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How Are You Living Your Values?

Lalita Raman

Lalita Raman

It is Friday evening and you are looking forward to your long  overdue vacation. You are working on the final touches of your proposal to get a new line of business approved. The proposal is almost ready barring some details on some legal challenges that you are  awaiting from your legal department. You receive the legal opinion and when you read it, you realize that a key element is missing. Not considering this aspect might hurt the franchise of the business in the future. The only person aware about this is you and none else.
What would you do?
Would you rather let it go because you’ll never be found out or blamed or would you listen to your inner voice which tells you how important it is to highlight this specific legal risk.

What is this inner voice that whispers to you at various moments in your day and life. A whisper to the effect “There is no way you can do that. it’s not right”.

Each of us have core values whether we realize it or not. Core values is what is imbibed in us from the day we are born. Some values we instill in us as we are growing. Values sit within our memory and are deep-rooted. They are not written anywhere but are those which we live through our behavior and actions.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ‘em all over everything you do. ~Elvis Presley

You are your personal brand. Personal brand is not just about you being a CEO or CFO or Fashion designer but it is what you are in what you do and how you choose to show your values in your career and the various roles you perform.

Key questions on Values

1. What are your top five values?

Of course you may have more than five values but top values are those that are your core. Those values with what you stick to when you are most vulnerable and life tests you.

2. What behaviors and actions of yours demonstrate your values ?

In the various workshops that I conduct as well in some of the coaching sessions, most people are able to elicit their values but they struggle with how their behavior or actions reflect the same. This helps you to determine how you are becoming what you want to be.

3. What is your vision, your personal brand and how does your values relate to them?

Your values help you make decisions. They represent you in whatever you are and what you do.

4. For those who know you, and looked at your life, would they be able to identify your values?

Be it making a presentation or choosing a new career or role, living to your core values is one of the ways you empower yourself to achieve your goals.

5. What makes you proud of who you are?

Do you use your values in decision-making and in the various choices in life. Do you walk away from things that don’t serve you or make you feel content?

Values create meaning in your life and your sense of being.

Have you thought about your values?
How are you discovering who you are?

10 Comments
  • Terri Klass (@TerriKlass)

    5 June 2013 at 12:13 am Reply

    Great post, Lalita because I also believe that my core values define my leadership brand. Whatever decision I make and whomever I speak with, my values of empathy and compassion drive by actions and behaviors. Thanks for sharing an important article to think about!

    • Lalita Raman

      5 June 2013 at 12:52 am Reply

      Thank you Terri. I love your insights. Beautifully stated that your core values defines your leadership brand

  • Amber-Lee Dibble

    5 June 2013 at 5:10 am Reply

    Lalita,
    This is a wonderful post. It is a question we must, MUST, continue to ask ourselves as Leaders, teaching, lifting and training new Leaders. Thank you.

    • lalitaraman

      5 June 2013 at 6:02 pm Reply

      Absolutely agree with you Amber Lee. Thank you so much :).

  • allipolin

    5 June 2013 at 12:27 pm Reply

    Values are the guideposts in our lives. So important to not only know that we have them but to understand what they are so we can call them forth when making key decisions like the one you’ve highlighted. A great way to uncover values is to work with a coach, like you, that is skilled at helping us to uncover those moments that shine the light on our core values.

    • lalitaraman

      5 June 2013 at 6:05 pm Reply

      Thank you Alli. Knowing and understanding our values is key as yiu have pointed out. Amazing clarity is achieved when we seek to understand and act in accordance with our values.

      Thank you so much. :).

  • ChristopherinHR

    5 June 2013 at 10:39 pm Reply

    I love the incision and introspection you weave without judgment Lalita. You ask the questions we all need to of ourselves yet don’t provide the pat answer causing the reader to do the real work. You are the yogi of words.

  • Lalita Raman

    6 June 2013 at 1:39 am Reply

    Thank you Chris. I live by my words. As far as questions are concerned, I love the power of questions and ask them in my own life and also in my Coaching sessions.

    Thank you so much for your insight.

  • lollydaskal

    8 June 2013 at 2:05 am Reply

    What a great article on values! It makes you think and once you answer your important question it gives you a road map to your inner and outer journey as a leader!

    Great post!
    Lolly

    • lalitaraman

      8 June 2013 at 1:12 pm Reply

      Thank you so much Lolly. I’m humbled and honored to have you read, comment and share. I appreciate you. Thank you

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