Do you know your personal and professionalcore values?
If you know them , are they written down?
Your professional and personal core values should be aligned.
As a coach and mentor, I work with clients who are dissatisfied with their personal and professional lives. In our first coaching session they answer a series of questions that help to clarify their personal and professional core values.
If their personal and professional core values are not aligned making changes will not produce the desired results.
The idea for doing this blog post came from a visit to a Whole Foods Market.
My friend and I visited the newly opened Whole Foods Market in our neighborhood. They had a beautiful area, away from the main store, for social interactions. The ambience was perfect for chit chatting and people watching.
We ordered pizza and sat down to enjoy each other’s company. After a few minutes, my attention was drawn to the writing on a table – I looked closely, there were seven tables, and each one had a core value statement that was the foundation of The Whole Foods Market organization.
I was intrigued and wrote them down.
I now had an idea for a blog post, comparing Whole Foods Market’s core values and my personal/professional core values.
Your core values determine the lifestyle you’re going to choose. They impact every aspect of your daily life … what you think, say and do.
Some values are fleeting but your core values, more often than not, stay with you for a life time. Living a life that’s not in accordance with your core values can create discord and unhappiness.
Here are 7 of my personal and professional core values as they relate to Whole Foods Market business core values:
Value 1
Whole Foods: Promoting health of our stake holders through healthy eating and education.
Mine: I Show love and appreciation for my being by eating healthy foods, exercising, hydrating my body, taking time to relax and connect with my mind, body and spirit.
My personal and professional development is an on going process
Value 2
Whole Foods: Creating ongoing win-win partnerships with our suppliers.
Mine: I Accept and love my children, other family members, and friends, for who they are today instead of who they’ll become.
Whole Foods: Caring about our communities and our environment.
Mine: The universe is my source and I’m connected, in one way or another, to all of its inhabitants. I look for opportunities to contribute to my local and global community.
I’m an example to my children and grandchildren of an eco-friendly life style.
Whole Foods: Selling the highest quality natural and organic products available.
Mine: My thoughts, words, actions, and deeds promote peace, happiness and harmony. I encourage my children and anyone who will listen to do the same.
I guide my clients to be authentic and to confidently take action to receive their goals, and to remain optimistic, no matter what.
Whole Foods: Creating wealth through profits and growth.
Mine: I inspire my children, family, friends and clients to let go of limiting beliefs about money. I help my clients master their mindset for success and I’m rewarded with financially.
Value 6
Whole Foods: Support team members’ excellence and happiness
Mine: I support my children and grand children in all they want to achieve. I influence my clients to focus on their strengths and master them, and to embrace their perceived weaknesses.
Value 7
Whole Foods: Satisfying and delighting our customers.
Mine: Spending quality time with my family and friends is top priority. Professionally, my focused intention is to help my clients achieve their highest potential.
It’s a wrap
What do you think of Whole Foods Market’s Core Values? Are you living your life in accordance with your core values? Please share in the comment section below.
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I love the topic about core values. My company, TIGERS Success Series, is based on six of them — trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. They form the acronym – TIGERS.
These six core values emerged from my question, “What is necessary to build an ethical, quality focused, productive, cooperative and successful group of people?” The values emerged from studying group behavior in education, psychology and business. I live my life by them. And when I did some work for Whole Foods, it was a real joy because the company does bring their values alive through the behaviors of people who work there.
Values are anchored by behavior. This is the difference between words on a wall and those that are demonstrated daily in how people treat one another. Values give life to the work environment or to your relationships. I think if people in love would talk more about their values and realize that they are non negotiable, perhaps we would see more successful marriages.
Your acronym leaves no doubt what your business is all about. Dianne you’ve built an amazing business that brings tremendous value to the work place.
Businesses need your service. Kudos!!
Focusing on core values is so important, Adalia. What a great topic to blog about (especially talking about Whole Foods – which I love!). So many people are just not in touch with their core values…or else they’ve been lost along the way. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Hello Kate,
When your living is not aligned with your core values success and happiness can be elusive.
Although I consider myself fortunate to be living my core values both professionally and personally, I want to take some more time to reflect on ones that I can publish as you have done. You have provided a great example and I’ll check back and update when I’m done.
Thanks!
Lynn
Hello Lynn, our core values defines who we are and what we believe.