Coaching practices for Modeling Values Leadership
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I stand up and tell my team what we value, but I’ve started to wonder whether my own choices actually match the words
- We’ve got nice-sounding values up on the wall and the website, but they do nothing in the room when a real hiring or judgment call is on the table
- I’ve been pouring energy into vision and inspiration and it’s landing as hollow
- I pour everything into one part of my life
- Working on my values feels like an endless aspiration with no scoreboard
Practices that may help
- Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Make core values operational, not decorative
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Map your values across the four life domains
Write one core value statement for each domain — work, relationships, personal growth, leisure — before touching the bullseye.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Review the bullseye weekly to track real movement
Re-mark each domain every week and compare — small outward or inward shifts are your feedback loop.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Values clarification: what matters most to you?
Identify 3–5 core values — not what you should value, but what actually matters when life is stripped back.
Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical - Lead from the relationship building domain — hold the team together
People strong in relationship building are the glue that holds a team’s cohesion under pressure.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Build the flexibility to switch styles
The skill the model actually demands is style range — most leaders overuse one default.
Situational Leadership, Made Practical - Apply the Stockdale Paradox to teams and leadership
As a leader or team member under pressure, model the simultaneous holding of faith and brutal facts — it is contagious in both directions.
The Stockdale Paradox, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Authentic Leadership
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
- Healthy Expression Of Values
Every vMEME has a healthy and a pathological form — know which you’re expressing.
Distinguish healthy from unhealthy expressions of each level
- How To Live Company Values
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
Make core values operational, not decorative
- Role Model Leadership
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
- Acting On Values
Values-based action in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) means choosing behaviors that are consistent with what matters most to you — your values — rather than behaviors driven by avoidance of pain or approval-seeking. ACT distinguishes values (directions, ongoing) from goals (destinations, finishable); the emphasis is on the quality of action in the present rather than outcome attainment. ACT has robust meta-analytic support; values-based action is identified as a core mechanism.
- Core Values Excavation
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
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