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Values: The Great Motivators.
What Are Yours and Theirs?
A program about how to motivate with integrity
"Manny helped me generate the blueprint of my values. It was like receiving an owner's manual for myself to facilitate the pursuit of a
higher quality of life." - Director of Product Development, Polaroid
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A. What's the purpose of the values program?
To discover your most important values in the context of work and develop the skills to use those values to:
Make more effective values-based decisions.
Build values-based work environments that empower and motivate.
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B. What are the benefits?
Mental diversity is more highly valued: People who think and function differently are perceived as valuable resources.
Communications are improved: The staff has greater capability to determine what people really mean versus what they seem to say.
Work and career satisfaction are increased: Participants know how to do their jobs and choose careers in ways that are more likely to satisfy their values.
Conflict is reduced: People are more effective in identifying the causes of conflict and developing solutions.
Relationships are improved: The staff knows how to use their values to build work environments and teams that empower people to maintain integrity in their relationships.
Vision, strategy, organizational values and people's values are mutually supportive: People get passionate and committed to achieving the organization's goals because they understand how their own values will get satisfied in the process.
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C. Agenda
1. Guess your most important values
Purpose: Discover what it's like to think specifically about your own values.
2. Discover your five most important values in your world of work
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Purpose: Discover the most important values that guide you about what is and isn't worthwhile to you.
3. Develop the skills to apply values to a variety of work situations.
Purpose: Identify to what degree you're getting your values satisfied in a variety of work situations and what you might do to make it even better for yourself and your organization.
4. Discover another person's values during a typical conversation.
Purpose: Develop the skills to respectfully elicit values and use that understanding to satisfy mutual interests and reduce conflict.
5. Develop the skills to use the Motivation Model as an everyday tool.
Purpose: Learn about three beliefs that are required for motivation. Develop the skills to determine to what degree motivation is present. Learn how to determine what changes will improve motivation and when to accept that motivation is not possible.
6. Discover how you know your values are being satisfied.
Purpose: Identify the specific evidence that must be present for you to believe a value is being satisfied and learn how to use that to improve your own motivation. Learn how to use evidence to identify the hidden common ground that can enhance collaboration even when values are different.
7. Describe and develop a values-based work environment.
Purpose: Use the personal values of the individuals in a team to design and develop a work environment that will have the highest probability of getting people's values satisfied and increasing motivation while achieving organizational goals.
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8. Develop or modify vision, mission, strategy and plans.
Purpose: Use the values-based environment as a guide for considering vision, strategy, function, finances and relationships from a values-based perspective.
D. The character of the program
The emphasis will be on developing skills to apply what you learn, in addition to transferring information and knowledge.
Short lectures will be followed by individual and small group application activities that are thought provoking and often fun.
E. Manny Elkind's Values:
This is an example of how values influence thinking and behavior. Manny's most important values in the context of work are shown in the order of their importance to him.
1. Joy
2. Making a difference
3. Relationships
4. Integrity
Starting with value 4, I'm always starting with Integrity and searching for others who do the same. That's very important for me because when Integrity is present, then I know it can lead to great Relationships (value 3). When great Relationships are present, it's more likely that we can create the kinds of results that cause me to feel that I am Making a difference (value 2). When I am Making a difference, that's when I feel Joy (value 1). Joy is my most important value. It shows up as a body feeling and internal state, and it also has a spiritual aspect. The way my values work for me is that it all starts with Integrity (value 4) and without that, it's much more difficult to get what I want most of all, which is Joy.
F. Program options |
1-2 days |
4 days |
4+ days |
| 1. Discover your values and learn how to apply them in a variety of work situations. Note: Add time for values interviews. (Agenda items 1-6)
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| 2. Describe and develop a values-based work environment that would be most effective for your organization. (Agenda item 7)
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| 3. Align vision, strategy, organizational values and the individual values of the staff so they are mutually supportive. (Agenda item 8)
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G. Group size and makeup
The number of people in a program can range from 5 to 25.
Option #1 programs can include participants from a wide variety of levels, departments and functions because it emphasizes individual skills and applications.
All other options require an intact team or a combination of intact teams that work in close collaboration.
H. Situations for using the program
Management development
Team building
The opening session of an off-site strategy or problem-solving meeting
Developing teamwork in organizations that are merging
Developing a values-based work environment
Aligning vision, strategy, organizational values and individual values
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