Coaching practices for Values Based Technology Use

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

• Whenever I try to clean house I ask "is this useful?"
• 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 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
• I keep treating my way of seeing things as the right one and everyone else’s as a problem to overcome, and I want to genuinely hold that what the people I clash with value is real and needed
• The break is ending and my reflex is just to reinstall everything I had before

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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
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. Develop second-tier, systems-level thinking
   Practice holding multiple value systems as simultaneously valid rather than competing for dominance.
   Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Values Bullseye, Made Practical
   The values bullseye, developed by Tobias Lundgren within the ACT framework, is a visual exercise in which you rate how close your current behavior is to the bullseye in four life domains — work, relationships, personal growth, and leisure. It converts abstract values into a concrete gap-analysis, making it easier to choose one committed action that moves you toward the center. The exercise is part of the established ACT toolkit; direct evidence for the instrument is limited but the underlying ACT framework has substantial support.
9. Set explicit values-based rules for each technology you keep
   For every digital tool you reintroduce, write down exactly which value it serves and under what conditions.
   Attention Reclaiming: Digital Minimalism in Practice
10. The values–behavior gap check
    Audit the last week: which of your top values did your actual decisions honor?
    Values Card Sort

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