Work Life Values. They determine our happiness, our career success, & the decisions we make. Learn how to uncover your own, how to find them in a company, and what it means to reframe so you can take positive & proactive action to actualize and realize your fullest potential.

1. WORK LIFE VALUES
Find a Good Work/Career Fit – Manifest & Identify

2. Overview
1) Your Voice: why – Why is this of value to you? (Why does this matter to you?)
2) Common Ground: what – What is a Core Value? A Work Value? (Let’s define it.)
 (Em)Power Model
 Quick Exercise
 Example
3) Work It Out: activity – How do we uncover our own?
 Detox: do we have any negative core values?
 Reframe: let’s reframe these so we clear a space for positivity
 Identify: what are your Core Values?
4) Relate: how – How does this inform our Work Search? (The work we do in our personal lives directly
affects our careers.)
5) What Next?: where – Where do we go from here?
• How can we identify a company’s Core Values? (website, glassdoor, news, Social Media, info interviews,
interview … organizing the information)

3. Your Voice

4. Your Voice – Why is this of value to you?
• Why does having values matter to you?
-stay focused
• Why does understanding your values matter to you?
-know who you are and what makes you tick
-understanding what matters to you so you can find out if it truly matters to the organization
• Why does connecting Life Values to Work Live Values matter to you?
-flexibility in work to suit family needs
-stay focused so you know what company to focus on
-knowing who you are helps you have happiness and fulfillment in the job

5. Common Ground

6. Common Ground – what / definitions
Core Value
• Core values are the fundamental beliefs of a person
or organization.
• These guiding principles dictate behavior and can
help people understand the difference between
right and wrong.
• There are many different types of core values in the
world, depending upon the context.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-core-values.html
Work Life Value
• Core values also help companies to determine if
they are on the right path and fulfilling their goals
by creating an unwavering guide.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-core-values.html
• Core values are what support the vision, shape the
culture and reflect what the company values.
• They are the essence of the company’s identity –
the principles, beliefs or philosophy of values.
https://7geese.com/benefits-of-having-core-values-and-how-to-set-
them-in-your-organization/

7. (Em)Power
(Barbara Wilcox) Dr. Shad Helmstetter
Programming
Beliefs/Values
(alignment happens when
what we believe in = what
we value)
Attitudes
(how we express or apply
our belief/values)
Feelings
(a way an attitude is
expressed)
Actions
(a way an attitude is
expressed)
Results
(what happens)

8. Quick Exercise
What is my Attitude?
1. Do I “have an attitude?”
2. Does this attitude serve me?
If Not ….
• If the attitude (the expression of my belief
or value) makes me feel negative … then I
must reframe my belief or value!

9. Example
Ex: I come from a chaotic home, and so I will always attract chaos. – Does this serve me? Does this
make me feel good?
-belief: I come from a chaotic home | I will always attract chaos
-value: chaos
1. Reframe: I come from a chaotic home, and I value order so I will attract order. – Does this serve
me better?
-belief: I come from a chaotic home | I will attract order
-value: order
2. #NextLevel Reframe: I come from a loving home, and I value the balance & boundaries within
love, so I will attract balance & boundaries. – Does this serve me even better?
-belief: I come from a loving home | I will attract balance & boundaries
-value: love, balance, boundaries

10. Work It Out

11. Detox Whole Group – Negative Core
Values
• Negative Core Values – driven by self-interest, greed. They can also develop when people live in
fear or insecurity and are forced to focus on survival.
Examples:
• A belief that the world is a fundamentally brutal place and that only the strong survive
• A belief that people are powerless to change their fates or personal situations
• A belief that you don't deserve good things or relationships in life
• A belief that other people are fundamentally untrustworthy and unloving
• A belief that life is meaningless
(http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-core-values.html)
Good News – if we don’t like them or they make us feel negative … we can change them! Let’s
brainstorm some & try to reframe if we choose, or reframe the above.

12. Detox Reframe
Negative Core Value/How it Makes me
Feel
New Core Value/How it Makes me Feel

13. Identify – What are Your Core Values?
1. Brainstorm - Write down every core value that resonates with you.
2. Functionally Analyze – Group them in a way that makes sense to you, personally.
3. Categorize – Choose 1 word within each group in that represents the label for your entire
group.
4. Take Action - Add a verb to each value so you an see what it looks like in action.
5. Prioritize – Write these core values in order of priority. (Choose 6-8)
6. Revisit & Repeat – every 3 months or 6 months, every year. Every time you want some
positive energy.

14. Relate

15. How does this inform our Career/Work
Search?
Companies have Core Values as Well
Companies can have core values as well. These are the guiding principles that help to
define how the corporation should behave in business and perhaps beyond, if they have
an additional mission to serve the community. Core values are usually expressed in the
corporation's mission statement.
• Some examples of core values for a company include:
• A commitment to sustainability and to acting in an environmentally friendly way.
Companies like Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's have environmental sustainability as a
core value.
• A commitment to innovation and excellence. Apple Computer is perhaps best known
for having a commitment to innovation as a core value. This is embodied by their
"Think Different" motto.
• A commitment to doing good for the whole. Google, for example, believes in making a
great search engine and building a great company without being evil.
• A commitment to helping those less fortunate. TOMS shoe company gives away a pair
of shoes to a needy person for every pair it sells in an effort to alleviate poverty and
make life better for others.
• A commitment to building strong communities. Shell oil company donates millions of
dollars to the University of Texas to improve student education and to match
employee charitable donations.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-core-values.html
How It Fits
If Core Values help companies in the decision making
process … why do we want these to align with our core
values?
(https://7geese.com/benefits-of-having-core-values-and-how-to-set-them-in-your-
organization/)
 Not JUST so we feel good & feel in alignment … but also so we have the cognitive
framework (the brainwork) to make these decisions!
 You can be the most skilled person in the world … and have the ability to develop new
skills quickly. You can even learn new ways to think. BUT … if your values aren’t
aligned, it will be very hard to see eye-to-eye no matter how many new skills and
techniques we learn.
 THEN, there’s a disagreement … and we did all of this work to learn to skills and new
techniques. What happens to our self efficacy (or belief in our skills) when it doesn’t
work out ….
 We doubt them. UNLESS, we realize it was a mismatch in values.

16. What’s Next

17. Where Can We Go From Here?
How can we identify a company’s core values?
Website
News
Social Media
Info Interviews