A SEQUAL TO APPLIED LEADERSHIP 101: WHAT ARE YOUR CORE VALUES?

Hi there family and friends!

Long time no speak, but thank you for your patience! I promise I didn't forget about my leadership development project regarding the Social Change Model provided below. 

Recall that each blog post of mine will be based on components that make up the Social Change Model. There are 3 components (perspectives) that make up the model. They are the values of the individual, group, and society/community. Each perspective is comprised of various subcomponents. I will be blogging about each subcomponent and each subcomponent will have some type of interactive leadership development activity incorporated into it. 

Let's begin with the individual perspective by focusing on the Consciousness of Self. In this leadership development activity, I hope to help you find out what your core personal values are.

Keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the creative process of leadership is change--whether it be a good or bad change it depends on your personal, logical view of what is "good" and "bad." For instance, some people today think that our our current President is a great leader for our nation, because maybe they share similar values with Donald Trump. Others may disagree, however, because they may hold completely different values than Donald Trump and may believe that he's making our nation worse.

First of all, what is leadership TO YOU? What does leadership look like TO YOU? What characteristics/traits do YOUR role models possess? What is it about your role models that you look up to for? Why do you look up to them? Could it be, because you both share common or similar values? Possibly. On second thought, what are YOUR PERSONAL values? On another thought, what are YOUR PERSONAL top 3 values? Don't know? That's okay. Consider a list of personal core values listed below.

If you’d like to get involved with me in my project, please feel free to print out this chart by clicking right here. (P.S. I added a few more values to the chart)

After printing out the list of values, carefully follow these steps:

(You may want to do this activity with a group of at least 4 people)

1.) Circle and pick YOUR PERSONAL top ten core values.

2.) Of your selected 10 personal corse values, eliminate 3 of them.

3.) Of the 7 values, eliminate 2 of them

4.) Of the 5 values, eliminate another 2 values

5.) Discuss with someone how it felt narrowing down your top values. What was their technique or logical explanation for why they eliminated certain values over others? While explaining, consider the following question: Are your values congruent in your actions? In other words, do your actions and/or habits show that you’re a person who highly values honesty, communication, optimism, collaboration, flexibility, etc? Do most of your actions reflect your personal values?

To find out, write out what your general week is like. For instance:

Sunday - do laundry, clean up my house, prepare for work for the week, workout
Monday - go to work, workout, etc.

After writing out your general week, take a moment and observe it. Ask yourself "Are my actions congruent with my core values?"

You know what they say, actions do speak louder than words. 

Bottom line, I think it’s important for a leader to identify their personal values and reflect whether their actions are congruent in their values. If not, what can they do to fix it? How committed are they to improve their weaknesses everyday?

Overall, I hope you enjoy the rest of this applied leadership project with me. Tune in next time as we continue to elaborate on the individual perspective of the Social Change Model.


TaTa for now!