After reading “How to link personal values with team values,” I immediately began thinking about my SLC 250 (Critical and Creative Decision Making Models) course, in which I am enrolled in. We recently completed an activity in which we sorted our personal values in order of priority and importance, and how we can utilize those respective values in decision-making. I found it both interesting and helpful that one of the article’s key points was to “accept no substitute,” as it helps all members of the team clearly define and abide by the team’s core values.

I found this article to have synonymous meaning as “How to Live with Purpose, Identify Your Values and Improve Your Leadership” by Anne Loehr from Module 1. I really liked the exercise from Loehr in which she asked the reader to recall a moment that everything felt “aligned” and what you truly valued from that moment. I believe that effective value-based leadership begins with the ability to define your own values, and then applying those respective values to the rest of your team. I believe that these two articles do a great job of just that.

Finally, this text reminded me of value-based leadership in sports, specifically my favorite team, the New York Yankees, and their team captain, Aaron Judge. Judge consistently abides by his “team-first” values, making him an extremely well-respected leader in not just the organization, but the sport as a whole. This is a great example of defining personal values and a real-world application of them, as well as how it can lead to personal success both in and outside of his respective industry.

Scott, Cynthia, and Dennis Jaffe. “How to Link Personal Values with Team Values.” SlideShare, Slideshare, www.slideshare.net/cynthiascott/how-tolinkvalues-article. Accessed 09 Sept. 2025.