Post on 29-Jun-2020
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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• This module will examine the seventh of
seven habits we will introduce for
consideration as a tool to improve your
personal development and leadership.
• Each of the habits we discuss will require
your personal responsibility to reflect on
your development as we move from point
to point.
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• Habit 7: Sharpening Your Saw –
Production Requires Development of
Capabilities
– This habit encourages you to increase your
effectiveness through personal renewal.
– Setting and revising goals is an integral
component of this habit.
– Goals should be physical, mental, spiritual,
social and emotional.
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• Four Dimensions of Renewal
– Physical – health and wellness is key. We have
proposer nutrition, exercise, rest, and stress
management.
– Mental – reading, writing, and thinking are key
components for renewal.
– Spiritual – reading the bible, inspiring literature,
meditating, praying and spending time with nature
puts us in touch with a higher being.
– Social/Emotional- make positive contributions to our
key relationships.
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• Physical Renewal – Discuss how you
renew yourselves physically.
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• What will you start doing to improve in this
area?
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• Mental Renewal – Discuss how you renew
yourselves mentally.
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• What will you start doing to improve in this
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• Spiritual Renewal – Discuss how you
renew yourselves spiritually.
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• What will you start doing to improve in this
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• Social Renewal – Discuss how you renew
yourselves socially.
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• What will you start doing to improve in this
area?
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• Emotional Renewal – Discuss how you
renew yourselves emotionally.
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• What will you start doing to improve in this
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• What are the obstacles to renewing
ourselves?
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• How can we overcome these obstacles?
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• “As You Sow, So Shall You Reap” is a biblical principle
and a governing principle in this Habit.
• You will receive personal well-being if you remember
that what you put into the process determines what you
get out of the process.
– Renewal is a lifetime journey.
– Renewal changes you and gives you a greater:
– Sense of security and worth.
– Source of guidance and direction in life.
– Wisdom and perspective in life such as the prayer of serenity.
– Power and capacity to act.
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• In Summary…..
• Knowledge is power. We must be intentional
about maintaining and improving the things
that help us accomplish our work and other
desires.
• Set short, medium and long terms goals in
each area of your life and the dimensions of
renewal.
• Evaluate goals often and make adjustments
as needed.
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• Next Steps. This completes the 7 Habits to
live By component.
• 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
www.surveymonkey.com/cneonline/nldionl
ine/habitstoliveby8.
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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.