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Mission Statement

Finding a balance between life and work can be extremely challenging. The only way to navigate this effectively is to be grounded in your values and have clarity around your priorities. During this workshop, we will guide you through a process of identifying your values and narrowing them down to your “core values” and how to get clear on your priorities, so you can live joyfully, be more productive and make a bigger impact. You will get to discover how you can be an inspiration to others, how you can make a meaningful, powerful, and lasting contribution to humanity by serving a greater cause than your own – this is the legacy you can leave others.

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Objectives

1. Defining Values – Our values are the standards by which we live by – the things that you hold dear in your daily life and work. They (should) determine our priorities, and they’re probably the indicators we use to see if our life is going the way we want it to. When our actions and behaviors reflect our values, life is usually good – we’re satisfied and content. However, when these do not align with our personal values, things feel… off. This can be a major source of dissatisfaction. In this course we uncover how to define your values so that our decisions moving forward can align with them allowing for harmony and joy.
2. Your Why – Our why is what defines us. It is what drives us and motivates us every single day. d. It makes you the best person we can be. In this course we will clarify our why and how to use it as a guide for happiness.
3. Passion vs. Purpose – In this lesson we will take a look at the difference between passion and purpose. Our passion fuels us and is personal our purpose bigger than ourselves and is about serving others. Having a purpose in life is associated with all kinds of benefits. Research suggests that purpose is tied to having better health, longevity, and even financial success. It feels good to have a sense of purpose, knowing that you are using your skills to help others in a way that matters to you. This lesson allows you to reveal your purpose.
4. Prioritizing Priorities – Having a system in place to identify our priorities in our lives and at work is essential. For most people, their priorities are in a constant state of flux, shifting with the various demands that crop up on a daily basis. In order to prioritize your daily tasks effectively, you’ll need a clear picture of the bigger goals and values in your life. In this course we will go through a highly effective process to map out our priorities so we can be more productive and fulfilled.
5. Personal Boundaries – Once we have identified our values and priorities it is crucial to create boundaries to honor and protect them. In order to become an expert at setting and being comfortable with personal boundaries, you have to practice. Luckily, in this course we have 9 amazing ways for you to get started and to start reclaiming your own life with establishing clear personal boundaries.
6. Relationship Boundaries – Boundaries in relationships can help us by enhancing our sense of self. They enable us to separate our identity, feelings, and needs from those of our partners, family, friends, and colleagues. Boundaries aid in the development of healthy relationships by outlining needs and respecting limits. In this course we will take a deep dive into how to create boundaries in all of your relationships.
7. Workplace Boundaries – Many professional women especially millennials have found themselves in a precarious position as a result of corporate oppression, professional duress, and social anxiety. All we can do for the time being is maintain a healthy boundary so they can avoid overwork, burnout, and stress. Setting professional boundaries at work entails developing healthy professional practices for yourself. These boundaries can often help you stay productive and happy at work while also allowing you to better separate your work and personal lives. Learn exactly how to do this in this powerful course.
8. Yes or No – Knowing when to say Yes and when to say know can be difficult at times. In this course, we will reveal some guidelines you can follow to help make your decision easily and confidently.
9. Success Environment – Is your workplace designed for success? You may not realize it, but your surroundings play a significant role in your success. Your surroundings and what (or who) occupies those surroundings comprise your environment. Setting up your environment for success will make it much easier to embrace new opportunities and drive true success for yourself, your business, and your future. Find out exactly how in this riveting lesson.
10. Workplace Habits – Successful people frequently attribute their success to specific habits. Some actions, when practiced on a daily basis, can assist us in maintaining focus and completing workplace tasks. In this course, we will look at six examples of good workplace habits that we can cultivate in order to be more productive and advance in our careers.
11. Finding Fulfillment – Each individual has their own path, their own definition of happiness. Work is what we spend the majority of our adult lives doing. It is important to make sure that your work allows you to utilize your gifts and talents as well as meet your financial goals. In this course we will cover the 4 pillars to find fulfillment in life and the key steps to finding fulfillment at work.
12. Making a Difference – Many people believe that they lack the ability to make a difference in the world. The truth is that each of us has been placed in this world to contribute and make a difference in our own unique way. It doesn’t have to be anything out of the ordinary. It simply has to be something you do with the intention of ‘doing good.’ In this course we reveal ways that you can make a difference in the world by being uniquely you!

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Strategies

1. Learn and implement the steps to defining one’s values and then narrowing them down to 3 core values.
2. Process to discover our Why, what motivates us then, creating our Why Statement.
3. Discover 7 strategies to finding our purpose. Including an activity to build team cohesiveness and creative thinking.
4. Learn keys to prioritize our priorities.
5. Adopt tips in setting personal boundaries to honor and protect our priorities.
6. Learn powerful ways to identify and then separate our feelings and needs from our partner, family, friends, and colleagues by setting relationship boundaries.
7. Develop healthy professional practices by setting workplace boundaries.
8. Guidelines to knowing when to say Yes or No.
9. Steps to create our environment for success including selecting a business bestie.
10. Cultivating success habits to become more productive and advance our careers.
11. Implement the 4 pillars to find fulfillment life and 7 key steps to finding fulfillment at work.
12. Identify ways to give back and make an action plan to facilitate it.

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Tasks

1. Go through the Study Guide and Distance Learning lessons first and make notes.
2. Identify the key relationships that need to be managed to ensure project success.
3. Determine needs, critical drivers, concerns, and interests for each relationship.
4. Ensure that these relationships are built and maintained on a regular basis, by soliciting ideas, comments, and assessing value.
5. Schedule a meeting for the participants to meet and discuss the workshop within 30 days
6. Participants to share expectations and feedback during the workshop.
7. Set a deadline for determining and analyzing the time commitment for each of the participants.
8. Participants to demonstrate personal presence, get feedback, and make a plan for further development.
9. Participants to experience the challenges of change and apply learnings to the philosophy of leading change.
10. Participants are to complete each exercise fully, actively participate in all of the group exercises and be willing to discuss the process and results with the group.
11. Participants to complete their project by identifying and implementing changes discussed throughout the workshop.
12. Participants to review resources for inspiration and identify at least one new tool for adoption from the provided list.

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Introduction

In the Values and Priorities workshop we dive deep into how clarifying our values and establishing what our priorities are can change our life for the better. It allows us to live a life of integrity and fulfillment.

Values are words that embody what is important to us, providing an answer to the question “What do I value most in my life?” Here is a great definition:

Values are the characteristics of a fully lived life from the inside out.

Even if they are complex and intangible higher-level functions, they are our personal rules and standards. They frequently reflect our views on what is good and bad, right, and wrong. Similarly, they guide our every decision, and their satisfaction or violation can elicit strong emotional reactions.

According to Tony Robbins, values “are like a compass that directs your life.” They motivate and demotivate, and they justify behavior. They frequently refer to emotional states:

• happy
• satisfied
• successful
• compassionate
• loving
• fulfilled

These are our “must-haves” in life, because when we live according to what we most value, we can see that this is the foundation for our beliefs. When our choices are in sync, we experience congruence – “life is good” – and are fulfilled. If we do not meet this standard, we may become angry, fearful, or sad.

We can prioritize our values into core values by selecting our top 3 values. Having the right core values can help us make better decisions, be more productive, achieve more, and, perhaps most importantly, love and be loved. They’re quite significant. And studies have shown that core values have a slew of other advantages.

Priorities are the things that matter to us most. In this workshop, we uncover a powerful process to start identifying our priorities. To effectively manage our time and know what matters while progressing toward your goals, we must have a clear list of priorities. If we take on too many tasks on a regular basis, you may eventually become stressed.

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History

Values are so deeply ingrained in our language, thought, and behavior patterns that philosophers have been fascinated by them for over a thousand years. Nonetheless, they have proven to be so quick-silvery” and complex that, despite their crucial role in human motivation, we are still horribly ignorant of the laws that govern them. (Toffler, 1969)

One of the most perplexing anomalies in the field of consumer research has been the lack of focus on human values. This is especially perplexing given that most serious students of human behavior have long argued that values play an important role in personal, social, and cultural activity. When attitude researchers have used the term “values,” it has frequently been confused with the concept of product attributes. While a few recent studies have found a significant relationship between values and consumer behavior (Scott and Lamont, 1972; Vinson and Munson, 1976; Henry, 1976; Vinson, Scott, and Lamont, 1977), consumer researchers have generally taken a hands-off approach to the value construct.

Marketing practitioners have become highly skilled at creating advertising and mass communication appeals that include allusions to important human values. Indeed, we would argue that marketing appeals have historically been highly value oriented. These individuals to understand what most marketing academics do not: human values play an important role in consumer behavior.

What could account for the disparity between what marketers do and what academics study? One plausible explanation is that academics have almost entirely focused their attention and technical skills on consumers’ more rational beliefs about tangible product attributes and marketing characteristics such as color, price, taste, and availability. A counterargument, but much less widely held, is that practitioners may have forged ahead for years. According to attitude studies, practitioners are appealing to deep, emotion-laden values and providing powerful stimulation to sales.

Maslow advanced his hierarchical groupings of needs in the mid-1950s into those concerned with safety, security, love, self-esteem, and self-actualization (Maslow, 1954). Morris (Handy, 1970) discussed value theory in depth and created a list of thirteen “ways to live,” which were conceptions of the good life that respondents were asked to rate in terms of liking.

If we go back in time, specifically to the 14th century, we can find the first use of the Middle French and Latin equivalent of priority word.

Late 14c., prioritie, “state of being earlier (than something else), prior occurrence or existence,” from Old French priorite (14c.) and directly from Medieval Latin prioritatem (nominative prioritas) “fact or condition of being prior” (source also of Spanish prioridad), from Latin prior (see prior (adj.).

From c. 1400 as “precedence in right, place, or rank.” In 1897 Century, Dictionary wrote “Priority is the state or fact of coming first in order of time; what little use it has beyond this meaning is only a figurative extension,” but in 20c. the sense shifted toward “fact or condition of coming first in importance or requiring immediate attention; thing regarded as more important than another or others.” Wyclif (early 15c.) renders prioritas into (Middle) English as furtherhead.

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Current Position

Today, there has been a large emphasis on the importance of understanding our own personal values and identifying our priorities in order to live a happy life.

In marketing literature, there are numerous indications of a growing interest in personal values, as opposed to product and marketing attributes. The “Second Washington Social Indicators Conference to Explore Business Response to New Values” is one example (Marketing News, 1973). Furthermore, there appears to be a growing body of research on the subject.

Scott and Lamont (1972) demonstrated that global values, product evaluative and descriptive beliefs, and domain-specific values are three distinct but cognitively related variables. Along the Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck lines, Henry (1976) finds significant associations between automobile ownership and personal value orientations. Vinson, Scott, and Lamont (1977) extend Rokeach’s paradigm by seeing values as existing at two distinct levels.

The first level of values, known as “global” values, includes both instrumental and terminal values. The second level is concerned with values that refer to desired product attributes as well as market transactions and behaviors. They are cognitively separate but related to global values, as well as descriptive and evaluative beliefs, and are referred to as “market-specific” or “domain-specific” values.

Any object of interest to a consumer may be defined as a consumer value if it meets the criteria outlined above. It can include any generalized person-centered end-state of existence, mode of behavior, pattern of ideas, grouping of people, biological condition, or direct benefit that is highly valued by the consumer or perceived to be valued by others important to him. He employs it as a criterion for assessing a wide range of other values, objects, activities, and people. It is a long-lasting belief shared by the consumer and many, but not all, other members of his subculture or society. It is acquired and modified early in life through personal, social, and cultural learning, and it plays a critical role in his decision-making.

The concept of priorities is widely used in our day-to-day corporate world, and thus in our personal lives. The issue is that we are losing our ability to discern what is truly important and trying to bend reality as if we could handle more than one priority task at the same time, or perhaps we do not want to appear careless about a task that is currently not a priority. So, our brilliant idea is to label all of our activities as “priority xyz tasks.”

It turns out that it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to make trade-offs between options that appear to be all “priorities.” So, we unconsciously try to do everything, and the result is overwhelm. That is why it is essential to have a proven process to identify clear priorities one at time and develop a plan to accomplish each task.

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Future Outlook

When we consider our values in all things especially in decision making, we can be sure to remain in integrity and be in alignment with what we know is right. We will approach decisions with clarity and confidence knowing that we’re making the best choice for our current situation.

“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Ghandi

Making decisions based on our values is not always easy, but it is always right. Identifying and understanding our values is a challenging yet important exercise. Our values are a central part of who we are and who we want to become. Becoming more aware of these important factors in our life, will allow us to use them as a guide to make the best choice in any situation. Some of life’s most difficult decisions are really about determining what we value most. When many options seem reasonable, it’s helpful and comforting to rely on our values and to use them as a strong guiding force to point us in the right direction.

When we’re getting clear on who we want to work with and how we want to serve them, it is necessary to base this on our priorities and our values to remain in integrity and be fulfilled through our work.

Putting our priorities and values first, in everything you do, will allow us to live a life of joy, abundance and peace.

Creating boundaries in all areas of our lives will allow us to honor and protect what we hold dear.

Successful leaders must be passionate about what they do, what they want to do, and why they want to do it. This will propel us towards a goal even when it appears impossible, but this is only true for those who lack passion.

Making sure our values and priorities are considered in everything we do and having a system to identify honor and protect them is crucial to our success as a human and a professional.

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Executive Summary

Clarifying our values and establishing what our priorities are can change our life for the better allowing us to live a life of integrity and fulfillment. Values are our personal rules and standards. They frequently reflect our views on what is good and bad, right, and wrong. Similarly, they guide our every decision, and their satisfaction or violation can elicit strong emotional reactions. When we get clear on what our values are we can use them to guide us in life and help in our decision making.

Priorities are the things that are most important to you. This workshop will teach a powerful process for identifying our priorities. We must have a clear list of priorities in order to effectively manage our time and know what matters while progressing toward our goals. It is common to become stressed if we take on too many tasks on a regular basis.

Setting boundaries in all aspects of our lives will allow us to honor and protect what is important to us.

When we are clear on our values, our passion, our why and our priorities we become unstoppable.

There are 12 courses (or focus areas) in the Values and Priorities Workshop.

Here they are:

1. Defining Values – Our values are the standards by which we live by – the things that you hold dear in your daily life and work. They (should) determine our priorities, and they’re probably the indicators we use to see if our life is going the way we want it to. When our actions and behaviors reflect our values, life is usually good – we’re satisfied and content. However, when these do not align with our personal values, things feel… off. This can be a major source of dissatisfaction. In this course we uncover how to define your values so that our decisions moving forward can align with them allowing for harmony and joy.

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2. Your Why – Our why is what defines us. It is what drives us and motivates us every single day. d. It makes you the best person we can be. In this course we will clarify our why and how to use it as a guide for happiness.

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3. Passion vs. Purpose – In this lesson we will take a look at the difference between passion and purpose. Our passion fuels us and is personal our purpose bigger than ourselves and is about serving others. Having a purpose in life is associated with all kinds of benefits. Research suggests that purpose is tied to having better health, longevity, and even financial success. It feels good to have a sense of purpose, knowing that you are using your skills to help others in a way that matters to you. This lesson allows you to reveal your purpose.

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4. Prioritizing Priorities – Having a system in place to identify our priorities in our lives and at work is essential. For most people, their priorities are in a constant state of flux, shifting with the various demands that crop up on a daily basis. In order to prioritize your daily tasks effectively, you’ll need a clear picture of the bigger goals and values in your life. In this course we will go through a highly effective process to map out our priorities so we can be more productive and fulfilled.

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5. Personal Boundaries – Once we have identified our values and priorities it is crucial to create boundaries to honor and protect them. In order to become an expert at setting and being comfortable with personal boundaries, you have to practice. Luckily, in this course we have 9 amazing ways for you to get started and to start reclaiming your own life with establishing clear personal boundaries.

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6. Relationship Boundaries – Boundaries in relationships can help us by enhancing our sense of self. They enable us to separate our identity, feelings, and needs from those of our partners, family, friends, and colleagues. Boundaries aid in the development of healthy relationships by outlining needs and respecting limits. In this course we will take a deep dive into how to create boundaries in all of your relationships.

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7. Workplace Boundaries – Many professional women especially millennials have found themselves in a precarious position as a result of corporate oppression, professional duress, and social anxiety. All we can do for the time being is maintain a healthy boundary so they can avoid overwork, burnout, and stress. Setting professional boundaries at work entails developing healthy professional practices for yourself. These boundaries can often help you stay productive and happy at work while also allowing you to better separate your work and personal lives. Learn exactly how to do this in this powerful course.

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8. Yes or No – Knowing when to say Yes and when to say know can be difficult at times. In this course, we will reveal some guidelines you can follow to help make your decision easily and confidently.

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9. Success Environment – Is your workplace designed for success? You may not realize it, but your surroundings play a significant role in your success. Your surroundings and what (or who) occupies those surroundings comprise your environment. Setting up your environment for success will make it much easier to embrace new opportunities and drive true success for yourself, your business, and your future. Find out exactly how in this riveting lesson.

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10. Workplace Habits – Successful people frequently attribute their success to specific habits. Some actions, when practiced on a daily basis, can assist us in maintaining focus and completing workplace tasks. In this course, we will look at six examples of good workplace habits that we can cultivate in order to be more productive and advance in our careers.

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11. Finding Fulfillment – Each individual has their own path, their own definition of happiness. Work is what we spend the majority of our adult lives doing. It is important to make sure that your work allows you to utilize your gifts and talents as well as meet your financial goals. In this course we will cover the 4 pillars to find fulfillment in life and the key steps to finding fulfillment at work.

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12. Making a Difference – Many people believe that they lack the ability to make a difference in the world. The truth is that each of us has been placed in this world to contribute and make a difference in our own unique way. It doesn’t have to be anything out of the ordinary. It simply has to be something you do with the intention of ‘doing good.’ In this course we reveal ways that you can make a difference in the world by being uniquely you!

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Impact for Positive Change

At the conclusion of each workshop, we will focus our collective attention on how you, as a leader, will put what we’ve learned into practice in your business. Impact for positive change means putting what you’ve learned into practice and taking action to make a significant difference. That starts with a strong desire to change and reflection on what you’re going to do differently. It’s also crucial to consider how you’ll involve people in your organization in the discussion about what you’ve learnt and make requests for what you need from them in order to succeed. Not only will your formal team be involved, but so will your cross-functional colleagues. How will you be collaborating to ensure all the women in your company have everything they need to succeed?

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