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Exploring Values from The Thiagi Group (Print-N-Play)

10/18/2018

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A good friend of mine (thanks JS!) sent me a link to an activity called Exploring Values from The Thiagi Group (check out their FREE GameBlog HERE). To work this activity it calls for 50 "or more" value cards. There is a PDF list of values provided by The Thiagi Group, which is a great resource. I jumped right in and made a set of cards using the list so I could try this one out. I thought you might like to join me. Below you'll find my set of 76 print-n-play cards (blank cards are included as well so you can add to the set) 
The purpose of Exploring Values is "to explore the relative importance of different values in an organization." The activity is set up for a group to compare two values and decide which one is more important. Even though both are important, "thinking about these values, discussing them, and placing them in order of importance makes them more specific" for the group.  
As with all Thiagi Group activities, there are clear presentation (Flow) details and useful Debriefing questions and Learning Points. HEREs the LINK again for all the details. 
And There's More....
If you have been following the FUN, you know I like to get a lot of "milage" out of my team building tools - doing more with less. Here are a few other ideas for using the value cards: 

What's Important - Scatter the cards out face up on some tables or the floor. Ask everyone to find a value (card) that is important to them right now. It is perfectly okay to share a value (card) with another person in the group. If the group is manageable (smaller), go around and find out from each person why this value is important to them. Keep these particular cards with you during your program. Let them help you spark thoughts and learnings before, during and/or after team building activities (i.e., cards can be processing prompts).


Values Tool Box - Have the group decide, by consensus, five values they want to focus on during your program. Use them before, during and/or after activities as check-in prompts for discussion. Maybe the values (cards) need to change over the course of your program - allow for swaps or additions. 

What's Missing - If your group is "stuck", pick five of the values from the set and ask the group what value, of the five, might get them un-stuck at that particular time. Maybe you pick five value cards at random (let the Universe decide, so to speak), or you might choose five value cards that you believe are particularly relevant to your observations of the group. For example, your group might need one of these five: 
  • Decisiveness
  • Energy
  • Helpful
  • Persistence
  • Transparency

Sometimes all the group needs is a little nudge to get un-stuck. 

Random Considerations - Another way to explore values is to simply pick a card at random and have a discussion about its meaning to the diverse population of your group. I did something like this (with another list of values) with residential participants that I worked with over a longer period of time. You might also find it important to pick a card "on purpose" because you want to talk about a value that might have surfaced during a team building activity. 
Here are the Value Cards
exploringvalues_thiagi_cavertfdb18.pdf
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Do you have an activity that could work with these value cards? Share in the Comment below. Thanks. 

All the best, 

Chris Cavert, Ed.D. 
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