Self-scoring 7 Habits Assessment | Habit #1 | Be Proactive

Welcome to the self-scoring habits assessment! It took long enough for me to put this into blog form (podcast first), but here are three questions for you to answer and rate yourself in on a scale of 1-6. Here are the questions! I am in control of my life (rate on a scale 1-6)I focus...

Stephen Covey’s Action Plan on Trust

As promised in my podcast, this is the action plan with behaviors 1-13 and here's an excerpt, along with the action plan, so you can figure out what needs to be done intrinsically. In the beginning of this 13 behaviors section, I used a personal challenge for you to make this material highly relevant and...

High Trust Organization Dividends – Increased Value, Accelerated Growth

Oh, yes! We're getting into high trust organization dividends now. Remember, when you add up the cost of all these taxes that are imposed in low-trust organizations, it's apparent what the connection is between low trust, low speed and high cost. Increased Value The second dimension is customer value. As a result of the last...

Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust: Season 4 – Episode 33 – Behavior #1 – Talk Straight

At one time I worked with a person who would never let you know where he stood on an issue until the decision was made and the wisdom of the decision was either validated or shown to be in error. You could never pin him down. However, once the decision was finally made and the...

Stephen Covey: Season 4 – Episode 32 – Second Wave – Relationship Trust

Welcome back to another blog, people! We're getting into another phase of Stephen Covey's Speed of Trust, and this one is going to be a very enticing one. It's time to start getting into the relationship aspect of things and breakdown what behaviors are. The truth is that in every relationship -- personal and professional...

Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust: Season 4 – Episode 23 – The Final ‘S’ in Tasks

The biggest questions of a lifetime for business owners. You know, I was thinking about the time Jack Ma had to fire employees because of the problems he was having with Ali Baba. Through what Napoleon Hill has said, "Applied Faith," he was able to see things through and work his way out of the...

Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust: Season 4 – Episode 20 – The A in Tasks

Here's the blog on the A in TASKS. Let's kick it off with important questions. What are your attitudes about work? ABout life? About learning? About yourself, your capabilities, and your opportunities to contribute? Are there more productive attitudes and paradigms I could embrace that would help me create better results? Huge questions for everyone...

Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust: Season 4 – Episode 16 – Choose Abundance

Abundance means that there is enough for everybody. The opposite --scarcity -- says that there is only so much to go earound, and if you get it, I won't. While scarcity may be a reality in some areas (such as competitive sports or forced grading curves), in most of the important things in life -...

Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust: Season 4 – Episode 13 – Agenda & Behavior

The agenda generally inspires the greatest trust is seeking mutual benefit -- genuinely wanting what's best for everyone involved. It's not just that you care about others; you also genuinely want them to win. Yes, you're seeing a win for yourself; that's natural, desirable, and to be expected. But you're also seeking a win for...

Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust: Season 4 – Episode 12 – What is Intent?

Motive. Motive is your reason for doing something. It's the "why" that motivates "what." The motive that inspires the greatest trust is genuine caring -- caring about people, caring about purposes, caring about the quality of what you do, caring about society as a whole. Think about it: Are you going to trust someone who...