After reading “How to link personal values with team values”, I was reminded of the article we read last week, “How to Live With Purpose, Identify Your Values and Improve Your Leadership”. These two articles complement each by highlighting the importance of identifying both personally and in the work space. Last week’s article focused on how to discover your values and put them into action to become a better leader. This week’s article built on that idea by emphasizing how aligning your identified values with your actions can serve as a guiding principle. Both articles stress that leading with values at the forefront is essential because it motivates employees and gives greater meaning to their work. This creates a positive and engaging company culture.

Another article that came to mind was “Top 10 Qualities that Make a Great Leader”, which highlighted communication, creativity, and honesty as key leadership traits. Similarly, this week’s article emphasized values such as communication, integrity, and creativity showing how these qualities consistently appear as core leadership values. Comparing just these two pieces demonstrates how much employees and people in general value certain traits in their leaders.

These articles also differ in their approach. This week’s article provides examples of large companies, such as Nordstrom and AT&T, engaging employees in discussions about values to better integrate them within teams and across the organization. It goes further by offering a step by step guide on how to conduct a values workshop, along with insights into the outcomes of these workshops. By presenting real world examples , the article highlights how companies can actively foster a culture that reflects their core values, rather than defining them in theory.

Overall, these three articles provide a comprehensive view of the role values play in effective leadership. Values are not just ideas, they are essential guiding principles that shape leadership, influence workplace behavior and create a meaningful environment for both leaders and their teams.

Loehr, Anne. “How to Live with Purpose, Identify Your Values and Improve Your Leadership.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 7 Dec. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-live-with-purpose_b_5187572.

Myers, Ted. “Forbes – Top 10 Qualities That Make a Great Leader.” LinkedIn, 9 Mar. 2018, www.linkedin.com/pulse/forbes-top-10-qualities-make-great-leader-tedson-myers-cpa-mba/.

Jaffe, Dennis T., and Cynthia D. Scott. “How to Link Personal Values with Team Values.” Training & Development, vol. 52, no. 3, Mar. 1998, pp. 24–30