The 7 habits of Highly Effective Management

In project management it’s crucial that the manager of the project has all the needed management skills to guide the project to a success. A project manager therefore needs to possess different personal characteristics to achieve this. The book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People focusses on how to improve your habits to be more effective as a person in your personal and professional life. These habits can be applied to project management as well. This article will give an in-depth view of how each of these habits can be useful for managers working in project management.

The book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a self-help book written by American Author Stephen Covey. The first edition was published in the 1989 and since then more than 40 million copies has been sold worldwide. In this book Stephen Covey focuses on an inside-out approach to achieve success both personal and business wise. This is achieved by following the seven habits: be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the edge. By using these steps within project management, managers can improve their leadership role and ensure that project will be managed successfully.

The 7 habits

The book The 7 habits of Highly Effective Management focusses on a inside out approach, meaning that you aren't following an instruction but actually creates habits to live your most effective life possible. This is done by following the 7 habits described in the book, the first three habits focus on you as a person and is called your private victory. The Following three habits are focused on you working with others and is called the public victory. Lastly, the seventh habit focusses on maintaining and constant improvement of the learned habits. This ensures you will constantly improve your effective life.

According to Covey you need to balance Production and Production capacitary to get the most out of your life. This is also called the P/PC balance principle. This concept is based on having a balance between Production(P) and Production Capacity(PC) as a person. This means

Private Victory

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

Habit 3: Put first things first

Public Victory

Habit 4: Think win/win

Habit 5: Seek first to Understand, then to be understood

Habit 6: Synergize

Renewal

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Application to Management

Mention the book for management, there is a separate one.

References

Annotated Bibliography

Covey, S. R. (2020). The 7 habits of Highly effective people. Revised edition, UK: Simon & Schuster,

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