It’s no wonder that during a job interview, some recruiters ask questions to check if the candidate’s values are aligned with the company’s own values.
The objective is to verify if they complement each other, which is known today by the term Culture Add, thus increasing the chances of a win-win relationship between employer and employee.
Would you be able to say out loud right now to yourself, without thinking too much,what your 5 core personal values are?
Tough, right? Because it requires something overlooked by many: self-awareness.
Self-awareness is learning more about ourselves.
To start this process, one of the first exercises I usually do with my clients is the identification of their personal values, as they are the subjective principles that drive our lives.
Once our personal values are clear to ourselves, it becomes easier to identify sources of unsatisfaction in life, such as at work.
When someone does not clearly know their own values, that is, their guides in life, the causes of certain conflicts are often mistakenly addressed to where they see their direct reflections in other areas of their lives.
In addition, Neuroscience research shows that our decisions are made 11 seconds earlier than we believe we have made them consciously. Values are emotional drivers that direct our actions unconsciously, so identifying and clarifying your values is a great way to better understand your decisions, and make them more assertive.
However, to reach this level, the previous step is to develop your Emotional Intelligence, which is the ability to identify, recognize and manage not only your own emotions, but also those of others, in order to be able to build better human relationships.
Although emotions happen from inside out, it is the external environment that brings the stimuli, interfaced by the brain, which receives, processes and sends the response in the form of commands that trigger behaviors.
Naturally, we don’t have control over the environment, so it’s up to us to manage the reactions we can have, stimulated by it.:
That is why it is important, whenever possible, to ‘enrich’ the environment we are in, to receive the most positive stimuli possible, so that we have more equally positive experiences. When this is not possible, we can experience the opposite, to what we call ‘toxic’, and this can also apply to the work environment.
One more reason to invest in self-awareness, because if you feel uncomfortable at work, but you don’t know exactly why, you probably won’t be able to improve your professional life either, and this will also impact your personal life.
However, when you know clearly what your strengths and weaknesses are, and you begin to understand what are the stimuli in the environment that are capable of altering your behavior, you become able to monitor yourself, and start to use both internal and external factors. outsiders, on their own behalf.
Yes, self-awareness is an act of courage!
It may seem challenging at first, but don’t be discouraged. As you take small steps, committed to increasing your self-awareness, the easier it gets. You will see that self-awareness has much more to do with admitting self-accountability than assuming that you have nothing more to learn (especially when it comes to yourself).
If you still feel like you can go the extra mile and achieve the results you crave, but still have doubts about how exactly, you can schedule an initial call with me, totally free of charge, just click on this link.
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About me: I’m a High-Performance Coach who uses a Neuroscience-based method to support you in Achieve More with Mental Well-Being.
