"Our values reflect what is important to us. They are a handy way of describing our individual motivations. Along with beliefs, values are the natural factors that determine how we make decisions."
Values can be positive or limiting (stemming from fear). For example, honesty, trust and responsibility are positive values, while blame, revenge and manipulation are potentially limiting or fear values.
Understanding our own values helps us to better understand who we are and why we behave the way we do. For example, if someone undermines one of your values, it can hurt your feelings; chances are you'll experience grief if the value x important to you is not respected by someone else. Similarly, if you make a decision that goes against one of your values, it can lead to a feeling of insecurity or hesitation about the decision itself, because you are not acting according to who you really are. Barrett Values Centre
With this in mind, let's return to partnership in a firm.
Discuss honestly with your future partner from the start what each believes in. List at least 3 values each and see if you have anything in common. This is all the more important as the company should be built on values for which you, the partners, can then be role models in the eyes of your employees and collaborators.
Example - if one of the two business partners has the ultimate value of freedom, i.e. he wants to be able to decide for himself, not necessarily to consult on every issue, and the other believes supremely in the idea of teamwork, you have a contradiction.
If one thinks employees are partners and the other thinks they are tools to be used, you have a contradiction again.
These contradictions will be seen by employees and sabotage the company from within. And if you have no employees and it's just you in the firm, and partners and employees, you'll end up pulling one over and one under. In time, and not very long, the partnership will break up.
I invite you to stop thinking about it. To put the spotlight on your values first for yourself. Can you say with your hand on your heart that you know your top 3 most important values to you?
If it's easier for you, take the Barett Values Centre quiz which I personally really liked. It takes 5 minutes.
THE TEST
I opened my email wondering if it had arrived. I was expecting a report on my values, the report from a test sent by a friend. Reading the report, it hit me: just for today I had set out to write about values. Literally I had proposed, that is, I had written this title in my planning.
How big should the timing of the universe be? Should I get this link over the weekend from a friend, take the test, and then get it on Monday, May 11, just as I was going to write about values?
I'm guessing you've experienced situations of such timing or magical alignment of people and events too! It's fascinating!
Since the magical opportunity has arisen, I would ask you: what is the word that describes for you a supreme value in your life?
I'll start: freedom!
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