The Six Questions
To reach your full potential in life and leadership, you need to get clarity on what’s most important to you. When you identify your definitive personal core values and align your life to them, you’ll find yourself making better decisions, spending more of your time on what matters to you, and making a bigger impact on the people around you.
To start this process, reflect on these six questions and write down your answers. The common themes between your responses will be the foundation of your core values:
- In what non-work environments are you highly engaged?
- In what professional roles or jobs did you do your best work?
- What help, advice or qualities do others come to you for?
- What would you want said about you in your eulogy?
- When were you disengaged in a personal or professional setting?
- What qualities in other people do you struggle with the most?
More About Core Values
For a deeper dive into personal and organizational core values, check out the following resources:
- The Compass Within by Robert Glazer, a parable that guides readers to find their definitive list of core values. If you preorder the book in hardcover, you can get Robert’s core values discovery course for free when you submit your order confirmation.
- If you think your organizational core values could use a refresh (or overhaul), Robert and his team offer Organizational Core Values Consulting Projects.
