Effective Business Practice - Discussion Board Questions
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db.- DB7 In each quadrant, list 4-5 activities you experience at work or at home. Then, answer these two questions: What feelings do you experience in each quadrant? What is the long-term impact of living in each quadrant on health, productivity, and your relationships?
- DB8 When Covey polled a group of workers asking how they much time was spent in Quadrants III and IV, the workers answered 40%. What is the impact of that number on productivity? What is the emotional and psychological cost of that number? Provide 3-4 examples of activities you have seen at work that are south of the line on the time matrix.
Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey, Fireside, 1998. Effective Business Practice
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- DB12 Provide a business example of each paradigm from your own life. You may want to think of times when you were a customer. Four of these paradigms come from scarcity and two paradigms come from abundance. Which paradigms come from scarcity and which come from abundance?
- DB13 On page 96 of your guidebook, draft an agreement that would be beneficial. You will need to draft this from your own perspective, anticipating as best you can the perspective of the other person. You may want to start by creating a T-chart.
- DB15 You read about the five poor listening styles (spacing out, pretend listening, selective listening, word listening, self-centered listening) in your reading for this habit. Which of these styles gives you the most difficulty? For one day, don't do it! How did it go? What did you learn?
- DB16 With the increased use of email, voice mail, and cell phones, our communication is rapidly moving away from face-to-face communication styles. What impact does that have on you? What impact will that have on business transactions?
- DB17 Think about what empathic listening does to the emotional bank account between a supervisor and a subordinate. Think about how people respond when they feel their boss really cares. Discuss and provide an example of the importance of Habit 5 (Mutual Understanding) for someone in a leadership position.
- DB18 "In the business world, what happens when a work group is made up of people who are all the same fruit? How can including and celebrating different fruit enhance the productivity of a work group?"
- DB19 Think about a situation where you think you have achieved synergy. Check your situation against the steps of the Third Alternative (My Way: Seek to be understood by sharing your ideas.) Share your situation on the discussion board.
- DB20 How would you define "Public Victory" in the workplace? What difference does it make to your work or personal life if you've won the Public Victory?
- DB22 How we maintain each dimension is different for each one of us. Share some of the activities you do, how you do them, and why you do them. Are any of the activities particularly exciting to you? How do you maintain balance? List some of the things you do in each of the Four Dimensions.
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