20: How to Discover Your Core Values
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 9 January 2012
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Your core values influence how you view the world and how you interact with others. It’s key that we understand our own core values as part of our series on personal leadership.
I read a quote on page 46 of The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
Here are the values that I spoke about:
- Meaning – Investing my time and talent into things and people that personally inspire me in the world.
- Sustainability – Putting my effort into things that will provide lasting, positive change in the world.
- Vision – Creating the future by building things twice (once with vision, once in reality).
- Empowerment – Give others the confidence to learn, grow, and contribute to the world in sustainable ways.
- Love – My passion and desire to treat people like fellow human beings.
Some questions for you to consider as you determine your core values:
- What is your perfect day?
- What are you doing when you are in flow and lose track of time?
- What events are you most proud of in your life?
- When do you feel most alive?
- What makes you angry?
- What are you willing to fight for?
I mentioned this document that contains a list of values and may be helpful in determining your core values.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode 20, airing on January 9, 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. Welcome to coaching skills for leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills so they can help others achieve their maximum potential. |
| 0:29.0 | Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the time. Improving your coaching skills will drive |
| 0:34.8 | your success and most importantly, the success of others. |
| 0:39.2 | This week's topic is your core values. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of coaching skills for leaders. I'm coming to you from our studio here in Orange County, California, |
| 0:52.0 | and so excited to be with you here today for the beginning of another |
| 0:55.2 | week and the continuation of our series on personal leadership. |
| 1:01.5 | You'll remember from last week's episode number 19 that I am |
| 1:06.5 | hosting an entire month this month on personal leadership and the |
| 1:10.7 | importance of us as leaders and as coaches of being able to lead ourselves first. |
| 1:18.0 | Before we try to lead and coach others, and it's a good time of the year to be thinking about that because it's a natural time |
| 1:25.7 | for us to be thinking about that anyway here at the beginning of the year. |
| 1:29.4 | And so we're going to be jumping in today into a topic that's tremendously important for personal leadership, |
| 1:36.6 | which is your core values. |
| 1:40.3 | But before I jump in there, if you haven't had a chance already to go back and listen to episode 19 last week's episode |
| 1:49.7 | Where I set up the importance of personal leadership. |
| 1:52.6 | You may want to jump back and take a listen to that. |
| 1:55.0 | And you can find that on iTunes |
| 1:56.6 | or you can find that on our website at innovate learning.com. |
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