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FINDING THEIR WHY THROUGH

VALUES

- the golden bullet to help

clients unlock career

success, happiness and

fulfilment in changing times

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Carolyn Parry

Founder Director and Lead Coach

Potential,

Inspired…

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My professional background

17 years in property, international

publishing & software (micro/SME/FTSE250)

15 years working with talented students,

early stage career professionals, career

changers and graduate recruiters, latterly

as Deputy Director and Director

Previously Co Chair of Association of

Graduate Recruiters (Wales and West)

And founder member of NHS Informatics

Wales Workforce Development Board

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About Career Alchemy

“We help clients to create

fulfilling, meaningful, and

sustainable working lives through

understanding, valuing and using

their intrinsic talents, strengths,

skills and mindset purposefully.”

We work both with individual clients

and organisations including:

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Today’s session

Why I work at values level

Understanding values and how they

work

Working with values

Finding purpose through values

My real story: dark tunnels…

My real story: dark tunnels, donuts …

My real story: dark tunnels, donuts and sudden dawn…


My very

own

critical

incident

Critical Incidents: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/globalpad/openhouse/interculturalskills/cc_critical_incidents_13112

… which led to a move to the Land of my Fathers (Wales!)

… with six months’ contemplation…


…thinking about what to do with my working life…


(none of these roles!)


… where I realised that my values

and my definitions of happiness

and success were different from

those I was brought up which I had

… nobody had asked me the

questions I needed to be asked

to discover the path I sensed

was there for me, but

couldn’t explain, and certainly

didn’t know how to access and

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Because…

… and this, unknowingly then,

became my why

and has been my quest ever

since, using values as keys to

help individuals unlock and

create happy, successful and

meaningful working lives.

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What are values?

• The unconscious truths we live by

• The things that matter to you - usually hard to

picture, but we all know what you mean, or do

we?

• “…enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct

or end-state of existence is personally or

Be-haviour

Intentions

Attitudes

Values & beliefs

Components of identity

Fishbein, M. & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention, and behavior: An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

happiness

success

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© Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved. For theories related to need see: https://careersintheory.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/how

http://www.futuresalon.org/2010/02/updated-future-salon-

participants-top-3-personal-values-word-cloud.html

Big picture words(nominalisations)

https://careersintheory.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/how-many-needs/

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“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”

Aristotle

Greek philosopher and scientist

384-322BC

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How values are formed

Massey: http://www.enterprisemedia.com/content/misc/00125.pdf

James:http://www.iep.utm.edu/james-o / &

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/

http://www.enterprisemedia.com/content/misc/00125.pdf

http://www.iep.utm.edu/james-o /

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/

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Values characteristics

Extrinsic or Means Values

Desired for the sake of something/somebody

else (eg possessions/money)

Intrinsic or End Values

Desired for their own sake because of their

intrinsic value (eg truth, beauty, holiness)

Individual, personal and deep rooted constants


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Types of values

They are either “Away from” or “Towards”

They can be “Threshold values” (deal

breakers)

They are expressions of our needs, wants and

motivation

AWAY FROM VALUES TOWARDS VALUES

Not failing Being successful

Ill-health Good health

Too much change Security

Not feeling trapped Freedom of choice


Transcendence

(helping others to

self actualize)

Self –actualizatio

n(personal growth,

realizing own potential)Aesthetic Needs

(symmetry, order and beauty)

Cognitive needs(Knowing, meaning, self

awareness)

Esteem(achievement, confidence, status,

responsibility, reputation)

Belongingness & love(family, affection, relationships,

work group etc)

Safety(protection, security, law, limits, stability etc)

Physiological needs(air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep etc)

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Maslow’s Hierarchyof needs- extended version

D-needs

Need to satisfy

deficiency

B-needs

Needs to satisfy desire

for growth

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“I think that the notion of justice and

the issues and values that I understood

growing up and (have) continued to

embrace throughout my life and into

my career have been the same.”

Maya Harris

MSNBC Political Analyst

and 2016 Senior Political Adviser

to Hilary Clinton

Born 1967

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Q: What work values did

those around you hold when

you were growing up?

Were these away from or

towards values?

Discussion


Values: the golden bullet for

creating working lives that work…

The Key Question

Q: When you think about career/work/job what

matters to you?


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Identifying values…




Use their words, not yours, their words may

have different meanings

Identify what matters to them (Q1)

Probe for more until they run out by asking

“what else” (Q1a)

Read them back to enable the client to check

for what’s missing (Q1b)

Explore their values associated with their

motivation strategy (Q2)

Identify threshold values (Q3 and Q4)

Get the client to prioritise them, creating a © Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved.

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Key principles and process

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Practice

Work in pairs as coach and

client

(or threes as coach, client, and

observer)

using the handout to discover

the client’s values

Complete questions 1 – 4 only

for now

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What did you discover?

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Types of “Happy”

Source: Cassie Mogilner, Sep Kamvar, Jennifer Aaker (2011), The Shifting Meaning of

Happiness, Social Psychological and Personality Science

Excited happy Peaceful happy

www.careeralc

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© Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/eproto/workingpapers/happinessproductivity.pdf

• Happiness makes people more productivity (c. 12%)

• Lower happiness is systematically associated with

lower productivity.

• Existence of a causal link between human well-being

and human performance

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/eproto/workingpapers/happinessproductivity.pdf

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Success not stress

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Happiness, meaning and purpose"Happiness was linked to being a

taker rather than a giver, whereas

meaningfulness went with being a

giver rather than a taker…

… If happiness is about getting what

you want, then meaningfulness is

about expressing and defining

yourself.

A life of meaning is more deeply

tied to a valued sense of self and

one's purpose in the larger

Source: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/january/meaningful-happy-life-010114.html

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For a client to fully understand a value

sometimes you need to explore further

Values often contain sub-values

Values appear to be in conflict sometimes but

are often just two sides of the same coin

They are often linked to rules and strategies

They lead to enabling clients to find a career

purpose

Purpose is often linked to critical incidents© Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved.

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Using values to find purpose (Q5 & Q6)Principles


Sifting for gold – Q: What does [value]

mean to you?

Listen for important nominalisations (eg

being happy, being successful ie state

related)

Explore them by asking the question

above to find the gold within the detail

and aid client understanding

You will sometimes discover sub values by

doing this which may need to be noted

individually© Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved.


Sifting for gold – Q: What has to

happen for you to be [value]?

This question identifies the rules a client

believes must be observed to create the

desired state

Help you client be aware of these by

asking the question above

You may need to challenge negative

thinking at some point if the current rules

are likely to impede success© Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved.




Only rank values once they are clear

Think “stacks” - each lower value normally

supports the value above

Use these questions to create the right order:

“Of these values, which is the most important

to you?

“If you could only have one of these two

values, which would you choose?”© Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved.

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Ranking values (Q5 grid)


Clarifying – Q: How specifically do

you want to [value]?

Values like “helping people” or

“making a difference” are vague

Use this question to help client (and

you) gain more clarity

Values may be related to critical

incidents

Explore the reason for a specific © Career Alchemy 2017. All rights reserved.

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Finding purpose within values to

create a career vision


Q6: If I could wave a magic wand and you could

[cite value eg make a difference/contribution]

in any context to

[eg anybody or group of people, or to anything

or group of things]

what would that [value eg

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Practice

Work in your pairs as coach and

client

(or threes as coach, client, and

observer)

Review the values list and

check for clarity then

complete Q5 and Q6

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What did you discover?


Recap on today’s session…


Looked at why values matter so much

Discovered what they are and how they

are formed

Used a structured set of questions to

identify client values

Explored why happiness and purpose

matter so much in career success

Used values information as a key to

helping a client develop a career

purpose


What will you do as a result of

today?


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Your next steps…

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Carolyn Parry

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