Debriefing a Tale of Two Stories and GVV Pillar Three: CHOICE

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Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values

51 calificaciones

University of Virginia

Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values

51 calificaciones

This course offers an action-oriented introduction to Giving Voice to Values (or GVV), an exciting new approach to values-driven leadership development in the workplace, in business education and in life. GVV is not about persuading people to be more ethical, but instead it starts from the premise that most of us already want to act on our values, but that we also want to feel that we have a reasonable chance of doing so effectively. Through positive, real life examples, pre-scripting, rehearsal and peer coaching, GVV builds the skill, the confidence and likelihood that we will act on our values more often and more successfully. Based on research and practice, with over 1,000 pilots in educational settings and companies on all seven continents, GVV helps answer the questions: “What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?” You will come away from this course with an expanded toolkit, as well as practice, in a variety of methods and techniques for voicing and enacting your own values and principles. You will develop and practice leadership skills in "peer coaching” with other learners. Through cases and stories based on recognizable workplace, classroom and life values conflicts, you will apply the GVV techniques and “re-frames”, expanding your repertoire for possible action as well as identifying and rehearsing responses that are likely to be most effective. Through this practice, you will gain greater confidence and competence in voicing and enacting your values effectively.

De la lección

Recognizing and Learning From Your Success and Failures

What are some of your own individual successes and failures at effectively voicing and acting on your values? What conditions made it easier for you to speak and act, and which conditions made it more difficult? We will spend week two of the course recognizing and reflecting on your responses to these questions so that you can gain some insights into your own strengths, abilities, and personal styles that empower you to act on your values. You'll do so by continuing to explore the pillars of GVV by taking an in depth look at Choice, Normalization, and Self-Knowledge and Alignment. Often people do not act on their values because they felt as though they had no choice. We learn that we often have more options than we believe we do. The Normalization pillar helps us perceive values conflicts as a normal everyday part of our lives. The Self-Knowledge and Alignment pillar helps us understand how to identify and use our strengths and abilities to effectively act on our values. Finally, we will hear a story about Ceilia and how she framed a challenge that played to her strengths to address a values conflict in her work. By the end of this module, you'll be able to identify and consider your own strengths and preferences for values expression in your career and your broader life.

Week 2 Introduction3:03

A Tale of Two Stories4:23

Debriefing a Tale of Two Stories and GVV Pillar Three: CHOICE4:48

Obedience to Authority and Choice7:20

Conoce a los instructores

Mary Gentile
Creator/Director, Giving Voice To Values and Professor of Practice
Darden School of Business

So welcome back.

What was that experience like for you?

Was it difficult for you to come up with the examples,

the stories of times when you had, and you had not acted on your values?

I'd often find both for myself and for the folks that I work

with that it isn't an easy exercise, but it's an important one.

Were you surprised by any of your own responses?

Any of your own actions and their impact and

I guess also just how did you feel about what you learned about yourself?

We do this exercise for a couple important reasons.

The first reason,

probably the most important reason, is that we want to clarify that given voice

to value is not by sorting the good people from the bad people.

What we've learned from doing this exercise is that we all haveacted on our

values at some point in our lives, we're all capable of that.

And we've all failed to act [LAUGH] on our values at other points in our lives.

So this is not really not about identifying your moral character.

It's more about building that moral competence to understand how you can do

this more often and more effectively.

And the second reason why we do this exercise is because we want to

identify some patterns.

We want to be able to identify, in the stories you tell, and

especially in the enablers and the disablers that you identify.

What are the conditions that enable you and

enable others to act effectively on their values?

And what are the conditions that make this more difficult?

Later, in this course, you'll have a chance to revisit your tale of two stories

and to have a sort of do over, to look back, hopefully at the story

when you failed to act on your values and see if you can create an alternate ending.

See if the things you're learning in this course allow you to feel that you actually

have more options but for now I want to take what you

learned from doing the tale of two stories and tie it to another one of the giving

voice to values pillars, this time we're going to be talking about choice.

Choice is important for giving voice to values because I have to say that

in the many years that I've been working in this area, I've talked to many people,

gathered many, many stories.

Hundreds of stories of times when people have and have not acted on their values.

And typically when people tell me these stories,

if I ask them, why didn't you act on your values when you didn't?

You're clearly somebody who has values, who cares about values.

They've told me stories sometimes when they have acted on their values.

So I ask, why didn't you when you didn't?

And they almost always say, because I didn't have a choice.

It's not because they didn't know what the right thing to do was,

it's not because they didn't care, it's because they felt they had no choice.

Giving voice to values is about helping people understand that we

often have more options than we believe.

But this requires some effort.

It requires some learning and some practice.

It requires preparation because you'll see that

many of the kinds of values conflicts that people encounter, come up again and

again in their lives and in other people's lives.

It requires pre-scripting and rehearsal and peer coaching.

And sometimes that requires reinterpreting and reframing the challenge that you're

facing so that you can actually define a response that's different

from the one that you thought you were restricted to.

So for a moment, I would like you to look back at the questions you answered

during week one of this course when you took the GVV survey.

You answered a number of questions that had to do with choice.

You were asked to think about, do I feel that I have a choice?

Have I acted effectively on my values in the past?

Have I failed to do so?

Etc., etc.

When you think about the experience you had with the tale of two stories and

you also think about some of the stories you've been hearing during this course,

would you answer these questions in the same way now?

Would you change any of your answers?

Or even if you don't think you would change them, if I asked you to think about

trying to change them, can you anticipate or imagine an alternative response?

That's really what giving voice to values is about.

It's about asking you to engage in that kind of creative thinking.

And to look back at the times when you have acted on your values and

to learn from the things that empowered you.

So I'm hoping that you'll back at your tale of two stories exercise and

your answers to these questions and try and reconsider those now.

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