#485: Habits That MAKE or BREAK Your Career with Todd Davis, Author, Senior Leadership Consultant, & 7 Habits Content Expert
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What are the most important habits for career success?
And so how do we learn to prioritize and determine what are the most important things? I can't do it all. Nobody can do it all. So how do effective people decide what am I going to accomplish this day, this week, and what am I going to be okay with not getting to? In this age of technology, that's one of the most important questions I think we can figure out for ourselves.
Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals. I'm ready for my closeup. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back with us this week. Okay. I'm really excited for you to meet our guest today. Todd Davis is a senior leadership consultant, seven habits, content expert, and thought leader at Franklin Covey with over 35 years of experience in human resources, talent development, and executive recruiting. As the former chief people officer and executive vice president, Davis was responsible for the global talent development in over 40 offices, reaching 160 countries. Additionally, he authored and co-authored Wall Street Journal bestselling books, including Get Better, 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work, and Everyone Deserves a Great Manager. Todd, thank you so much for being here today.
Well, thanks for the invitation. And maybe we could just read that over again. That felt really good. I love being introduced.
It's so funny. Everybody always loves the bio. I always think it's so funny. It's like our highlight reel.
Well, you're very gracious. Thank you very much. And thanks for inviting me.
Well, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is an iconic book. Can you give us, obviously, you are the master at all this. Why is it so powerful and why is it so timeless?
Why are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People still relevant?
Yeah, thanks for asking. So as you mentioned, I've been with FranklinCovey. I've been with them for 29 years now. And I first read Seven Habits about 31 years ago. It was first published in 1989, so about 35 years old. And if I were new listening about this and never heard of seven habits, I might think, OK, well, that's great. But 35 years old, what am I going to learn from that? But to your question, Heather, it is the seven habits are based on principles of effectiveness. Dr. Covey, Stephen R. Covey, who made the point who wrote the book and made the point always that he didn't invent the habits. What he did was. watch individuals like heather and other people who were so effective in their roles and teams and organizations how effective they were and watched what do they do on a consistent basis to get not just get any results but get the results they're really seeking and then he put those principles into a context that we could discuss them and talk about them and so all of that is to say because these are based on principles of effectiveness they are as relevant today if not more so than they were when dr covey first wrote about them
It's just amazing to me that they seem pretty simplistic. I'd love it if we could get into actually talking about the seven principles and understand why each one is so powerful.
You bet. Happy to do that. One other thing that you just brought to mind when we talked about irrelevancy, I was out delivering a keynote two weeks ago now, and a gentleman came out to me after. He was probably in his mid-50s, and he said, Todd, I got to tell you, my son just graduated college in Portland. And he called me two nights ago and said, Dad, I just read the most amazing book. Have you ever heard of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? And the gentleman's name was Ross. We both laughed. But in addition to laughing, I just thought, isn't it amazing how timeless these are? You know, this recent college grad is reading is going, wow, this is going to make a huge difference in my life.
So to give a quick overview, we'll do the Reader's Digest condensed version for those who are new to Seven Habits. The seven habits, the whole intent of the seven habits is to become even more effective than we are right now. And to become effective, we want to reach this maturity level of interdependence. So they're built around a framework we call the maturity continuum.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the most important habits for career success?
0:00–1:37
2
Why are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People still relevant?
1:37–6:48
3
How can we be proactive in our responses?
6:48–8:59
4
What is the significance of beginning with the end in mind?
8:59–11:54
5
How do you build trust and win-win relationships?
11:54–30:17
6
What role does AI play in today's work environment?
30:17–38:13
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