Discovering Your Values

Adventures in Businessing: Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and a Healthy Dose of Humor

Show Notes:

• [0:00:58] Intro | Timely Topics
  • Brief Discovering Purpose Recap
• [00:03:03] Thoughts on Values
  • Values are guardrails.
    • "Stay between these lines."
  • Values can be deceptively easy.
  • Values force you to make tough decisions.
• [00:05:51] The Right Number of Values?
  • What's too many?
  • What's not enough?
  • An exercise in comparing and contrasting other company's values
  • Some well intentioned core values could actually be red flags...
    • Avoid the generic and indescript.
    • Value being memorable.
  • Nailing down your core values take time, and could rightfully be a slow process.
  • "Is this a value or a purpose?"
  • Values should have specificity.
• [00:15:47] Making Values Meaningful to Your Team
  • Using values as a motivator and empowering decision maker for the organization and projects.
  • Keep it short, sweet, and meaningful.
  • If you only have one value...that's probably your purpose, and not your value.
• [00:20:00] How to Discover Your Values
  • Sit down, converse, write down the things that are important to the organization.
    • Don't wait till you have 20-25 people to determine your values.
  • Try putting your values in priority order.
• [00:30:19] Closing Thoughts
  • Minimal, memorable, meaningful.