Values simply represent the beliefs and ideals that mean the most to us or which are very important to us. There are many kinds of values, such as personal and career values. Career values play a major role in helping people to make better choices regarding their careers. It also helps you to determine what motivates you.
Some examples of service, creativity, honesty, integrity, time consciousness, respect for others, self respect, kindness, dependability, reliability, family, health, money etc
Your career values represent the beliefs you have about what is important in your work, and what makes it meaningful to you; one of the surefire ways of increasing career satisfaction is aligning our personal values to our career values; such work will be more meaningful as we will be more likely to show commitment and seek continuous improvement.
Career values refer to our expectations and needs in relation to our work which may directly or indirectly enhance our life in general. Overall, the achievement of these values gives a sense of accomplishment.
Career values could relate to something as specific as the work environment ( autonomy, diversity, casual work environment, team work, collaboration, creativity, fun, challenge, and working conditions such as high income, employment benefits, travel, power, prestige, work/life balance, recognition, supportive work environment etc
Examples of more types of values:
- Adventure
- Avoiding Stress
- Building Things
- Camaraderie
- Casual Work Environment
- Challenge
- Changing the World
- Collaborating with Others
- Competition
- Creating New Thing
- Fun
- Helping Others
- High Income
- High Level of Interaction with People
- Income Based on Productivity
- Influencing Others
- Intellectually Demanding Work
- Job Security
- Location
- Moral/Spiritual Fulfillment
- Opportunity to Lead
- Opportunity to Learn New Things
- Risk Taking
- Routine Work
- Sharing Ideas
- Solving Problems
- Structure
- Team spirit
- Time Freedom
Below are some key inspirational values to live by:
ACHIEVEMENT AMBITION APPRECIATION BELIEVE BELIEVE IN YOURSELF CARING CHARACTER CHARITY CIVILITY CLASS AND GRACE COMMITMENT COMMON GROUND COMPASSION COMPLIMENTS COMPROMISE CONFIDENCE COURAGE COURTESY DEDICATION DETERMINATION DEVOTION DO YOUR PART DRIVE EDUCATION ENCOURAGEMENT EQUALITY EXCELLENCE FITNESS FORESIGHT FORGIVENESS FRIENDSHIP GENEROSITY GIVING BACK GOOD MANNERS GRATITUDE GREAT MUSIC HARD WORK HELPING OTHERS HONESTY HONOR HOPE HUMILITY INCLUDING OTHERS INGENUITY INNOVATION INSPIRATION INTEGRITY JUSTICE KINDNESS LAUGHTER LEADERSHIP LEARNING LISTENING LITERACY LIVE LIFE LIVE YOUR DREAMS LOVE LOYALTY MAKING A DIFFERENCE MENTORING MOTIVATION OPPORTUNITY OPTIMISM OVERCOMING PASSION PATIENCE PEACE PERSEVERANCE PERSISTENCE PRACTICE PREPARATION PURPOSE REACHING OUT RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY RIGHT CHOICES RISING ABOVE SACRIFICE SHARING SMILE SOUL SPORTSMANSHIP SPREAD YOUR WINGS STEWARDSHIP STRENGTH TEACHING BY EXAMPLE TEAM WORK TRUE BEAUTY TRUST UNITY VISION VOLUNTEERING http://www.values.com/inspirational-sayings-billboards/1-Achievement
