Coaching practices for Values Based Tech

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• 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
• Whenever I try to clean house I ask "is this useful?"
• 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
• My budget is just neutral buckets
• I’m trying to win a client and I keep guarding my actual expertise behind a paywall, but I sense the way to earn their trust is to just give them something genuinely useful up front

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
3. Screen tools against your values
   Admit a technology only if it strongly supports something you deeply value — and is the best way to do so.
   Digital Minimalism, Made Practical
4. Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
   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.
5. 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
6. 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
7. Give information or insight freely as a reciprocity signal
   Sharing real expertise before any transaction signals trustworthiness and activates the giving norm.
   The Rule of Reciprocity, Made Practical
8. The values–behavior gap check
   Audit the last week: which of your top values did your actual decisions honor?
   Values Card Sort
9. Develop second-tier, systems-level thinking
   Practice holding multiple value systems as simultaneously valid rather than competing for dominance.
   Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
10. Apply explicit values criteria before reinstating any technology
    Reinstate a technology only if it clearly serves something you genuinely value — not merely because you used to have it.
    The Digital Declutter, Made Practical

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