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HABIT 6: SYNERGIZE Principle of Creative Cooperation

Habit 6: Synergize (7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

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Habit 6: synergize

Habit 6: synergizePrinciple of Creative CooperationI TAKE AS GUIDE THE HOPE OF A SAINT:IN CRUCIAL THINGS, UNITY ---IN IMPORTANT THINGS, DIVERSITY ---IN ALL THINGS, GENEROSITY.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSHCrucial things a matter of life and deathImportant things -- The nation is not affected by the diversity of religion, race, color not crucial to the existence of the StateAll things Crucial x Importance Agustinian Spirit: Charity (Generosity)

Agree to Disagree the essence of generosity

2WHAT IS SYNERGY?It is the highest activity in all life the true test and manifestation of all the other habits put together.It focus the four unique human endowments, motive of win/win, and the skills of emphatic communication. Thus, creating new alternatives something that was not there before.It is the essence of a principle-centered leadership.Four unique human endowments: self awareness, conscience, imagination, will3What is Synergy?The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

1 + 1 = 3 or more, not 2.

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Challenge: To apply the principles of creative cooperation, in which we learn from nature, in our social interactions.ESSENCE OF SYNERGYThe very way a man and a woman bring a child into the world is synergistic. The essence of synergy is to value differences to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses.Synergistic communicationHOW DO WE COMMUNICATE SYNERGISTICALLY?

+=NEW POSSIBILITIESNEW ALTERNATIVESNEW OPTIONSInsert the principle of Habit 2 which is to begin an end in mindIt is not an opposite but rather a way of fulfilling it.Synergistic communication enhances the end in mind by having this inward sense of excitement, security, and adventure that something significant is going to come up than before.

This creates the momentum towards more insights learning and growth9SYNERGISTIC COMMUNICATION VS HABIT 2It would show that the principle is an opposite of Habit 2 since it looks like it deviates the person from looking at the end.However, synergistic communication is in fact the fulfillment of the Habit 2.There is no assurance how synergistic communication will work out but it gives and inward excitement, security and adventure, believing that significant is going to happen than before. --- This is the new end that you now have in mind.It creates a momentum towards more insights, learning, and growth.HOW DO I APPLY SYNERGY?FACT:Most people do not really have the experienced even the moderate kind of synergy in their family life or in other interaction.Theyve been trained and scripted into defensive and protective communications or believing that some people cannot be trusted.SOLUTION:Synergy can be produced regularly, consistently, daily in people lives. But it requires personal security, openness, and spirit of adventure. (Habit 5)BRING UP THE VIDEO ABOUT WHAT IS SYNERGY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPROMISETHE 1 + 1 = 1 1/211SYNERGY IN THE CLASSROOM/ businessVIDEO: ABOUT SYNERGYROLE OF SYNERGY:Synergy tests whether teacher and students are really open to the principle of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.It is normal where the teacher or the student neither knows whats going to happen by the end of the semester.At first, theres that safe environment where people are allowed to be open and learn and listen to each others idea.Then, brainstorming, where spirit of evaluation is subordinated to the spirit of creativity, imagining, and intellectual networking.

ROLE OF SYNERGY:Then, it transforms the whole group because the excitement of a new thrust, a new idea, a new direction that is hard to define, yet its palpable to the people involved.Synergy is almost as if the group agrees to subordinate the old script and to write a new one.

CUTTING OFF FROM SYNERGYThere are times when most are synergistic, times that hung on the edge of chaos and for some reason descended to it. Sadly, people who are burned by such experiences often begin their new experience with that failure in mind. They defend themselves against it and cut themselves off from synergy.

Example: Its like administrators who set up new rules and regulations based on the abuses of a few people inside an organization, thus limiting the freedom and creative possibilities for many. It kills the whole spirit of creativity, enterprise, and synergistic possibility.THAT WHICH IS PERSONALIS MOST GENERAL.- CARL ROGERS

The more authentic you become, the more genuine is your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self doubts, the more people can relate to your expression, the safer it makes them feel to express themselves.APPLYING THE HABIT 4, 5, AND 6HABIT 4: THINK WIN/WINHABIT 5: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOODHABIT 6: SYNERGIZE

The creation of synergy will greatly influence excitement instead of boredom. People become very open to each others influence and generated new insights and options. A new understanding of the goal or challenge evolves. Difference were valued and transcended. A new vision began to form.THE REAL SYNERGYOnce people experienced real synergy. They are never quite the same again. They know the possibility of having other such mind-expanding adventures in the future.There is no exactly the same kind of experience of synergy but the essential purpose behind creative work can be recaptured.

Far Eastern Philosophy says: We seek not to imitate the masters, rather we seek what they sought, we seek not to imitate past creative synergistic experience, rather we seek new ones around new and different and sometimes, higher purpose.Synergy and communicationSYNERGY AND COMMUNICATIONSynergy is exciting. Creativity is exciting. Its phenomenal what openness and communication can produce. The possibilities of truly significant gain, of significant improvement are so real that its worth the risk such openness entails.SYNERGY AND COMMUNICATION

Lowest level of communication comes out of low-trust communication which will be characterized as defensiveness, protectiveness, and often legalistic language, which makes the even go sour.22SYNERGY AND COMMUNICATION

Middle communication is respectful communication. This the level where fairly mature people interact. They have respect for each other but avoid the possibility of confrontation. They understand each other intellectually but not emotionally.23SYNERGY AND COMMUNICATION

Synergy means that 1 + 1 may equal to 8, 16 or 1,600. The synergistic position of high trust produces solutions better than any originally proposed, and all parties know it. Even if it is short lived, the P/PC balance is there.24Fishing for the third alternative

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EMOTIONAL BANK27Compromise vs. SynergyCompromise creates insensitivity, neglect, or a bad priority decision on either part. It could be a source of contention for years and could even polarize the family.

Synergy creates communication between two parties until they come up with a solution that both feel good about it. Solutions that are better than either of them originally planned.Negative synergyHighly dependent people are borrowing strength from position power and they go for Win/Lose or theyre dependent on being popular with others and they go for Lose/Win. They may talk Win/Win but they dont really want to listen; they only want to manipulate.Insecure people think that all reality should be amenable to their paradigms. They have the high need to clone others, to mold them over their own thinking. They dont realize that the very strength of relationship is in having another point of view. Sameness is not oneness, Uniformity is not unity. It is uncreative.SYNERGY The essence of synergy is to value the differences.The key to interpersonal synergy is intrapersonal synergy, that is synergy within ourselves.The heart of intrapersonal synergy is embodied in the first three habits which gives the internal security sufficient to handle the risks of being open and vulnerable.By internalizing those principles, we develop the abundance mentality of Win/Win and the authenticity of Habit 5 (Seek first to understand, then to be understood).Being principle-centered makes us whole truly integrated. Valuing differencesVALUING DIFFERENCESThis is the essence of synergy the mental, emotional and the psychological differences between people. And the key to valuing those differences is to realize that all people see the world, not as it is, but as they are.The Animal SchoolOnce upon a time, the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a New World, so they organized a school. They adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming, and flying. To make it easier to administer, all animals took all the subjects.The duck was excellent in swimming, better in fact than his instructor, and made excellent grades in flying, but he was very poor in running. Since he was low in running he had to stay after school and also drop swimming to practice running. This was kept up until his web feet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so nobody worried about that except the duck.The Animal SchoolThe rabbit started at the top of the class running, but had a nervous breakdown because of so much make up in swimming.The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustrations in flying class where his teacher made him starts from the ground up instead of from the tree-top down. He also develop charley horses from over exertions and got a C in climbing and D in running.The eagle was a problem child and had to be disciplined severely. In climbing class, he beat all the others to the top of the tree, but insisted on using his own way of getting there.The Animal SchoolAt the end of the year, an abnormal eel that would swim exceedingly well and also could run, climb, and fly a little had the highest average and was the valedictorian.The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum. They apprenticed their children to the badger and later joined the groundhogs and gophers to start a successful private school.Force field analysisSociologist Kurt Lewin developed a Force Field Analysis which is any current level of performance or being as a state of equilibrium between the driving forces that encourage upward movement and the restraining forces that discourages it.

Synergy balances the driving and restraining forces. How? By using the motive of Habit 4, the skill of Habit 5 and the interaction of Habit 6.

All nature is synergyECOLOGYIt is a word that describes the synergism in nature everything is related to everything else. It is in the relationship that creative powers are maximized, just as the real power in these Seven Habits is in their relationship to each other, not just the individual habits themselves.

The more genuine the involvement, the more sincere and sustained the participation in analyzing and solving the problems, the greater the release of everyones creativity, and of their commitment to what they create.Although you cannot control the paradigms of others in an interdependent interaction or synergistic process itself, a great deal of synergy is within your Circle of Influence.Your own internal energy is completely within the circle. You respect both sides of your own nature the analytical and creative side. You value the difference between them and use that difference to catalyze creativity.You can be synergistic within yourself even in the midst of a very adversarial environment. You dont have to take insults personally. You can sidestep negative energy; you can look for the good in others and utilize that good, as different as it may be, to improve your point of view and enlarge your perspective.Exercise the courage in interdependent situations by being open, expressing your ideas, feelings and experiences in such a way that will encourage other people to open up also.

Theres always a synergistic third alternative when you are left with two alternatives yours and the wrong one. If you really want to work with a Win/Win philosophy and really seek to understand, you can always find a solution that will be better for anyone concerned.VIDEO: SYNERGYBefore we endTHANK YOUand REMEMBER: SYNERGIZE