People with strong, positive characters not only know their values, but make a point of acting on them. I would like to recommend reviewing the list of values compiled by The Foundation for a Better Life to decide which are most important, and to then lay out a plan to express them through everyday behavior.
Everyone should put their values to the test to make sure they are real and enduring, by asking themselves twelve questions:
1. Would I be tempted, even to a minor degree, to shade the facts?
2. What are my relationships like with my coworkers, team members, bosses and clients? Do I respect them and what they do? Have I ever wielded authority – at any level – in an inappropriate manner to make things easier or better for myself?
3. When the project is completed and successful, who gets the credit? Am I comfortable sharing the credit?
4. What happens if the job does not go well? Am I looking for someone to blame?
5. Am I comfortable engaging in a dialog with those who work with me? Am I genuinely interested in hearing opinions and ideas that are different from mine? Can I take criticism from those who work with me?
6. Am I comfortable sharing power and authority or do I want it all for myself?
7. Am I personally vested in my organization’s success or am I just putting in the time?
8. Do I probe to understand why and how things need to get done or am I simply pushing for immediate results?
9. Do I listen carefully to my coworkers, bosses, and clients, or just nod when others are talking?
10. Do my actions mirror my words and is my behavior consistent?
11. Am I ready and eager to start from scratch by meeting the challenges that come from each new assignment?
12. Can people trust me to support them? Do I empower them? Do they know and believe that I am there for them?
Based on the answers to these questions, anyone at any stage in a career can develop their own values statement. This is a precise, written declaration that can be referred to again and again in the process of character-building. While the process is not easy, the payoff is significant as the answers will define the scope of a person’s value set in great depth.
Architect for Breakthrough Achievement, Abhishek Shah has 13+ years of experience in selling, managing, building and leading sales organizations regionally and internationally. He is a sales development leader and experimenter. His ideas about selling are convictions about life, money, and meaning. He loves #technology & calls #socialmedia as his first love. He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce and is a MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He lives in New Delhi India with his proud family and spends his free time pursuing one of his many interests, which include tinkering with gadgets & hardware, playing with his little tiger Aarav!! He calls Appitive.com as the daily Social Media Appetizer for which he is the CEO and managing partner.
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