@1QLeadership Question: How can core values help with decisions in the workplace?
Raymond Harrison, Senior Associate Athletics Director at NC State, discusses how core values and purpose are integral to how he navigates his career. From deciding whether or not to take a job, to deciding whether or not to hire someone, Harrison checks on value alignment throughout most of his decision making processes.
- you don’t teach values, you hire values
- you live life forward but you understand it looking backward
- values of the organization should be used to guide decisions within the organization
With patience as a core value, he strives to keep emotion out of his decisions. In terms of his personal life, he strives to live imperfectly in front of his children. One of his primary reasons for being in the college athletics industry is to ensure young people use the student-athlete experience to create better opportunities in their lives. – One Question Leadership Podcast – Tai M. Brown