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Mapping Values in an Trainers’ Team
Mapping Values in an Trainers’ Team
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Every trainer has a backpack made of different values, according to different worldviews, priorities, experiences… The differences in core values can lead to conflicts and misunderstandings during the training. To prevent these from happening and to help guide conflicts if they arise, we propose these activity to reflect on our own values and how they are related to those of other team members.
The following exercise is a suggested basis for discussion in the team.
Step 1. Self reflection
- Select 5 values that feel most important for you as a trainer
- Rank them from 1 (most important) to 5
Building from the ETS competence development, we suggest this list of values. Feel free to make changes, add or remove from this list according to your needs and context.
- Trust in participants and their potential
- Commitment to inclusion and equality
- Commitment to solidarity and human rights
- Respect for diversity
- Openness to different identities, cultures and worldviews
- Empathy towards others
- Genuine care for participants’ well-being
- Openness to ambiguity and uncertainty
- Openness to change
- Learning as a lifelong, mutual and transformative process
- Curiosity and openness to new ideas and perspectives
- Willingness to reflect on one’s own actions, values and assumptions
- Self-awareness of one’s strengths, limits and impact on others
- Acceptance of mistakes as part of learning
- Openness to feedback and continuous self-improvement
- Courage to step outside the comfort zone and take initiative
- Ethical responsibility and integrity in actions and decisions
- Critical thinking
- Reflection on power, privilege and social justice
- Courage to stand up against injustice, discrimination and unfairness
- Holistic understanding of participants and their realities
- Commitment to creating safe learning environments
- Commitment to creating supportive learning environments
- Openness to collaboration and learning from others
- Respectful and honest communication
- Responsibility for one’s role and contribution within a team
- Responsibility for social impact
- Responsibility for community impact
- Responsibility for environmental impact
- Awareness of oneself as a role model
Step 2. Compare
Share your 5 values with your team
- What do you understand by each value? Give an example of when you put each value into practice
- Why did you put these values in this order?
Step 3. Match
- What are your complementarities and differences?
- How do you think you can work together as a team with these differences?
Extra: to facilitate the group discussion, you can make a set of cards with all the values you want to include and display them. Then each team member picks 5 different cards.
In the case you’d like to have a deeper discussion within your team, another exercise you can use is the ‘Diamond’(see inspiring resources). With this exercise, you’ll rank 9 different values and then compare the values at the two ends of each team members’s diamond.
Training of trainers course participants created this educational activity and resources to support trainers teamwork competence development. The Awero team organised the course.
This activity supports trainers’ competence development in the Cooperating successfully in teams area. Activity content and badge-issuing criteria aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for trainers working internationally. In particular:
- Contributing actively to team tasks
- Being willing to take on responsibility
- Encouraging and involving other team members
- Learning with and from others
- Being aware of the team processes and how they affect the team’s effectiveness
- Managing disagreements constructively
Resources
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Badge earner has identified and prioritised their core values as a trainer using the ranking method and reflected on how these values influence their practice and teamwork.
To get this badge, trainer:
- Selected and prioritised key personal values from the provided list
- Reflected on their values and discussed them within a team of trainers
Activity content and badge issuing criteria aligned with value-based youth work and non-formal education practices.
Learning duration: 1.5 hours
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Submit the following:
- 5 selected values that are most important for you as a trainer
- A short reflection (5–7 sentences) based on discussion with your team of trainers.
Skills
ETS-TR
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ETS-TR
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Awero
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