Leadership Trainer & Coach - I write a monthly newsletter to share curated content and resources on leadership and personal growth. Suscribe today!
Leaders that Care - Ep3: The Power of Values
EPISODE 3
THE POWER OF VALUES
Did you know that September is Self Improvement Month? If you like the topic, I'll be talking all September about Self Improvement over my Instagram account.
And that's also the reason behind this episode's topic: you cannot talk personal growth without talking about Values.
I define Values as the principles that guide your life and define what's important to you. Values are the pillars over which you build and improve yourself.
As a leader, there are three main values perspectives we need to take into account:
- Our own core values: values are tightly connected to a more fulfilling life. Only writing about and reflecting on our own values has been proven to make people feel in control and more connected to others, build stamina and improve overall wellbeing.
- Our team member's individual values: what others value play an important role in the existence of psychological meaningfulness at work. That is, how engaged people can feel at work depends in part to the connection they see to a higher purpose and their own values.
- Our team / organizational values: there's research that shows the connection of clear and shared corporate purpose and values and business growth (85% of purpose led companies showed positive growth).
This newsletter will cover Personal Values: definition, benefits, examples and more. You'll also find a special gift below: the exercise I use with my coaching clients to help them define their values!
Let's jump right in!
Personal Values
During my coaching practice I've seen once and again how clarifying personal values can help tremendously when facing the following situations:
- feeling disconnected or aloof at work
- going through transitions
- career, company, job change
- analyzing proposals, alternatives, opportunities
Find below four free resources that will give you a complete overview of what personal values are and the enormous benefits living to your values can bring to your professional and personal life.
WORSKHOPYour Personal Values as Your Professional Compass |
If you are feeling disconnected at work or thinking about a career move, aligning your professional choices with your core values can set you up for a more meaningful and balanced life. Join me in this 2 hours workshop where we will work on clarifying your values and setting up a plan to living up to them.
|
Laura Guolo
Leadership Trainer & Coach - I write a monthly newsletter to share curated content and resources on leadership and personal growth. Suscribe today!
EPISODE 6 THE COACHING LEADERSHIP STYLE If you are concerned about how to grow your team, how to enable their autonomy and increase their capabilities, then you can probably benefit from a coaching leadership style. Although effective leaders use more than one leadership style (situational leadership), the complexity of the problems we face and the diversity of skills we need to solve these challenges make the coaching leadership style one of the must-haves. But first, why coaching? What is...
EPISODE 5 LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM 2022 What word would you use as a leader to describe this year? Mine would be "restart". This year began with a desperate need to go back to something that felt normal. However, we were forced to learn that the "new normal" was much more than just hybrid or remote work: The Great Resignation followed by the Quite Quitting trend has shaken employee engagement metrics and efforts The spotlight on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion dimensions pushed companies to...
EPISODE 4 THERE IS NO LEADERSHIP WITHOUT SELF-AWARENESS How can we lead if we cannot read our own emotions? How can we inspire and challenge if our purpose is unclear? How can we coach and develop others if we have never reflected deeply about our own passions, fears, strengths and weaknesses? We can't. Self-awareness is transformational; I've seen it in the many leaders I coached during my career and it has also helped me through my professional challenges. If you want to dramatically change...