Your Key Values represent what is important to you in life. Knowing your Values helps you understand what drives you, what you enjoy, what inspires you and what you would like more of. Understanding your values may guide you in the choices you make, or help you understand your responses to situations. For example, if you value family you might try to spend more time with them, if you value independence you might feel overwhelmed when you don’t have your own space, or choices are made for you. Understanding the values of those around you, can help understand the differences in the way people behave or respond.
Knowing how your personal values overlap with the values of your workplace can help motivate you and find more fulfillment at work, or even find the right place to work. Important - some values tend to be quite stable over time, whilst others may change. For example, at the start of your career, success and finances or adventure might be your Key Values. At other times family or friends might be more important. Your Values can also be situational eg. what's true for you at work may not be true for you at home.
You can find different exercises to explore values and strengths within my “Doing Things Differently” workbook.
Doing Things Differently Complete Exercises.pdf
The-Power-of-No-Workbook_with logo etc.docx
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra. This book reflects that the reality of career change for most of us is not waking up one day saying "I want to be an X now" and making a plan to get there, but rather a loop of trying out different "selves" in big or small ways, alongside more fundamental changes to our priorities and views. Lots of case studies included. It made me feel reassured and inspired about my career change process.
“Who is in your personal boardroom?” by Zella King and Amanda Scott