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来自 University of Virginia 的课程

Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values

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University of Virginia

Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values

56 个评分

This course offers an action-oriented introduction to Giving Voice to Values (or GVV), an exciting new approach to values-driven leadership development in the workplace, in business education and in life. GVV is not about persuading people to be more ethical, but instead it starts from the premise that most of us already want to act on our values, but that we also want to feel that we have a reasonable chance of doing so effectively. Through positive, real life examples, pre-scripting, rehearsal and peer coaching, GVV builds the skill, the confidence and likelihood that we will act on our values more often and more successfully. Based on research and practice, with over 1,000 pilots in educational settings and companies on all seven continents, GVV helps answer the questions: “What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?” You will come away from this course with an expanded toolkit, as well as practice, in a variety of methods and techniques for voicing and enacting your own values and principles. You will develop and practice leadership skills in "peer coaching” with other learners. Through cases and stories based on recognizable workplace, classroom and life values conflicts, you will apply the GVV techniques and “re-frames”, expanding your repertoire for possible action as well as identifying and rehearsing responses that are likely to be most effective. Through this practice, you will gain greater confidence and competence in voicing and enacting your values effectively.

从本节课中

Recognizing and Learning From Your Success and Failures

What are some of your own individual successes and failures at effectively voicing and acting on your values? What conditions made it easier for you to speak and act, and which conditions made it more difficult? We will spend week two of the course recognizing and reflecting on your responses to these questions so that you can gain some insights into your own strengths, abilities, and personal styles that empower you to act on your values. You'll do so by continuing to explore the pillars of GVV by taking an in depth look at Choice, Normalization, and Self-Knowledge and Alignment. Often people do not act on their values because they felt as though they had no choice. We learn that we often have more options than we believe we do. The Normalization pillar helps us perceive values conflicts as a normal everyday part of our lives. The Self-Knowledge and Alignment pillar helps us understand how to identify and use our strengths and abilities to effectively act on our values. Finally, we will hear a story about Ceilia and how she framed a challenge that played to her strengths to address a values conflict in her work. By the end of this module, you'll be able to identify and consider your own strengths and preferences for values expression in your career and your broader life.

Week 2 Introduction3:03

A Tale of Two Stories4:23

Debriefing a Tale of Two Stories and GVV Pillar Three: CHOICE4:48

Obedience to Authority and Choice7:20

与讲师见面

Mary Gentile
Creator/Director, Giving Voice To Values and Professor of Practice
Darden School of Business

So welcome to week two of our course together.

I'm so delighted to be back together with you.

Today, I'm going to introduce you to

the core foundational exercise of giving voice to values.

This exercise is called,

"A Tale of Two Stories".

This is probably the exercise that's used most

widely around the world and in educational settings,

in corporate settings and in other organizational settings.

This exercise is important for a couple of reasons.

One thing is that it's going to help the user, the learner, you,

to get a chance to reflect upon and get some insights into your own strengths,

your personal style when it comes to acting on your values.

You're going to learn some things about yourself.

The second reason that this exercise is particularly

useful in organizations and in corporate settings for example,

is that it's going to give you a chance to identify some of the conditions,

the cultural factors that make it easier for people to act effectively,

in ethical ways on their values and also the things that make it more difficult.

So what we're going to do is to ask you to reflect upon some times when

you have acted upon or failed to act upon your own values.

We're going to ask you to think about what made

it easier for you to act in those situations,

what made it more difficult and then we're going to have

a chance to debrief and learn from that experience.

But let me first just take a moment to explain

the exercise to you and then you'll get a chance to do it yourself.

So the first thing is that I'm going to ask you to take

a moment to think about a time in your work experience,

in your professional lives or in your life in general when you

have been pressured to act in a way that conflicted with your own values.

It might have been a direct set of instructions from a boss or it may for example,

have been some more implicit pressure from your friends,

from your colleagues, from your customers.

Whatever it was, you felt pressured to act in a way that conflicted with your own values.

And then once you've done that we're going to ask you to answer four questions.

First, we're going to ask you to think about what did you do and what happened,

what impact did it have.

We're going to ask you to jot that down.

The second question we're going to ask you is what motivated you,

why did you do this.

The third thing we're going to ask you is how satisfied are

you with the actions you took and the results.

Is there something that you would like to have done differently?

And finally, we're going to ask you to think about

what enabled you to act on your values in these ways,

what made it easier and also what disabled you,

what made it more difficult.

I'm going to ask you to jot down those enablers and disablers.

So that's the first part of the exercise.

It's called, "The Tale of Two Stories" though.

So the second thing we're going to ask you to do is to

reflect a time when you also felt pressure to

act in a way that conflicted with your own values

and you failed to act on your values effectively.

And we're going to ask you to basically do the same thing,

to jot down what happened and what impact did it have.

To think about what motivated you to act in the way you did or you didn't.

To ask you again how satisfied are you with the outcomes.

Is there something that you wish you had done differently,

something else you wish you had said?

And then finally, again to identify what were the enablers,

the things that made it easier for you to act on your values and what were the disablers,

the things that made it more difficult.

All right. So once you have done this,

we'll come back and we'll do

some interesting debrief of it and talk about what we can learn from it.

But right now what I'd like to ask you to do is to go

to your required course materials for week two and

define the tale of two stories and to take a few minutes to respond to this exercise.

Take your time.

It's actually more challenging

and more thought-provoking than it may seem on the surface.

But the more time you take with it,

the more you're going to get out of it. Looking forward to it.

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