ValueBase

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People often sense a good fit when their own values are amiable with an organization’s collective values. You will be most comfortable when there is a match between what is expected of you, what you do, your values, and the values of those around you.

The online ValueBase assessment helps: 

• clarify your values so you can make career decisions that are consistent with who you really are and your own priorities.
• identify and acknowledge what is important to other people in your organization.
• determine and resolve any mismatch between your values and your work environment.
• plan and facilitate a value clarification discussion within your organization.
• discover how behaviors and actions affect your constituents and determine what actions can be taken to assure stronger values fit.

Values and guiding principles are at the very root and base of your belief system. Your ValueBase is the aggregate expressed in your behavior, attitude, relationships, and goals you believe are important. 

How important you consider the value to be arises from the influence of a number of sources: parents, peers, organizations to which you belong, logic, emotions, and observations. Your values are developed over a lifetime of experiences or may be affected by your immediate situation.

What is important to you? What do you value above all else? 

Like most people, you spend considerable time in the workplace. What working environment is worth so much of your valuable talent and time? Do you know? When was the last time you clarified and prioritized your values? 

The purpose of the ValueBase assessment is to:

• help you clarify your values so you can make career decisions that are consistent with who you really are and your own priorities. 
• assist you to better understand what is important to other people in your organization. 
• provide strategies to identify and resolve any mismatch between your values and your work environment. 
• introduce tools you can use to facilitate a value clarification discussion within your team, department, and organization.
• guide you in discovering how behaviors and actions impact your constituents and determine what actions can be taken to ensure a stronger value fit.

Developed and published by Darlene Davis, The Ryan Group Inc.