Classes Based on Stephen Covey's, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Two class series — one for adults and one for teens — based on Stephen Covey and Sean Covey's books
HABIT 4: THINK "WIN-WIN"
Pages 169-209, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World, Stephen R. Covey, Golden Books, New York, NY, 1997
Pages 105-130,
THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEEN: THE ULTIMATE TEENAGE SUCCESS GUIDE, Sean Covey, A Fireside Book, Simon & Schuste, 1998
Pages 16, 66, The 7 Habits of Effective Teens: THE MINIATURE EDITION, Sean Covey, 2002
• No one likes to lose
• Win - Win, Not: lose - win or win - lose or lose - lose
• Key question for Habit 4: "Am I able to say no to the unimportant, no matter how urgent, and yes to the important?" “The root habit: mutual benefit, Golden Rule.”
• The Principle:
What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you.
• Win-Win is really the only solid foundation for effective family interaction
• “Moving from ‘Me’ to ‘We.’”
• Abundance mentality vs. Scarcity mentality (sharing or not)
• Let win in little, interact in big, offset competition
girls BB story
bowling story
teaching reading story
• “From ‘win-lose’ or ‘lose-win’ to ‘win-win’ with
‘win-win agreements’:” written: let govern
• 5 elements: desired results, guidelines, resources, accountability, consequences (no nagging)
Other resources
Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher and Scott Brown, Getting Together: Building a Relationship That Gets To YES