Essay: 7 Habits Of Effective Bank Branch Manager.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

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Write an essay on "The 7 Habits of  Highly Effective People.

Based on the bestseller book of Stephen R. Covey “The seven habits of highly effective people”, there are seven important habits that each individual should be following to achieve success in life. These habits are intended to enhance the inner skills of people and let them grow as a person as well as achieve success in professional life. This discussion is going to present these seven secrets plus an extra eighth secret and discusses the ways by which an individual can use these habits to become an effective bank branch manager.

The seven habits discussed by Covey are being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, first things first, think win/win, seeking knowledge to understand first, then to understood, synergizing and the seventh one is sharpen the saw (Covey 2014). These seven habits are the basal structure to achieve success and to serve a number of people through our work. Being a bank Brach manager, the primary duty is to keep the belongings of thousand s of people safe and secure. Several precautions are taken by the bank to keep these belongings safe (Jahanshani et al. 2014). However, if the environment within the branch is not cordial and there is no coordination between the staff, customers does not consider that bank a safe place to save their money or belongings. Hence, the role of branch manager is very important, as it is his responsibility to develop coordination between staff and customers.

The first habit of being proactive defines one’s responsibility or response ability. Proactivity cannot be practiced as it is the sense of responsibility that comes from inside. I can use this habit, as I am able to sense my responsibilities at times and can use resources and initiatives to achieve success. This habit is to help me with making decisions in direct, indirect and critical problematic situations. My leadership quality, organization and communication skills are determining factors, as without these I would not be able to understand the problem and concerns of my staff as well as my customers. The second and third habit is about making correct decisions at correct time and estimating the result before commencement of any new project (Barna 2013). It is my duty as a branch manager to understand the effect of any implemented scheme for the betterment of customers and coworkers. Before agreeing to any new project or scheme, I will be assessing the result of those projects. Furthermore, I have to make weekly and monthly goals for my team so that it is easier for them to track their success and I can get an idea of their weaknesses and lags, for amendment.

Applying the Seven Habits as a Bank Branch Manager

According to the fourth habit, I should be implementing different ways to motivate and inspire my team to perform better every week and month and share their experiences and accountabilities while achieving those to influence others to achieve the same. Fifth and sixth habit is to maintain balance between the organization and customers. Fifth habit makes me understand the need to listening to the problems of customers as well as my team staff. Being a proactive manager, I will be looking for ways to help my customers and giving accurate feedback. Whereas, the sixth habit makes me demonstrate different problem solving skills using different alternatives provided by the staff. Finally the seventh secret that demonstrates the full strength and highest ability of each individual of the team (Barna 2013). This habit will enhance my ability to motivate the spirit and capability of every team members to achieve ultimate success.

The abovementioned seven habits are to improve me as a leader and enhance my abilities to understand the needs of customers as well as my team members. Further, there is another habit demonstrated by Stephen R. Covey namely “the 8^th habit: from effectiveness to greatness”. This habit talks about the importance of human voice (Covey 2013). The human voice can be utilized to inspire, influence negatively as well as positively. People generally use their voice for spreading spiritual, body, mind and heart related talks. Whenever we are completely involved in something, all these four aspects are engaged in that task. This habit will provide me a mental, spiritual, physical and emotional strength to amend different changes in my organization. The habit will give strength to positive consequences and will inspire me to focus on fairness, respect, kindness, honesty, integrity and service. These will enhance my moral authority, which will help to improve the formal authority, leading to positive result. This is important as people nowadays go to office and mark their bodily presence. Therefore, Covey has mentioned ‘loosing voice’. This was the eight habits by which I will be able to enhance my ability as a branch manager to help the customers as well as team members.

References

Barna, G., 2013. The power of team leadership: Achieving success through shared responsibility. WaterBrook. https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Bx1prgRXl7wC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=importance+of+leadership+for+success&ots=9_j2RVHkV8&sig=aT52P9x52Kz6_FOaQqagBvxxYjo#v=onepage&q=importance%20of%20leadership%20for%20success&f=false

Covey, S.R., 2013. The 8th habit: From effectiveness to greatness. Simon and Schuster. https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LZyYKAb8Be4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=8th+habits+by+stephen+r+covey&ots=M-kXMbj-mx&sig=bichSNGAQPBSC4UF1tT7dYFDiAM#v=onepage&q=8th%20habits%20by%20stephen%20r%20covey&f=false

Covey, S.R., 2014. The 7 habits of highly effective families. St. Martin's Press.https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OmrfAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=7+habits+by+stephen+r+covey&ots=KPZb0We3MR&sig=B0_fN7Fafmdb8vOAfyXJJcc7s54#v=onepage&q=7%20habits%20by%20stephen%20r%20covey&f=false

Jahanshani, A.A., Hajizadeh, G.M.A., Mirdhamadi, S.A., Nawaser, K. and Khaksar, S.M.S., 2014. Study the effects of customer service and product quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seyed_Mohammad_Sadegh_Khaksar/publication/235791092_Study_of_the_effects_of_customer_service_and_product_quality_on_customer_satisfaction_and_loyalty/links/57a096fb08ae94f454eb4c9d.pdf