1. Recognizing Your Values

2. Instrumental Values
Something that is important for acquiring something else, such as money.

3. Intrinsic Values
Something that is important in and itself

4. Moral Values
Values that help you judge right and wrong

5. Values
The thoughts, ideas, and actions that are important to you and which you use to gauge or evaluate the people and things in your life.

6. Work Related Values
Values that define how you like to work and the results that you produce.

7. Examples of Work Values
Creativity
Physical activity
Independence
Good salary
Job security
Work environment
Leadership opportunities
Prestige
Challenge
Work Safety
Variety
Working with people
Thinking
Others????

8. Activity#1
Your values are not constant, they have and they will continue to change.
Give an example of how a value you once had has changed.
What are some factors that might that might cause you to change your values in the future.

9. Activity#2
Based on your values, prioritize the work values by ranking them from the most to least important for you.
What are two examples of careers/jobs that match the priority list you arrived at above.

10. Flexible Standards
Standards that can be adapted to different situations

11. Standards
Guidelines for whether or not something meets expectations

12. Tolerant
Willing to consider the opinions of others

13. Ethics
A set of beliefs of what is right and what is wrong

14. Virtues
Positive character traits

15. Activity#3 How are values and standards related?
Give 3 examples of standards from each of the following
School
Parents
You own
Give an example where a value and standards of your school conflicts with your own; your parents and your own. Suggest compromises to resolve each of these conflicts.