What do you Truly Value
"Values do not get communicated, they get revealed"- Paul Balmert
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about a seminar I attended dealing with determining one's strengths and how to improve them. The seminar was called StrengthFinder 2.0. I loved the seminar.
One of the exercises, about which I wrote about in a post, was on determining our one true value. We started with 10 values each. We were then were asked to get rid of half of them. This was hard. But then the instructors asked us to cut it down to three. There were tears and pain at this point. Lastly, the leaders asked us to get rid of two of the last three values. In the end we were left with a singular value that was the most meaningful for us. Some of us did not like the answer but the reality was that it was the one value which ruled us above all the other ones.
Paul uttered the quote of the day during a safety leadership seminar today. By connecting the two events, immediately I saw why many companies and leaders fail. The focus is on communicating but not necessarily having the value as "the one" value. It is the difference between words vs. actions. It is hard for companies to go through the soul searching exercise that I underwent. Impossible! So they settle for words.
Today's question is:
"What is the one value you have above all?"
"Values do not get communicated, they get revealed"- Paul Balmert
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about a seminar I attended dealing with determining one's strengths and how to improve them. The seminar was called StrengthFinder 2.0. I loved the seminar.
One of the exercises, about which I wrote about in a post, was on determining our one true value. We started with 10 values each. We were then were asked to get rid of half of them. This was hard. But then the instructors asked us to cut it down to three. There were tears and pain at this point. Lastly, the leaders asked us to get rid of two of the last three values. In the end we were left with a singular value that was the most meaningful for us. Some of us did not like the answer but the reality was that it was the one value which ruled us above all the other ones.
Paul uttered the quote of the day during a safety leadership seminar today. By connecting the two events, immediately I saw why many companies and leaders fail. The focus is on communicating but not necessarily having the value as "the one" value. It is the difference between words vs. actions. It is hard for companies to go through the soul searching exercise that I underwent. Impossible! So they settle for words.
Today's question is:
"What is the one value you have above all?"
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