The 8th Habit: The voice of trustworthiness

Teach Others
Chapter 8* is about modeling character and competence. There are three types of competence: technical, conceptual, and interdependency. Covey's types of competence are in line with Chickering & Reisser's physical/manual, intellectual, and interpersonal competence ("the three-pronged pitchfork").

• Technical (physical/manual): skill and knowledge to do particular tasks
• Conceptual (intellectual): see the big picture, strategically/systematically/tactically relate things to one another
  
• Interdependency (interpersonal): all people rely on others
  

Covey suggests that the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® are the best way to model character, or itegrity, maturity, and the Abundance Mentality because they are based on universal, timeless, and self-evident principles. He also discusses how a personal planning system can be a modeling tool, if you following the planning productivity process:

• Identify mission & values
  
• Set goals
  
• Plan weekly
  
• Plan daily
  

Report Results
In general, modeling character and competence is something I think and hope I do very well. This is a big focus we try to teach the orientation staff too, it is a major part of role modeling.

I am also enjoying re-reading the 7 Habits® while working through the 8th Habit Challenge. This chapter was a good overview and brief refresher of the content, but I enjoy reading the books concurrently and completing the 7 Habits Personal Workbook as well.

I've downloaded the free trial FranklinCovey PlanPlus software for Outlook offered in the book, and am going to try to utilize it to productively plan my weeks better. I used to use a paper FranklinCovey planner, and think I've lost some of the First Things First time management skills since I've went all-digital.

*from Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness as part of the 8th Habit Challenge