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1. values exercise

   Hi Mike

   Your question puts me in mind of the old exercise of 6 people on a nosediving plane and only 5 paracutes, who would get the paracutes and why?  You tailor the exercise by selecting the famous six people though a spectrum to suit your purpose, for example in leadership one end of the spectrum may be Nelson Mandella or Churchill.  The groups discuss who gets the paracutes and why for about 10 = 15 minutes and then present their decisions to the whole group, this can then lead to a full discussion. 

    

   A variation of this is 6 professions for example Nurse; Firefighter, Banker etc; list in priority order who deserves pay increases, why and at what % when there is only a certain pot of money. 

    

   Hope this helps

    

   Angela

   O D Innovations

2. repertory grid

   I use a repertory grid most of the time to do this,  it is fairly easy to do at the basic level  if you have the confidence, and you can do statistical analysis at higher levels if you want.  Have a look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repertory_Grid

   and if you think it fits the bill contact me through my site http://www.everlearn.co.uk and i’ll send you my notes for running it

   Cheers

   James

3. Core Qualities

   Here are a couple of web site addresses which provide an insight into undertaking  a Core Qualities analysis. It’s an interesting exercise and can if done properly unearth some interesting insights.

   http://www.jessemeijers.com/identifying-core-qualities-pitfalls-challenges-allergies-daniel-ofman/

   http://patrickschriel.com/2010/03/11/use-core-qualities-to-discover-your-challenges-in-life/

   And an alternate system that might also be useful to look at, though I have never used it so can’t vouch for it, Personal Values Exercise:

   http://www.sustainable-employee-motivation.com/personal-values.html

    

4. Values Exercise Resource

   Mike ~ You may want to join up with the ASTD National group on LinkedIn and seek out one of the members, a woman called Lauren LaPorte.  She was gracious enough to share with me an exercise on personal values that she had developed and it may work beautifully for the purpose you describe.  (I’m sure you’ll understand that because it’s copyrighted material, I’m not comfortable forwarding it on or posting it here.)

5. Values Exercise

   Thank you all for your suggestions which are much appreciated.

   I am currently developing an idea based around newspapers. The group will be given a selection of the days papers and invited to chose a story and discuss it (total time 30 mins). The debate about which story and the content of the discussion should, i hope expose some personal values which I hope will be apparent to the individual and/or others.

   We will then review this inviting sharing of feedback about what people noticed in themselves and others.

   Thanks again and any other wisom gladly received.

   Mike.