Values

Summary

Personal/professional life

Accountability

Accountability is about ownership and accepting the responsibility or a task from start to the outcome and anything happening in between. Therefore, it can be used as a measure of the ability to be answerable for personal actions. Ethics and governance are termed as answerability, liability, blameworthiness, and expectation of account-giving. Being accountable means that an individual is ready to experience the consequences of their actions or performance without blaming others. When responsibilities are bestowed upon you, or you decide on something, you are the one to be liable for the results of the decision (Ye et al., 2020).

Both personal and professional life.

Caring

Caring is connecting with others, responding with compassion to the needs of others, and respecting human dignity. As a caring person, you have to practice looking to those unable to care for themselves due to sickness, illness, and needs. The important aspects of caring are actively listening, providing support, and being emotionally present for others. Caring is morally objectionable and happens when a person is preoccupied with the concrete interests of fellow human beings and valuing their needs. Caring also involves a personal and genuine concern for others in society. Being able to be with someone, listen to them and give comfort at devastating moments is a way of caring.

Both professional and personal life

competence

Competence means you can excellently do something. When a job or task is assigned to someone competent, they deliver it effectively.

Competence involves all the skills, related knowledge, attributes, and abilities that form a person’s job. The skills and knowledge are qualities leading to excellent job performance (Sagiv et al., 2017). Organizations and individuals use competence to focus on individual behavior on things that matter and help drive success.

Professional life

Creativity

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that add value to human existence. Creativity requires passion, dedication, knowledge, and curiosity to achieve the desired goal and solve problems. Creativity solves problems through the generation of ideas and concepts that are useful in enhancing a difference. Creativity means the ability of the brain to create new ideas, concepts, and conclusions, willingness to invent something, troubleshoot originally, and the desire to change the environment we live innovatively.

Both personal and professional life.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is letting go of bitterness and accommodating those who have wronged you. It leads to feelings of empathy, understanding, and compassion for those who hurt us. Forgiveness is a conscious and deliberate decision to release feelings of revenge towards another person. In addition, it is termed as an internal process of letting go of resentment and the need for vengeance and retribution towards others who have wronged you. However, forgiveness can be triggered by various factors such as changes in cognition, victim’s behavior, offender’s behavior, emotional experience, spiritual experience, and willful decision (Ye et al., 2020). Forgiveness allows people to move forward from the negative effects of anger despite acknowledging the wrong and unfair happenings.

Personal life

Integrity

Integrity is a quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Integrity is showing consistency and uncompromising adherence to ethical principles, morals, and values. An individual with integrity acts and serves with honor, honesty, and truthfulness all the time regardless of whether they are under watch or not. Having integrity requires individuals to live their lives according to their morals and values without violating them in any situation. Integrity means being incorruptible and having unimpaired condition and soundness (Sagiv et al., 2017). Integrity extends to professional areas such as decision making, serving others, and interacting with others while remaining truthful to yourself.

Both personal and professional life.

Leadership

Leadership is a social power that influences others by motivation through maximizing their abilities to achieve specific goals. Leadership is accompanied by unique qualities that a leader must have to influence the achievement of goals. A  good leader must possess these qualities that include communication. It is one of the qualities that that is vital and encompasses constantly engaging the followers by offering guidance and feedback and connecting with people. Leaders must have the vision to give focus and direction and show empathy, which helps build trust and confidence in the team (Ye et al., 2020). A leader must show gratitude, which helps build a positive interaction and be accountable for their actions.   

Both personal and professional life.

Respect

Respect is the act of accepting others for who they are and recognizing they have a different opinion that differs from yours. Respect is a significant value that builds trust, safety, and healthy relationship. It remains a phenomenal value that promotes positive culture among people and increases production in a team. Mutual respect between people makes them feel valued for their unique qualities, abilities, and achievement, motivating them to engage peacefully and productively. Being respected by other people is crucial because it creates a safe environment to pinpoint your ideas and express yourself (Sagiv et al., 2017).  Therefore, respect is a vital value in society and helps maintain peace and harmony among members of any organization.

Personal life

Risk-taking

Risk-taking is the willingness to perform things that have repercussions to achieve specific goals and objectives. As a risk-taker, a person commits resources to a risk project that can fail to provide returns but hope they will win in the end. Taking risks comes with a set of benefits because you commit yourself to uncertain places. Despite the uncertainty of the situation, it helps a person create opportunities to achieve the specific goals they initially set out. These risk-taking habits can help unlock doors you had no idea existed and benefit big from such opportunities (Ye et al., 2020).  

Both personal and professional life

Teamwork

Teamwork is a vital value that means people with different skills cooperate to offer constructive exercise by putting aside any differences to work on a common goal.  In teamwork, every person selflessly gives their best and sets their eyes on the ultimate goal. Teamwork is a time management tool that allows people to utilize scarce resources defectively and maximize their output. Teamwork creates room for discussion and opinions, collaboration, critical thinking that solve problems that affect individuals.  A good team is well organized, supports one another has a proper communication channel that is guided by good leadership to ensure they offer support to each other (Sagiv et al., 2017).  

Both personal and professional life