Coaching practices for Values Based Hiring
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
- 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 look around at the people I’ve hired and they all think exactly like me
- My budget is just neutral buckets
- I walked out of that sales pitch about to say yes to the "middle" option, and only later did it hit me that the pricey one they showed first was probably there just to make this one feel reasonable
Practices that may help
- Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - 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 - Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
Values-based spending is the practice of deliberately allocating money toward what you have identified as genuinely important to you — and cutting spending that does not reflect those priorities. It is not minimalism or frugality; it is a decision framework that uses your stated values as the filter for every financial choice. The evidence base is primarily from financial psychology and hedonic wellbeing research, not clinical trials. - Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Design conscious spending categories around your values
Replace generic budget categories with value-named buckets so every allocation is self-evidently justified or not.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Recognize when contrast is being used on you
Awareness of the contrast principle is the antidote — evaluate options against an independent standard, not the presented sequence.
The Contrast Principle, Made Practical - The forced-rank sort
Write your top 20 candidate values on cards, then sort them ruthlessly until you have a ranked top five.
Values Card Sort - Use genius mapping in onboarding
Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Become a talent magnet: attract and deploy people at their best
Multipliers find what people do naturally well and put them in conditions where that genius is essential.
Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
Related concerns
- Person Organization Fit Hiring
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
- Hire For Why Not Skills
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
- Hiring For Character
Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
- Values Based Culture
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
Make core values operational, not decorative
- Strategy Person Fit
Adapt your approach to someone else’s style without abandoning your own.
Style-flex without losing authenticity
- Values Based Direction
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.
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