The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

One of the key aims of the Student Co-ordinator project was to build on and improve the training that was given by volunteers in previous years. We wanted to be able to deliver it in Khmer, the local language, so that it can be clearly understood by all our young people. We also set the challenge of improving the quality of the training and its relevance to the Cambodian context, and to deliver it to a wider range of local organisations.

Seng Ratha, the Student Co-ordinator, has been working hard on delivering a range of workshops themed around "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens", at NFC, at COLT and in Kor village as part of the Countryside Education Project. Ratha has thought carefully about the workshops, and tried to use examples from her life and Cambodian society to help the students understand some difficult concepts, as well as livening them up with some games and team activities!

Feedback from the students include:

"This training has improved my thoughts and helped me develop myself to be better"
"I want more training in the future because its really beneficial for me"
"I really want more training because it's really important for people to think deeply before taking any action."

Oh, and if you're wondering, the seven habits are:

1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win win
5. Seek first to understand then to be understood
6. Synergy
​7. Sharpen the saw