Importance Of Core Values

Mateusz Skibicki
Management Skills Individual Assignment: Values
Professor Hellman
10/4/2017

Core values are principles that can help people know the difference between right and wrong, and help an individual live a better life. These principles define and distinguish a human, and they can be important and influencing one’s decisions in life. Although all of the values on the list are very important, there are a few that are more important to me in that they influenced key decisions in my life, and my life as a whole. The first value that is extremely important to me is “Family”. I wanted to start off with this one because this is definitely the most important one. Family is what motivates me to do my best everyday. From my supportive parents

With family I was able to learn numerous of the other core values which in return have made me a much better and more successful person than I would be without a loving and supportive family. They steer me away from wrong, and make sure everything I do has a positive outcome. Another very important core value to me is “Responsibility.” Although I did follow this core value, my family made sure that I was always responsible. With responsibility, I was able to get so much more accomplished. When I was younger, I was not as responsible as I am today. I started Boy Scouts as a young kid, and I wasn’t really responsible and I just treated it as an activity. I did not bother to work for the higher ranks nor follow what I was supposed to do. However, as I matured, this core value of responsibility began to show. It was evident what I had to do and I made sure that I completed everything without anyone reminding me or telling me to do something. With this core value, I eventually was able to earn the rank of Eagle Scout which has made a tremendous impact on my life. Responsibility also applied to my life in school. I made sure to be responsible and always make sure to write down and do the homework, even if it

They helped me speak up in challenging situations, but sometimes there were cases in which I did not speak up. In an instance where I did speak up, there was an extremely positive outcome from it. In my AV tech job at my high school, we as a team used school equipment to get our work done. However, this school equipment was severely outdated and sometimes it was a trouble to get even the slightest bit of work done. There was talk since I was a sophomore that we should replace this equipment, but no one stepped up to the school board to ask for newer equipment. When I became a senior and I received the position of head of AV tech, I realized that this needed to change. I went to the schoolboard and requested at least a part of the equipment to be replaced, especially the laptop and a few microphones. The board accepted this proposal and soon after we received the new equipment and work became much easier. The reason I spoke up was because there were situational and group factors present. We as a group were not able to be efficient in situations where there were events going on. We were always fearful of something not working during the actual event and us ruining it. However, this was changed and with this outcome, me and the entire team of AV tech were extremely grateful and relieved. Although I did speak up here and it ended up in a positive outcome, there were