Defining Your Team Values Step One
Review the following list of words which describe various values. Circle the values that best reflect your team values. Don’t worry about the number of words you choose and feel free to add any other words that come to mind to this list.
Step Two
Review all the words you have circled and place a checkmark next to the words that are ‘most important’ to you at this time.
Step Three Identify your top five values. We know it’s hard, but it’s time to whittle your list down to your top FIVE.
Step Four
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Write a one sentence definition for each of your five top team values.
Value Accountability Achievement Acknowledgement Adaptability Aggressiveness Agility Appreciation Approachability Assertiveness Authenticity Balance Being the best Bravery Camaraderie Candor Capability Cheerfulness Civility Collaboration Commitment Community Competition Confidence Connection Considerateness Courage Courtesy Credibility Daringness Decorum Dedication Deliberateness Democracy Devotion Dignity
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Value Directness Discipline Diversity Duty Education Effectiveness Empathy Encouragement Energy Equality Excellence Expediency Expertise Exploration Expressiveness Fairness Faith Family Fearlessness Firmness Focus Frankness Freedom Friendliness Frugality Fun Genuineness Giving Global View Goodness Graciousness Gratefulness Growth Guidance Happiness
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Value Hard work Harmony Health Helpfulness Honesty Hope Humor Imagination Impact Independence Influence Ingenuity Innovation Inquisitiveness Insight Inspiration Integrity Intelligence Intensity Investing Invigoration Judiciousness Keenness Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Liveliness Logic Longevity Meaning Meticulousness Mindfulness Moderation Modesty
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Value Motivation Neatness Open-Mindedness
Openness Optimism Order Originality Peace Perceptiveness Perfection Perseverance Persistence Positivity Power Precision Preparedness Pro-activity Professionalism Prudence Reliability Respect Responsiveness Safety Stability Status Steadfastness Success Tactfulness Tolerance Trust Truth Understanding Zeal
What’s Your LPoV? A Leadership Point of View (LPoV) is a credo that encompassed not just your vision for your work, but your attitudes and beliefs about leadership. It expresses what is most important to you. It outlines what you expect of yourself; what, as a leader, you expect of others; and what they could expect from you. In addition, it serves as your road map for what actions you would choose in a crisis.
Elements of a Leadership Point of View Take a few minutes jotting down some notes in response to these three questions. 1. Who are the leaders who are compelling to you? What qualities do they possess? What did they do that you found inspiring?
2. Do you possess these qualities and abilities? If not, can you develop them? If not, what will you do about it?
3. How might you share (and model) this information with others?
via Madeleine Homan at choice-online.com Š 2014 Continuity Consulting
Build Trust through Sharing Personal Histories*
EXERCISE: Partner up. Take turns telling a little of your stories. This will help you feel more comfortable talking about who you are. Here are some simple questions to get you started: • Where did you grow up? •
How many siblings did you have?
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What was an interesting or difficult challenge of your childhood?
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What is your proudest moment or greatest achievement?
*This exercise is typically the first small step teams take to start developing trust. The purpose is to improve trust by giving team members an opportunity to demonstrate vulnerability in a low-risk way and to help team members understand one another at a fundamental level so that they can avoid making false attributions about behaviors and intentions. (via tablegroup.com)
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