Identity Values

— first-person, self-declared guiding ideals — your compass

Identity Values are the bedrock principles upon which your endeavor is built, personally and professionally.  These are self-declared guiding ideals that are applied quietly and consistently on a daily basis directing your actions and decisions.  If an engagement or opportunity is not aligned with these values, you will go in a different direction. You decide.

What values define you?  What are your core drivers?  What professional and personal values do you hold dear?  What principles compel you alter your course to stay in alignment?  What is your code of conduct?  Who do you say you are?  What values do you walk?

Personality Characteristics

— NOT first-person: how others might to describe you, ideally.

Personality Characteristics are how you are understood.  This is how someone might describe you to others in attempting to convey a snap-shot sense of who you are, what you are like. We can aspire to be described by certain characteristics, but we don’t generally go around referring to ourselves by these attributes.  These are often aspirational intentions: we would hope to be described as authentic, reliable, funny, or charming.  We don’t go around saying “I’m so charming and authentic!” — we walk through the world behaving in such a way that people tend to say, “My friend is authentic.”

How do you aspire to be known and described?  What would you hope people say when they describe you?  How are people describing you now?