So welcome back.
Now I'd like to spend a little bit of time introducing you
to the Seven Pillars of giving voice to values.
These are the foundational ideas that the whole approach is based upon.
These pillars are basically insights or
observations that we've gathered from talking to and observing a lot
of people who have found ways to act on
their values and also times when they fail to act on their values
successfully and what they capture are the ways of thinking that
seem to make it easier for people to act
effectively on the values that seemed to enable them.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go quickly through
the whole seven set of pillars and introduce you to them.
But then throughout the course of this class we'll have
a chance to look at each pillar in a little more depth.
But let me give you the overview right now.
You'll notice that each of the pillars attempts to answer one of the questions that are
very important questions to make you feel more
confident and more competent at acting on your values.
So let's look at the first pillar,
the first pillar is of course values.
And with this pillar we're trying to answer the question,
"What really are values, what art values?
Is there any common ground for people to talk to each
other across what may seem to be different values sets?"
The second pillar is purpose.
This is where we look at the question,
"What am I really working for?
What is important to me?
Why and how is my work meaningful and how can that
affect my ability to voice and act on my value?"
The third pillar is choice.
This is at the heart of giving voice to values.
It's really asking the question,
"Do we have one?
Do we believe we have one?
Do we feel that we have a choice?
And how can we make it possible for us to feel that we have a choice?"
The fourth pillar we call it normalization.
But really what it's doing is it's answering
the question is business ethics or values conflicts
the in our work lives or in our everyday lives or are
they just unnormal part of everyday living?
The fifth pillar is self-knowledge and alignment.
This is my favorite one.
This is where we ask and answer the question,
"Am I the kind of person who can do this?
Who can effectively voice and act on my values and if I fear I am not.
Are there ways that I can help myself
feel more confident and understand that I can do this?
What are the ways that we can do that?"
The sixth pillar is voice and what we're asking there is how can I find my own voice.
Are there some strategies and tactics I can use to find that voice to get more
comfortable with that voice to rehearse that voice so that it comes more naturally.
And then the final or seventh pillar is called reasons and rationalizations.
And this is where we identify the typical kinds of objections.
The pushback that you might encounter or maybe that you have
encountered when you've tried to voice and act on your values and then to talk about.
Given that these reasons and rationalizations are fairly predictable,
are there ways that we can practice responses to them and
get more comfortable with that and we'll have the opportunity to do just that.
Now you may have recognized the Seven Pillars.
They were categories in the GVV survey that you took
previously and so you've already answered a set of questions about
each of these pillars surfacing you're coming in assumptions or starting
assumptions about how you define these terms and how you think about yourself.
Over the course of this class.
What we're hoping as you go through each of
these pillars in a little more depth you'll have the opportunity to look back at the way
you answered those questions and to consider it ask yourself
based on what I'm hearing now based on what I'm learning based on what I'm practicing.
Might I come up with an alternative answer to
some of those questions and answer them might make it
even more likely that I feel competent and comfortable voicing and acting on my values.