Managerial Efficiency: “Sharpen the saw” by S. Covey
Stephen Covey’s recommendation “Sharpen the saw” emphasizes the importance of continuous self-improvement and renewal. It involves regularly investing in personal growth across four dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. By maintaining balance and fostering growth, individuals enhance their effectiveness and sustain long-term success and well-being.
What is Managerial Efficiency?
The managerial efficiency is a key aspect of the life of a manager today. There are very basic tools or items (7 for Stephen Covey) that can help managers to become more efficient.
As an introduction please find my apologies for my English as I am a non-native English speaker.
Since I just found this gentleman fascinating, decided to share his video. ! He’s over 77 now . Though still showing so much enthusiasm about his job / work / passion.
Inspiration from Ken Blanchard
I feel the same today. Since I’m really blessed with the pleasure that my new job. I work as an executive coach and management trainer . Therefore I Hope I will keep having this passion as long as he can.
Actually, he reminds me of another very active person that I used to read a lot, whose name is Stephen R.
Covey. Thus I remember his outstanding book “The seven habits of the highly efficient people” mentioning sharpen the saw.
How is the recommandation “Sharpen the saw”, useful for leaders?
Stephen Covey’s “Sharpen the Saw” recommendation is useful for leader training as it emphasizes continuous personal development. By encouraging leaders to invest in their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, they become more resilient, adaptable, and capable of leading effectively in dynamic environments.
Moreover, this holistic approach to self-renewal helps leaders maintain a balanced perspective, fostering creativity and better decision-making. By prioritizing their own growth, leaders model lifelong learning for their teams, inspiring others to pursue self-improvement.
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Managerial Efficiency is built around seven habits:
- Being reactive ;
- having the goals in mind from the start,
- Giving priority to priorities ;
- Thinking win/win ;
- Seeking first to understand then to be understood ;
- Working in synergy ;
- sharpening one’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual faculties.
Work hard or play hard, and get managerial efficiency
What are the recommendations from Ken Blanchard to be at the right job ? Actually, the “saw” of Ken Blanchard is still very sharp !
Goals
– Improve the ability to manage oneself by taking responsibility for one’s choices and focusing on the essential.
– Establish relationships based on mutual trust.
– Increase the involvement of each individual to work more effectively in a team.
These significantly improves performance.
Framework of managerial efficiency
Unlike traditional managerial approaches, which often resemble the instrumentalization of employees, Stephen Covey, in his world bestseller, traces major avenues for transforming the manager from within.
It is this progressive transformation, articulated around the seven habits proposed by the author, that will eventually pull his entire team upwards.
This article has been written by Marc Prager.