Values Edge System
Align and Implement Values for Personal and Organizational Success
The Values Edge System is an excellent catalyst for gaining personal insight, coaching individuals, sparking employee engagement, improving teamwork, and more.
Exploring personal values is more than inner discovery and understanding what makes people tick. In a world that's in a constant state of flux, values are what remain steadfast and true. They're the driving force behind personal action and a beacon of focus in turbulent times. Successful organizations recognize the business case for value clarity, and they know that connecting personal values to organizational strategy is the vital link to employee engagement, commitment, a healthy culture, and a competitive advantage.
Based on more than 20 years of experiential research, authors Dr. Cynthia Scott and Dr. Dennis Jaffe developed The Values Edge System: An Exercise in Personal and Team Discovery, a powerful training tool that clarifies personal values, enhances relationships, strengthens team performance, renews organizational culture, and inspires innovation. It makes making sense of values simple by putting them on the table, literally.
The Values Edge System is an excellent catalyst for gaining personal insight, coaching individuals, sparking employee engagement, improving teamwork, and aligning culture. Use it with anyone in your organization, from frontline employees to executive management team members, and everyone in between.
How It Works
Personal and team discovery sessions simply and effectively bring values to the surface. Participants create a hierarchy of their individual value system using pyramid tents, stickers, and cards that represent both intrinsic and instrumental values. What makes these exercises so powerful is that in addition to "seeing" what drives their own actions, individuals get a clear picture of how their values compare to their peers, teams, and even the organization as a whole.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to:
- Establish a common organizational language.
- Inspire innovation and performance.
- Improve the results of one-on-one coaching.
- Build a career development plan.
- Transform organizational culture.
- Uncover cultural and strategic differences.
Product Details
Objective: To clarify values and develop actions to improve performance
Time Required: 1.5-2 hours (per exercise)
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About the Authors
Dr. Cynthia Scott is a founding principal of Changeworks Global, a recognized leader with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of strategic planning for human capital management, managing continual organizational change, and visionary leadership. She is the author of numerous books, including Rekindling Commitment and Take This Work and Love It! and her work has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Stanford Business School Newsletter, and Worthwhile Magazine.
Dr. Dennis Jaffe is a founding principal of Changeworks Global and director of the Organizational Inquiry Program at Saybrook Graduate School. He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of organizational development and earned his Ph.D. in sociology and MA in management from Yale University. His professional training is in organizational development, and he is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Jaffe is the author of 22 books, including Rekindling Commitment and Organizational Vision, Values, and Mission.