Monday, November 14 -- Weeks 10 and 11 TRADITONAL CALENDAR

 

Shout out to Desdan for his hard work and his kindness to others!

I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend!

Weeks 10 and 11 are due today.  Remember that because these two weeks are about Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, they are due together.  

Week 12 begins tomorrow.  Ms. Parvin will be posting announcements beginning tomorrow.  Be sure you read your in box messages to learn more about her:)

Try to keep in mind the activities we are engaged in are not to just take up time, but are ultimately trying to help develop the thinking and skills to be more effective in your interactions in this life. These lessons are supposed to be taken forward with you as you go about your life. If you view them as such, you may end up getting more out of the class! 
Which of the 7 (really 8...see last week's announcements) habits will you work on first?  Will you choose a personal habit from 1-3 or an interpersonal one from 4-6?  Or will you sharpen the saw with 7?  What will you do to take your leadership journey forward?  
Action Steps:   Incorporate the habits with leadership online (Week 5)...as in all things these days, there is an app to help your live the habits.  The app is free and is called Living the 7 Habits.  If you on Twitter, follow @stephenrcovey and/or @livingthe7habit.

In Stephen Covey published a follow-up book to "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" called "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness."  Habit 8 is about using the 7 habits as a the foundation to find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.  Covey says that to you will find for your voice when you love what you do and you are comfortable with the 3 gifts you were born with:  the gift of freedom to choose, the gift of positive consequences for behavior, and the gift of mental, physical, emotional and spiritual intelligence.  Once you find your voice, you can achieve leadership greatness by modeling the 7 habits, continuing find your path, align your vision, and empower others to do the same.
Covey created the 8th habit to help what he calls the "information/knowledge worker."

“Do you believe that the Information/Knowledge Worker Age we’re moving into will outproduce the Industrial Age fifty times? I believe it will. We’re just barely beginning to see it…Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, puts it this way: ‘The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X or even 1000X but by 10,000X.’ Quality knowledge work is so valuable that unleashing its potential offers organizations an extraordinary opportunity for value creation.”

Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit

Message me in the course (use the inbox or send me a message from the gradebook), text/call me outside of Canvas at 919-435-2008, email me at melissa.dettman@ncpublicschools.gov, or message me using Remind.  If I do not answer right away, I will answer as soon as I can and definitely within 24 hours.  You can also get help using the Peer Tutoring Center -- click on the PTC quick link on our homepage.