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Center for Applied Cognitive Studies The Owner by Pierce J Howard
In the 1970s an educational movement called Values Clarification (VC) invigorated school curricula across the United States and elsewhere. As a school consultant the author of The Owners Manual for Values at Work was immersed in the VC literature and engaged in the practice of training teachers to use the sevenstep VC model. He also adapted VC activities for use with adults and found them to be a valuable tool for adult development as well as child development. Who doesnt benefit from periodic scrutiny of how one expresses ones values?In the 1990s the author was no longer training teachers and schoolchildren but was working with adults. By 2010 he had written over a dozen books including four major personality test professional manuals and an Owners Manual series including The Owners Manual for the Brain (4th ed.) The Owners Manual for Personality at Work (2nd ed.) The Owners Manual for Personality from 12 to 22 and The Owners Manual for Happiness. Something was missing however: He longed for a version of the VC literature that was both contemporary and focused on the world of work and adults. Nothing was availablethe only current literature on values was pure theory and of no help to the typical human development professional.Realizing that if it were to be it would be up to him Dr. Pierce J. Howard began the development of three legs to support a VC stool: 1) a comprehensive assessment of personal values for use in the workplace 2) another in the series of Owners Manuals that would focus on the exploration and implementation of values in the workplace and 3) a toolkit of scripts and activities that adult development professionals could use in coaching consulting and training.The assessmentThe Values Profile(TM)was completed and launched in 2013. This book represents the second leg of the VC stoola treatment of the history theory and application of values to the lives of adults. The third leg is a companion book to The Owners Manual for Values at Work and is titled The Values Toolkita collection of eight scripts and 42 activities that cover topics such as motivating employees relationship management team development leadership and sales training the corporate values statement and succession planning. The Toolkit is nutsandbolts practical and applicationoriented and is available separately from this Owners Manual.The second leg of the stool this Owners Manual for Values at Work contains a semantic map that articulates how values morals beliefs virtues traits and other personality attributes interrelate. Based on the simple definition that values are what is important to us the volume includes a comprehensive map of the Self a detailed presentation of the set of 16 values researched by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (Charlotte North Carolina) the impact of genes and culture on values an explanation of the VC 7step model a list of films and literary works that illustrate the 16 values a summary of how the 16 values form the basis of motivating self and others how to integrate values into the teaching of various workplace subjects (leadership sales quality teamwork and so forth) and ends with a guide for developing a personal values action plan.show more