What is Competing Values Framework? 10 Coaching Practices to Try
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Practices that may help
- Use the bullseye to resolve competing values
When two values pull in different directions, the bullseye shows you which domain is most neglected and most in need of attention.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Develop second-tier, systems-level thinking
Practice holding multiple value systems as simultaneously valid rather than competing for dominance.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Rank your top values
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Stick to Values: act consistently with what actually matters to you
Before compromising a position, check whether the compromise conflicts with a core value — and hold if it does.
FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships - Use Competing when speed or safety matters more than buy-in
Competing — high assertive, low cooperative — is appropriate when the decision is urgent, high-stakes, and not open for debate.
The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) - Resolving a decision with two competing values
When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
Values Card Sort - 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. - 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 - Competing (assertive, uncooperative)
Pursue your own position firmly when speed, principle, or stakes outweigh the relationship cost.
The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles - Defuse from thoughts that block values-based action
Identify the specific thoughts that stop you from acting on your values, and apply defusion rather than argument.
Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m torn between two things I care about
- 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
- I’ve got a short list of values but they’re all just sitting there as equals, and the second two of them collide in real life
- When the pressure builds in a conversation, I cave on something I actually believe in just to make the discomfort stop
- There’s a real call that has to be made right now with no time to build consensus, and I keep softening it and hedging to keep everyone happy
Related concerns
- Competing Values Framework
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
Rank your top values
- Competing Values Resolution
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
- Values Conflict Act
Before compromising a position, check whether the compromise conflicts with a core value — and hold if it does.
Stick to Values: act consistently with what actually matters to you
- Values Conflict Decision Making
When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
Resolving a decision with two competing values
- Conflict Priority
Pursue your own position firmly when speed, principle, or stakes outweigh the relationship cost.
Competing (assertive, uncooperative)
- Values Based Action Act During Conflict
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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