty of the Habits lies in the

relationship among the habits and how

those habits positively impact individuals,

their co-workers, family and community.

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• What is a habit? There are three considerations.

• Knowledge that helps a person understand what to do and why to do it.

• Skill development that helps a person learn how to do a task or activity.

• Desire that influences the motivation of a person and causing people to want to engage in a task or activity.

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• Character – the weight of real

effectiveness in life lies in good character

– Trustworthiness

– Respect

– Responsibility

– Fairness

– Caring

– Citizenship

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• Personality is:

• What people first see.

• A representative of your world view or

outlook on life.

• The way you think positively or negatively,

openly or closeness.

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• Personal, organizational and community

leadership requires a constant

examination of your trustworthiness, how

you trust others, how you empower others

around you, and how your values,

attitudes and beliefs are in alignment with

personal, organizational and community

visions and missions.

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• Personal, organizational and community

leadership requires a balance of character

and competence.

• Leaders lead by example teaching others

and encouraging others to connect with

others to teach them.

• Leaders help others capture, expand and

apply.

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• Personal, organizational and community

leaders:

– Help others to understand the basic content of

ideas.

– Help others analyze and add personal

experience to knowledge.

– Help others to live helping others to share and

apply.

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• Personal, organizational and community

leaders learn principles, mindsets, and

behaviors that facilitate growth and

development.

– Principles are based on natural laws and

fundamental truths

– Values define the worth or priority we place

on people, things, ideas or principles.

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• Mindsets are what people think as they

perceive, understand, and interpret their

world.

• Mindsets help to create world views or

how we see the world.

• Mindsets create mental maps.

• Breakthroughs are often a departure from

our mindsets or mental maps. AIM HIGH!

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• Exercise:

• Think of a time or event in your life when you

experienced a breakthrough.

– What was the event or circumstance?

– What did you learn that changed your mindset?

– How did the change in your mindset affect your life?

– What conditions contributed to the change in your

mindset?

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• Michael Jackson once sang about “The

Man In The Mirror” to highlight how we see

ourselves.

• Often others reflect their perceptions,

opinions, and mindsets about us through

their words and behaviors.

• Consequently, we form images and

judgment about ourselves.

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• The mirror can sometimes be inaccurate

and limiting.

• Our real potential is often the result of

using our imagination to think out of the

box than using the mirror.

• Funkadelic once sang about “Free Your

Mind.” Personal development requires this

type of thinking for personal growth.

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• Do you know what a self fulfilling prophesy is?

• Often referred to as a “set up”, this type of

mindset can help or harm the people we are

dealing with on a day-to-day basis.

– If we feel negative about them, we will treat them

negatively and influence them to make mistakes.

– If we feel positive about them, we will treat them

super positively and may constantly challenge them

so that they can prove their worth.

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• The way we treat others influences their

behavior and performance.

• The self-fulfilling prophesy is what we

believe about ourselves and others.

• The self-fulfilling prophesy influences our

self-perception, behavior, and

performance.

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• Exercise – this activity is designed to help

you examine your mindsets about others

and the impact your mindsets have on

others. Think of a person whose behavior

at one time or another has got your

attention.

– What beliefs did you have about this person

that might limit him or her and/or strain the

relationship?

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• Exercise (Continued)

– How might an incomplete or inaccurate mindset about this person influence his or her behavior?

– Could your mindset and behavior toward him or her be part of the problem?

– Since it is possible that your mindset is not accurate, how could you change your beliefs about and actions toward this person to more accurately reflect his or her potential?

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• The exercises in this part of the curriculum are

designed to get you to start thinking about how

you feel, see and think about yourself and

others.

• The exercises are also a great way to help

create and reinforce desired behaviors or habits.

• You may find new ways to align your mindsets

and behaviors with principles to develop greater

impact and effectiveness.

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• In summary, to continuously improve our effectiveness in personal, organizational, and community development, we must constantly examine and challenge our mindsets.

• The most important mindset is to remember the importance of positive and trusting relationships with yourself and people.

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• Next Steps

• We have placed an exit questionnaire on

survey monkey for you to complete to

assess how well you have retained this

module’s information.

• Complete the survey by going to

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NLDIFE

EDBACK web link.

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• Thank you for engaging in this on line

presentation.

• Visit www.woodsoncenter.org for stories of

individual, organizational and community

leaders who are taking one step at a time

to make a difference in their community.

• Send us your stories and we will place

them on our virtual wall of iconic leaders.

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