00:00:00: Introduction
00:00:38: All about values
00:03:15: A fantastic values software
00:05:53: Forming an AI immediate
00:08:38: A software for groups
00:09:57: Remaining ideas
Helen Tupper: Hello, I am Helen.
Sarah Ellis: And I am Sarah.
Helen Tupper: And that is the Squiggly Careers podcast. And you’re listening to day two of our Squiggly Careers Ability Dash, the place immediately we’re going to be speaking about values. Extra on that in a second, however possibly you’ve got began at day two of our dash and also you’re considering, what is that this? So, it is a five-day studying expertise to assist you and your improvement. And possibly a very powerful factor is that you’re signed up for sprinting so that you simply get the each day summaries, which may have the entire hyperlinks to instruments we discuss immediately, prompts you can lower and paste to make this simpler for you, and we have screenshots so you’ll be able to see the right way to get began with a number of the issues that we will be speaking about.
Sarah Ellis: So, what are values and why do they matter within the context of your Squiggly Profession? So, values are what inspire and drive you, they’re what makes you, you. You do not have work values and residential values, you simply have what’s most essential to you. And I feel with values, they’ll really feel a bit summary or typically a bit fluffy like, “What are these ‘worth’ issues?” However the purpose that it issues to spend a while fascinated with your values, definitely from my very own expertise, is once you perceive your actual drivers, I feel you simply make hundreds higher choices. And in a Squiggly Profession we have now extra selections, extra choices about the place we would go, what we need to do, and there is extra change and uncertainty. So, once you perceive your values, I feel they’re a superb filter in your future, “Ought to I keep on this firm? Ought to I do one thing totally different? What jobs do I need to do? Who do I need to work with? Who do I need to work for?”
If I take into consideration my greatest Squiggly Profession selections, once I’ve used my values, I’ve made what may appear to be courageous choices to different folks, however have really been sensible choices for me. And when I’ve ignored possibly my values and received distracted by the shiny objects, it has by no means labored out.
Helen Tupper: I feel that I agree with you totally about realizing values. And I feel that it is most likely one of many 5 abilities that we will discuss within the dash that I am most personally obsessed with, due to the distinction it is made to my improvement. And I feel it connects very well with the subject we’ll discuss tomorrow on the dash, which is confidence. I feel I’m extra assured because of the readability I’ve in my values, as a result of we speak concerning the quotes, we did it really in a sequence over the summer time, that considered one of my quotes is, “Working your individual race”, and that basically motivates me. And I can do this as a result of I’ve received such readability on my values, like what makes me, me, what motivates and drives me. So, I feel there is a very nice hyperlink with the ability we’ll discuss tomorrow.
Sarah Ellis: And one of many issues that we all know as a workforce is that once you perceive one another’s values, you collaborate higher, you are extra empathetic as a workforce. And infrequently, we’ll discuss in a workforce or in an organisation, we should always begin with the why, , Simon Sinek would inform us to start out with the why. And in a lot of methods, he is proper, and you must hearken to him speaking to Helen on the podcast in case you’ve not earlier than. However I typically suppose in a workforce setting, it is actually helpful to start out with the who, who all of us are, what motivates us, what’s essential to us, as a result of then we simply work higher collectively. And also you spend a lot time working in a workforce, understanding one another I feel is simple to overlook, however once you find time for it, it does make a distinction.
Helen Tupper: And we have a really enjoyable workforce train proper on the finish of the podcast immediately. We have a very enjoyable approach you can discuss values in groups. However we even have some good instruments.
Sarah Ellis: You are so enthusiastic about this software.
Helen Tupper: I really feel like that is the most effective software, I feel, we have discovered on the dash, and we have discovered some good ones. However I completely love the software that we’re going to suggest all people tries out, it is the values.institute, and it’s a software which is able to show you how to to establish what your values are. I already had lots of confidence in what my values are, so I used to be actually intrigued as, from a clean piece of paper, how shut did it get.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah.
Helen Tupper: So, it should ask you a sequence of questions, after which what you get is a few actually, actually wealthy studying sources out of it. So, it won’t solely let you know what your values are in response to the issues that you have answered, so for instance, mine got here out as, “Achievement, studying and collaboration”. It is fairly near what I’d maintain as my values. It isn’t good, however I feel it is positively nearer than lots of different issues that I’d see. So, it should show you how to with that. However I feel the actually helpful factor on this software is, it then has three alternative ways in which you’ll put that perception into motion.
So, the primary is it offers you a little bit of a profile. So, for every of the values, it talks about it in a bit extra element so that you could get extra readability. I feel that is actually helpful when you’re discussing your values, as a result of I not often go as much as any person and say, “Hello, my identify is Helen and I’ve received a price of feat”. What I’ll typically do is use the descriptions to debate it, it simply feels a bit extra pure, so it offers you a few of these phrases. Then, there is a bit on observe, and you may choose one of many values, and you may choose whether or not you need to do one thing in a day, one thing in every week otherwise you desire a mindset shift, and it’ll generate you an motion. I am like, “That is nice”. So, you get actually particular actions. After which, there is a bit on problem. So, you kind out a problem. So, for instance, I mentioned, “I actually do not like my enterprise accomplice. I am actually struggling to work along with her. She’s actually tough”. I did not do this one! However you set in no matter problem you need, after which it makes use of your values to then suggest you a approach to reply to that problem.
I simply discover it very insightful, actually sensible. It is free, and it is simply the most effective factor I’ve seen to assist values. I am an enormous advocate of this software.
Sarah Ellis: And one of many issues I really actually preferred about it was it additionally felt fairly playful. So, it gave me an extended record of issues that may very well be my values, requested me to do the prioritising, which we all the time encourage folks to do. However once more, it is very fast to do as a result of you’ll be able to type of transfer across the phrases on the display. And to your level, I like the truth that it went past simply producing phrases. There’s fairly just a few totally different instruments that do this. However to me, numerous the worth on this felt like, properly, that is possibly what I’d go and do now, that is the motion I’d go and take. And that is the inspiration for the immediate that then we used. So, I really used Gemini for this one, I used to be like, I’ve not used that one but, so why not.
Helen Tupper: Give it a go.
Sarah Ellis: Give it a go. And once more, I requested it to behave as a Squiggly Profession coach, be excessive care, excessive problem. I instructed it what my values are. So I mentioned, “My values, that are what inspire and drive me, are achievement concepts, studying, and selection. I might rating every worth 7, 6, 5 and seven out of 10 for the way a lot they present up in my work in the intervening time, and I might like to extend every rating by one on that scale. Are you able to give me three concepts for the way to try this for every worth and current the concepts in a desk?”
Helen Tupper: And also you pushed it.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, additionally I’ve accomplished a course on prompting, clearly. So, I’ve received rather a lot higher at prompting. Thanks, David Hieatt at DO Lectures, very accessible prompting course. I feel it is about £26 and I used to be like, “That was £26 very properly spent”. And that is why my prompts are nearly as good as they’re. And in addition, in case you do not write a great immediate, ask the software to put in writing you a greater immediate. High tip. What I did discover with Gemini, to be sincere, that it struggles slightly bit extra with presenting data in such a transparent approach. A few of the different instruments are significantly better at placing it into tables, changing it into PDFs. On the time of recording, Gemini did not need to make me a PDF. It mentioned, “I am a textual content or a copy-based software”. And I used to be like, “Oh, okay”. I believed I might simply ask an AI to do me something and it ought to do my bidding. However apparently that is —
Helen Tupper: Push again.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, it did push again. However really, as soon as I then requested it to current the knowledge another way, so I believed reasonably than simply hand over, clearly it did not need to do this for my first model, I mentioned, “Okay, can I’ve it in bullet factors as a substitute?” After which it did work. And I preferred the thought. It mentioned, “Concepts, present rating 6, goal 7”. So, it had understood me. After which it gave me three bullet factors, say, for concepts. So, considered one of them was about scheduling considering time, like, “Add considering time into your week”. One in every of them was about getting ready one new concept or thought-provoking query to share in a workforce assembly. So, no less than it was a particular context. After which, it additionally gave me solutions about, what a few small pilot venture or experiment with testing a brand new course of or software that I have been fascinated with.
So, I felt prefer it was useful prompts as a result of I feel for values, one of many issues that may really feel exhausting is the ‘so what now’. So, scales are useful as a result of they provide us a place to begin, so like the place are you out of 10 with these values? Even in case you’re not 100% positive they’re your values, you’ll be able to nonetheless give them a rating out of 10. After which simply nudging up on that scale, you will have your individual concepts, however really AI might both construct on the concepts that you have, or it might provide you with some concepts to get you began.
Helen Tupper: I feel it is simply, you’ve got received nothing to lose by attempting these out. I feel you will simply change into a bit extra self-aware, you will establish some actions. That is actually what the dash’s all about.
Sarah Ellis: Do you need to do the workforce?
Helen Tupper: You may additionally need to have some enjoyable.
Sarah Ellis: You are so enthusiastic about this.
Helen Tupper: So, we have been chatting, we have been like, “How can we get folks…” and we have now, to be truthful, we have now accomplished an entire podcast on speaking about values in groups. So, we have been like, a small, fast factor that folks might do. So, that is our suggestion.
Sarah Ellis: We approached this fairly otherwise, I feel it is truthful to say, is not it?
Helen Tupper: Yeah. So, you’re taking considered one of your values, one that you simply actually recognise, and take into consideration a tune that represents that worth. You may create your individual Spotify playlist as a workforce and you may play, like, ten seconds of the tune, after which you’ll be able to focus on what your worth was, possibly even get folks to guess, “That is my tune, what do you suppose my worth is?” You may have lots of enjoyable with it.
Sarah Ellis: That will work higher with the way you method this than how I method this. So, do you need to give the instance?
Helen Tupper: We have been having practising, we have been chatting final evening, we have been practising.
Sarah Ellis: So, you went first, and what did you give you?
Helen Tupper: Oh, I am unable to keep in mind now, however I feel considered one of mine’s power and I might be like —
Sarah Ellis: No, you had, “Freedom”. You began singing George Michael to me at like 10:30 at evening, and I used to be like, “Oh, that is the purpose the place I’m going, ‘Bye'”. You went fairly literal.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, like a values tune.
Sarah Ellis: Since you had, like, objective.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, properly that was what I mentioned for you.
Sarah Ellis: You mentioned achievement.
Helen Tupper: “At all times imagine in your self“.
Sarah Ellis: I nonetheless cannot imagine you are singing on the podcast. However considered one of my values is concepts. And I felt like Kate Bush was an actual pioneer of concepts and being inventive.
Helen Tupper: I imply, go as deep as Sarah or go as shallow as me, however you will have lots of enjoyable within the course of.
Sarah Ellis: So, yeah, I did not, I did not go literal, I went fairly conceptual, which I feel is kind of acceptable.
Helen Tupper: I feel it is normal.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, however I feel music creates connection, it’s lots of enjoyable. We’ve really examined variations of this with teams earlier than, and I feel it simply will get everybody speaking about themselves in a approach that’s low-key, playful, and the place typically I feel values can really feel fairly critical, and in addition a bit off-putting for some folks, however I feel all people might choose a tune that tells you one thing about what’s essential to them. And that labored for us. You may both begin singing, like Helen, or you’ll be able to simply get Spotify to do the give you the results you want.
Helen Tupper: Be happy to provide us some ‘what labored properly, even higher if’ suggestions on my singing. No, do not!
Sarah Ellis: So, that is the tip of immediately’s Abilities Dash on values. Tomorrow, we can be again speaking about confidence and people gremlins, beliefs that maintain you again and how one can cage them.
Helen Tupper: Completely satisfied sprinting, everybody!
