The Owners Manual for Values at Work

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Paradigm Personality Labs

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491_9780578175478

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In the 1970s, an educational movement called Values Clarification (VC) invigorated school curricula across the United States and elsewhere. As a school consultant, the author of The Owner’s Manual for Values at Work was immersed in the VC literature and engaged in the practice of training teachers to use the seven-step VC model. He also adapted VC activities for use with adults and found them to be a valuable tool for adult development as well as child development. Who doesn’t benefit from periodic scrutiny of how one expresses one’s values?In the 1990s, the author was no longer training teachers and schoolchildren but was working with adults. By 2010, he had written over a dozen books, including four major personality test professional manuals and an “Owner’s Manual” series including The Owner’s Manual for the Brain (4th ed.), The Owner’s Manual for Personality at Work (2nd ed.), The Owner’s Manual for Personality from 12 to 22, and The Owner’s Manual for Happiness. Something was missing, however: He longed for a version of the VC literature that was both contemporary and focused on the world of work and adults. Nothing was available—the only current literature on values was pure theory and of no help to the typical human development professional.Realizing that if it were to be it would be up to him, Dr. Pierce J. Howard began the development of three legs to support a VC stool: 1) a comprehensive assessment of personal values for use in the workplace, 2) another in the series of Owner’s Manuals that would focus on the exploration and implementation of values in the workplace, and 3) a “toolkit” of scripts and activities that adult development professionals could use in coaching, consulting, and training.The assessment—The Values Profile™--was completed and launched in 2013. This book represents the second leg of the VC stool—a treatment of the history, theor

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