Personal Skills and Effectiveness

Personal “excellence” according to author Stephen Covey can be achieve through the ‘Inside-Out’ approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness.  It means to start first with self and with the most inside part of self that is your:

• paradigms
• character and
• motives.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories.  Making and keeping promises to ourselves precede making and keeping promises to others.  It is futile to put personality ahead of character and try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

 

“Personal effectiveness” as quoted from Covey’s book “7 Habits of Highly Successful People” is the foundation upon which other skills, abilities, and competencies are developed.  We need to spend quality time in thinking about the beliefs that we hold, the values and attitudes that have shaped us to date and the personal goals that we have for ourselves.

 

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April 30, 2012 by Dr. Jon Warner