The exercise is to narrow this large list of values down to your two core values.Īs Brené describes, reducing this list to just two values is universally difficult. The list includes a diverse set of over 100 values, values like accountability, achievement, balance, competence, excellence, family, giving back, joy, legacy, order, patience, recognition, resourcefulness, travel, wealth, and wisdom. In Dare to Lead, Brené presents a list of values. Defining Our Core Values: An Exercise for Individuals This essay is an exploration of this exercise: an exercise in exploring, identifying, expressing, and sharing our core values. I thought it would be valuable for me to define and express my core values, and to get each person on my team to do the same, as a way to improve self-awareness, understand each other better, identify leadership opportunities, and support each other in our values. As leaders, we need to be clear about what we believe and hold important, and we need to ensure that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviours align with our values.Įxplicitly identifying our values takes reflection and contemplation-deeply personal work that many people have never taken the time for. Brené believes that leaders always carry a clarity of values, and that leaders do more than profess their values, they practice them.
This definition recognizes that everyone in an organization can provide leadership, and that leadership can involve developing and nurturing tooling, technologies, procedures, source code, documentation, relationships, and culture, in addition to people.Ī value is a way of being or believing that we hold important. I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential. In Dare to Lead, Brené defines leadership broadly, without any association to role, title, seniority, or relationship: It is often used to evoke a caricature of leadership-cunning, bravado, strength, decisiveness, certainty-a caricature that is missing the depth, connection, purpose, authenticity, relatedness, and understanding of true leadership. The word leadership makes me uncomfortable. Dare to Lead covers much of the same subject matter-relationships, vulnerability, shame, being present-but I found the framing of these themes with a focus on leadership particularly valuable. I am very fond of her book Daring Greatly.
Last year, I read Brené Brown's book Dare to Lead. Understanding Our Core Values: An Exercise for Individuals and Teams Colin Breck Understanding Our Core Values: An Exercise for Individuals and Teams
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