This year, we are celebrating 20 years of working full-time in the values
field and with the AVI (A Values Inventory). To mark this occasion we are
offering you a chance to explore your values via the AVI and to set Values-Based
New Year Resolutions (Meaningful Objectives) for 2008.
A special AVI Report has been developed specifically to help set Meaningful
Objectives based on your responses to the AVI. It is available until 20 January
2008 at the introductory price of $AUD 15.00.
To take advantage of this offer, follow the instructions at
www.minessence.net.
Accredited AVI Consultants are welcome to take advantage of this offer too -
at no cost - just use your usual AVI link, then go to the Individual-Reports
page of your MissionControl and use the SMO code to print your Setting
Meaningful Objectives AVI.
Below is an extract from the introductory page of the new Setting
Meaningful Objectives AVI:
When I’ve observed clients who are extremely productive,
I’ve found that simply completing a list of actions isn’t enough for them.
What’s important is that their actions are linked and driven by their
Meaningful Objectives. These clients rarely do anything that doesn’t
relate to one of their objectives.
Meaningful Objectives are your North Star, your guiding
light, and your reference point for success or failure. Without meaning,
objectives become dry and nothing more than text on a to-do list that you
might (or might not) look at every now and again…
You’d be amazed at how many people I’ve coached, at every
organizational level, who don’t have Meaningful Objectives. Even if they do,
their objectives are often unclear. Identifying objectives that are
meaningful, and clarifying them so that they are specific, is a crucial step
in helping you manage your life. As Lily Tomlin once said, 'I’ve always wanted
to be somebody. I guess I should’ve been more specific!' [Sally McGhee]
Before you can set Meaningful Objectives, you must know, with crystal
clarity, what your priority values are. The AVI process is designed to
facilitate your achievement of this clarity.
Unlike competencies, which can be classified as skills, knowledge and
attitudes (i.e. the ability to perform activities effectively within an
occupation or function to the standard required in employment), values are our
lifestyle priorities. They express our wants, desires and preferences. For most
people, they are their unconscious motivators.
A key characteristic of successful people is that their values are
conscious motivators - i.e. successful people know what their values are.
Researchers over the past 30 years have identified 128 values. They form the
building blocks of human nature and relationships. These 128 values cover all
that could potentially be important to people, for example:
- Play and Recreation
- Knowledge, Discovery, and Insight
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Human Rights
- Environmental Responsibility
- Achievement and Success
Your priority values are fall into in three categories, Vision, Focus, and
Foundation:
- Vision values are your motivators. [The internal dialogue you have
between the world-view associated with your Vision values, and the world-view
associated with your Foundation values, creates the reality you experience.]
- Focus values are the values you would normally want to put most of
your conscious energy into.
- Foundation values demand attention. [Make sure you have strategies
in place to enable you to live your
foundation values without the need for devoting much conscious energy to
them.]
By definition, only objectives, directly related to living your values,
can be Meaningful Objectives.
You will only follow through and actualize your New Year Resolutions if they are
based on your own values.