7 Habits Of Highly Effective People: Habit 5: Seek First To Understand AUDIO CD  Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD Media: CD

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood® is the habit of empathic communication.

The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work! With Sean Covey's added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders. They include: Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Use this activity for students to practice skills involved with Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood. You can assign this to students virtually to either be done in the classroom or at home. You could also print the slides so students can work on paper copies. Students will be more successful with the activities if they have learned about the habit first.

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People: Habit 5: Seek First To Understand AUDIO CD  Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD Media: CD

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

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Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

As a former Communication Studies major in undergrad, I've noticed that my comm. background has heavily influenced my counseling and teaching style when working with my students. I try my best to teach them the importance and benefits of learning to communicate openly, honestly, and positively with each other. We spend a lot of time learning Heart Talk, but I was even more excited last week to teach them about Habit 5: Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood. I started my lessons in 1st grade with a review of the habits we'd learned so far right up to Habit 4 when we practice Heart Talk. The kiddos know now that they are supposed to use Heart Talk with people when they are feeling sad or mad or someone hurts their feelings. I told them that the next habit would help them listen to their friends if they ever did something that hurt someone's feelings (because we all make mistakes, but we are proactive people and we want to learn from our mistakes and make them better!) I told them they would be learning a new word--empathy--and that this habit would teach them how to listen with their hearts instead of just their ears. I read them the book How Do I Stand In Your Shoes by Susan Debell. This book is an EXCELLENT resource if you are trying to teach young children the meaning of empathy! The kids love it and are engaged throughout the entire book. At the end, there are some thoughtful questions you can ask to see what they learned about empathy and how to stand in someone's shoes. After processing the story with them, I planned to have them do a worksheet that they could fill out after interviewing a partner about something that happened to them over the weekend (good or bad). But, I just didn't have time for it because they go to related arts right after my lesson. Instead, I did a short version of emotion charades. I pretended to come into the room very sad and mopey (totally opposite of how excited I always am) and asked them to stand in my shoes to guess how I was feeling. Then, I reminded them of how having empathy was like listening with your heart, and I asked them what kinds of things they could do to help me feel better and to be kind to me if they knew I was sad. We practiced some more feelings: angry, embarrassed, scared and I was so proud at how well they all got it! This is one of my favorite lessons to teach and I was so happy with how well it fit in with Habit 5!

Over the summer I was able to do most of my 7 Habits curriculum planning with a few other counselors. While washing dishes one afternoon, it came to me to use the game telephone as an illustration for Habit 5: Seek First to Understand and Then to be Understood. The game doesn't work unless you first understand what the person was whispering to you and then try to make yourself understood to the next person. We played it twice: the first time with the rule that you could not ask the person to repeat themselves whether you heard correctly or not. The second time, we used our other habits to be proactive and set a goal to see if we could make it all the way around the circle correctly. The class figured out that the only way to make that happen was to allow the other person to repeat themselves as many times as necessary. Still, some classes were not able to accomplish the goal and it gave us a teachable opportunity to introduce the fact that even when we try, we aren't very good listeners a lot of the time. The discussion after the game was the best part because the game very clearly illustrated this habit and some of the roadblocks to good listening that Covey talks about in the Teens 7 Habits book. We were also able to see if the class was Thinking Win-Win and staying quiet and encouraging each other or not. I used this with 3rd grade and that seemed to be a great age for this game!

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Based on the work Stephen Covey. Listening Road Blocks. We all have times when we are poor listeners. Which “Listening Road Block” do you most often use? Explain why this happens. Journal Entry or Discussion Starter:. I’m All Ears.

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