Our Book: What’s Important
It’s About Values. What’s Important is about Values Perspectives: a different way of looking at and working with values, whether you want to really understand what drives your own life…
Thinking About Values
Managing Millennials and Engaging Values at Work
According to a recent, major research report by the Gallup organization, How Millennials Want to Work and Live, only 29% of millennials are “engaged” at work. The other 71% are either…
Values-Driven Leadership
“Values Driven Leadership” is an in depth look at leadership styles as they develop from the Values Perspective model. Four basic styles describe a wide variety of priorities and behaviors…
Change Your Story = Change Your Direction
The story you tell about yourself may be told in a subtle or forceful way, but the power it has to direct your future is unmistakable. When you take charge…
Graduated and Scared to Death? Time to Learn and Tell Your Core Story
We conducted a recent workshop with undergraduates, new graduates and faculty at a university business school in Canada. For a lot of them, the question is “what now?” The premise…
Use Your Values to Prepare for That Job Interview
Looking for a job is one of the more difficult things in life. And it almost makes things more difficult when well meaning friends turn into advisors. “Don’t take it…
The Internet – A Phase Shift in the Value of Belonging
Facebook now has more than 800 million active users. Google+ just started, and already has over 100 million active users. Wikipedia names more than 200 separate social networking sites, representing…
Storytelling in a Civil Engineering Company
Storytelling is a powerful vehicle for persuasion. We work with a large civil engineering company, where engineers, estimators and business managers rotate from the field into an employee development advocate role. Their…
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In Your Job Search, Knowing Your Values — And Theirs — Can Give You An Edge.