Process Driver 3 - Values
Reflecting
What do we know already?
Questions to ask
Working as individuals, bring to mind the most significant instance you have had personally within the last year that involved a group activity, planning activity, partnership process, work relationship or event or action group.
Bring it vividly to mind and describe it (ie type of event, time, date, participants):
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What happened?
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How did you react?
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How did other people react to the situation?
Record your responses to these questions.
You may find the Reflecting on Experience Tool [PDF | Word] is useful here.
Interpreting
Why is it important to us?
Questions to ask
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What group and individual values do you think these actions communicated?
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What meaning do you think others may have taken from this? That is, not meaning taken from the values we believe we have but meaning taken from the values portrayed by our actions. Be precise in the language in which you report this.
Record your response to these questions.
Deciding
What will we do?
Questions to ask
You might find the Action Planning Tool [PDF | Word] helpful.
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Tell the group about the things you have written down or thought about.
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Discuss the way actions reflect values.
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What values will guide the group? Should they be written down?
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How will the group use these values to guide their work?
Record your group values.
Acting
Let's do it!
Questions to ask
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Which actions would support the group's values and which will not? How do we accommodate other people's values?
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What do we do that will help us tell others about what we are doing with our value set?
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How and when will we review our progress according to our values?
Record your response to these questions.
Evaluating
How did it go?
Questions to ask
You may find the Reflecting on Experience Tool [PDF | Word] is useful here.
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Did we meet our personal value set when we developed the group value set?
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How did the group work under the set of values decided on? What happened that leads us to think so?
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Do we need to change our set of group values now?
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How will we change the process from here on?
Record your response to these questions.





