The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective
Managers

• 1 Proactivity

  • Initiative

  • Creativity

  • Resourcefulness

  • A reactive manager 

  • In a circle of worries he can't do anything about

  • Anxious for lack of resources

  • Proactive manager

  • Focuses on the inner circle where he can make a difference;

  • Finds the resources he needs

  • What resources can be developed?

  • What steps to take?

• 2 See the result

  • Start by imagining the end goal

  • Do not have ready-made plans and programmes, but make a goal for yourself.

  • Have a vision

  • Passionate vision

  • Clearly articulate the contribution you're going to make as a manager

  • 1 set aside an hour a week and polish the formulation

  • 2 Outline it to the boss and subordinates

    • Make sure it is known to all
  • 3. Be guided by this wording in everything you do.

  • This is the result I want to achieve.

  • and this is the contribution I am going to make

• Bad 

  • Complain

  • Criticise

  • Compare

  • Compete

  • Stand up for what is right

  • Meetings

  • No one understands why there is no goal, no time to waste

  • Email

  • Wasting time on it in the first place is stupid

• 3 Do what needs to be done first

  • Doing things regardless of what you may not like

  • Discipline

  • Consistency

  • Resign your feelings to your purpose

  • Time management matrix 

  • Urgent and important

    • Better entrust a crisis manager with the job

  • Urgent and important

    • Highest priority square

  • Urgent and unimportant

  • Urgent and unimportant

    • The most dangerous square

    • Need to give up things that don't lead to a goal

• 4 Win-win-win

  • Thinking along the lines of "Won-Win"

  • Manager

  • Employee

  • Supplier

  • Customer

  • A balance of sensitivity and courage

  • How?

  • 1 Be sensitive to team members 

    • Treat employees like customers

  • 2 Employees must be held accountable for their commitments 

    • Demand responsibility

    • Agreements can be signed

    • Result

      • Objectives

    • Resources

      • Methods and reports

    • How someone wins

      • Consequences if not

      • Evaluation criteria

    • These agreements are the manager's main job

    • From here on, the employee can examine and evaluate himself or herself and be held accountable

• 5 First understand, then be understood

  • Listens carefully

  • Seems to try to understand

  • One begins to listen to oneself 

  • A sense of self-worth emerges

  • Listening with the intention to understand

  • Not with the intention of responding.

  • This is empathic listening

  • Say nothing or give in

  • Especially in conflicts

  • Create a feedback loop

  • Talk about the quality of work with the employee

  • Meet with employee 1 on 1 

  • Telling what's good and bad about the job 

    • But only the facts

  • Then just listen to the employee and try to understand

  • Then suggest solutions

• 6 Synergy

  • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts if those parts are different

  • One head is good, but two is better

  • Active interest in other points of view

  • When they differ, rejoice, not endure

  • Learning as many sharp opinions as possible to make the best decision

  • Keeping to one narrow circle ruins creativity

  • Aiming for synergy into a habit

  • It is a process

  • 1 define a success criterion

  • 2 derive 2 opposite models of achievement

  • 3 find a new and better solution

  • It is not a compromise

• Good

  • Plan  for the week

  • Planning tools

• 7 Sharpen the saw

  • Invest in your employees

  • Make sure they use their main resources and don't burn out on the little things

  • Get to know your employees better

  • Find out what drives them

  • Questions 

  • Does the salary live up to expectations?

  • What do you enjoy doing?

  • What do you do best?

  • What would make the work more meaningful for you? How would you like to contribute?

  • Nobody wants to do meaningless jobs.

  • They want goals that

  • Ennoble

  • uplifting

  • Inspirational

  • Empowering

  • Awaken all that is best