Four tools leaders can use to uncover their deeper values
<p>‘As a leader, you first need to define your values, and then use them to guide your decisions and behaviour.’</p>
<p>Sounds easy, right?</p>
<p>While the principle is sound, I find that in practice many leaders struggle to stop, pause, and reflect in ways that reveal underlying values and sources of meaning in their lives.</p>
<p>I recently had a conversation with an executive about how to explore and give shape to his underlying values. In the process of our discussion, I shared with him several tools/exercises that I’d like to profile here, in case they help others with their introspection.</p>
<h1>Core values list</h1>
<p>This <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o848jwizlkpzagv5jnjpp/Core-Values.docx?rlkey=v9pctxqpf38bpmh7t8uhh602q&dl=0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">sheet </a>provides a list of numerous core values. Leaders might first start an exploratory process by ‘free form’ listing all the values that seem important to them, and then using this list to see if they missed anything important.</p>
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