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Telling Your Story Values Decision Making
- 2. Telling your Story: Personal Values and Decision Making
- 3. How to tell your story with confidence!
- 4. … but what is your story?
- 5. “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” Steve Jobs
- 6. “While life can only be understood backward, it has to be lived forward.” Soren Kierkegaard
- 7. Spending time connecting the dots backwards can help us uncover our values.
- 8. Why are values important?
- 9. Values help you make better decisions...
- 10. … and they help you to trust in those decisions.
- 11. Trusting in your decisions...
- 12. … helps you to tell your story as it is at this current moment in time...
- 13. … even if you don’t know how the dots will join up.
- 20. Stay in Sheffield Better salary Peak District for dogs! New friends Not Social Enterprise Move to London Low salary Dogs would be sad Old friends Social Enterprise
- 23. From this story and the various decision points… I can pull out my own values
- 24. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) My values...
- 25. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) My values...
- 26. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) My values...
- 27. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) My values...
- 28. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) Not conforming to society’s expectations (Leaving London) My values...
- 29. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) Not conforming to society’s expectations (Leaving London) Sense of adventure / taking risks (Moving to Peru) My values...
- 30. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) Not conforming to society’s expectations (Leaving London) Sense of adventure / taking risks (Moving to Peru) Committing to doing a job really well / high standards (Awamaki) My values...
- 31. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) Not conforming to society’s expectations (Leaving London) Sense of adventure / taking risks (Moving to Peru) Committing to doing a job really well / high standards (Awamaki) Always learning and improving (Founder Centric) My values...
- 32. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) Not conforming to society’s expectations (Leaving London) Sense of adventure / taking risks (Moving to Peru) Committing to doing a job really well / high standards (Awamaki) Always learning and improving (Founder Centric) Use my free time to give back (Sheff startups / socents) My values...
- 33. Doing what I love (GCSEs and A-Levels) Communicating and interacting with people (Languages at B’ham) Helping others (Master’s in Lat Am Development) Working for things I believe in (Fairtrade Foundation) Not conforming to society’s expectations (Leaving London) Sense of adventure / taking risks (Moving to Peru) Committing to doing a job really well / high standards (Awamaki) Always learning and improving (Founder Centric) Use my free time to give back (Sheff startups / socents) My values...
- 34. Remember: you can always write yourself a new story!
- 35. Exercise: Defining my values 1. Spend a moment ‘joining the dots backwards’. 2. Identify moments where you have had to make difficult decisions. 3. What were the values behind those decisions? 4. What are the values that are most important to you in life? 5. Who do you enjoy working with? What are their values? 6. Who do you actively avoid working with? What values do they have or lack?
Editor's Notes
- This evening is all about finding your voice and telling your story with confidence. It’s exactly the sort of event I would have signed up to come along to a year ago.
- … but what is my story? ‘How can I tell it with confidence if I don’t know what it is?’ For all of us, but I think especially for women, our story is so much bigger than our job title. So, how do we figure out what our story is? It helps to spend a bit of time reflecting on this, and we can find clues in our past.
- You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
- Similar to Steve Jobs quote. So let’s spend some time looking backwards before looking forwards.
- A year ago today I moved back from Peru after living there for 3.5 years. 4000m above sea level. I was the Director of a fair trade social enterprise called Awamaki, and we worked with women weavers and knitters in this community and 5 others. Our aim was to provide these women with a source of income through the sale of their woven and knitted goods, and in doing so, revalorise the weaving tradition and increase the women’s self-esteem. I was managing a team of 15 American and Peruvian staff members, was responsible for the long term strategy and short term problem solving, managing the finances etc. Pretty cool job right? But how did I get here?
- DECISIONS: GCSEs: Mum’s advice to do what subjects I enjoyed. So I took languages instead of Business Studies. A-Levels: Continued with French, Spanish, History and English Language - would give me the opportunity to travel VALUES: Doing what I love, looking towards a future in which I could travel.
- DECISION: Study French and Spanish at Birmingham VALUES: Being able to communicate with people in their own language opened up my eyes and gave me an insight into people’s lives. DECISION: Study GLAD at London VALUES: I wanted to do something ‘useful’ with my language, I wanted to continue communicating with people, I wanted to give back, I wanted to travel.
- First job Cat and Narinder, Darjeeling, India. Academic person = Policy dept. DECISION: Applied for Commercial Relations even though it was sales and account management. VALUES: Working for a company that I believed in. See what I could learn from the job.
- Bored of FTF - wanted to move to Lat Am Applied for all jobs in Lat Am. Got a terrible feeling about the woman running the non-profit (didn’t want to wait for me to start the job) but against my instincts took the job anyway. DECISION: Taking the job in Peru, leaving everything behind. VALUE: Sense of adventure, willingness to take risks ANTI-VALUE: Working for someone I didn’t respect
- DECISION: Committing to stay for another two years minimum in Peru VALUES: The desire to do a job really well, see it through to completion, immerse myself further in Peruvian culture
- DECISION: Work for Founder Centric rather than take the internship at OnPurpose. VALUE: Being flexible, continuing to learn, being comfortable with the job not 100% aligning with my true interests in socent, Situation in life also influences our decisions.
- DECISION: Spend my time getting involved in the startup and socent community in Sheffield VALUE: give something back to the community, immerse myself in Sheffield My story now? Still a work in progress.
- Best of all, I get to walk my dogs in the peak district
- Kristina’s story: boyfriend of 6 years ended things, she moved back in with her parents in Chicago. Dreams of moving to NYC shattered. She had to write herself a new story - taking some time out, looking for the next big opportunity.