Expanding Your Group and Team Coaching Toolkit #6 - Values

This week's Expanding Your Coaching Toolkit focus is on values. Values act as anchors, helping us make better decisions, prioritize and communicate what’s

important for us. In a team context several things are important around values:

What are the values each individual brings to the team?

How aligned are our values with each other?

What are our team values? How does that differ from other individuals? From the organizational values?

What is important and how does that get translated? How do values translate to behaviors and practices?

How to Work with Values:

There are many different ways to work with values including:

·         A values checklist

·         Having people talk about a peak experience (individually or collectively) and pulling values from that story. You might ask the question – “Think about a time when you were at your best as a team. Describe it.:

·         Creating a values shield of what is important to them. This shield or tapestry can be left visible

·         Creating a values word string – given that there are multiple layers to values, a word string capturing adjectives.

Working with Values  - Team Vs Group

When working with a group it is likely that you will be helping each group member identify their own individual values. When working with a team, the focus is often:

1.       What are the values? How are they translated into action?

2.       What does alignment around the values and behaviors that the team is practicing. As a virtual team it can be very important to have them aligned so that the experience of working in area one, is like area two.

3.       Exploring values at the individual, team and organizational levels. What’s aligned? What is not?

Six Questions - Values

1.       What is important to you?

2.       What do you notice about alignment with the goals?

3.       How do your values get translated into action?

4.       What’s important to note about the values you hold?

1.       Where are values being honored?

2.       Where are they not?

What is important to explore this week around values with your group and team coaching clients?

Enjoy the conversation,

Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, CPCC, PCC – Potentials Realized 
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
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