THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

By: Stephen R. Covey

If you are like most Christian professors, you have felt a burden for your colleagues and have wanted to reach out to them, to minister to them -- especially those closest to you. Perhaps you just haven't done so because you haven't been able to think of an appropriate way. One of the real keys of ministry is to address felt needs. Perhaps the universally perceived need of professors in academia is time management, effectiveness. What better way to minister to busy colleagues who are all under pressure to produce than to offer to help them become more effective. Dr. Joseph (Rae) Mellichamp, professor emeritus of the University of Alabama, created a set of discussion notes for the highly popular book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People that has proven useful in ministering to colleagues.

Inside-Out	A New Level of Thinking
Overview	The Seven Habits -- An Overview
Habit 1	Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision
Habit 2	Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Leadership
Habit 3	Put First Things First: Principles of Personal Management
Habit 4	Think Win/Win: Principles of Interpersonal Leadership
Habit 5	Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Habit 6	Synergize Principles of Creative Communication
Habit 7	Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal
Inside-Out Again	Final Thoughts