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Here is a list of possible values as you are working to determine your core values, both personally and organizationally. It is a good idea to define the values for your organization as the same word can hold different contexts.

• Dependability
• Reliability
• Loyalty
• Commitment
• Open-mindedness
• Consistency
• Honesty
• Efficiency
• Innovation
• Creativity
• Good humor
• Compassion
• Spirit of adventure
• Motivation
• Positivity
• Optimism
• Passion
• Respect
• Fitness
• Courage
• Education
• Perseverance
• Patriotism
• Service to others
• Environmentalism

Personal Core Values may be similar to organizational values, but could include others like:

• Love - that can include patience, kindness, forgiveness, trust, selflessness, compassion and protection
• Integrity - which can incorporate honesty, truthfulness, responsibility, reliability, dependability, consistency, decency, justice, sincerity and commitment
• Stewardship - resourcefulness, charity, contribution, or giving
• Wisdom - consisting of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, good judgment, insight, perception, discipline, experience, personal growth, discretion and intuition
• Freedom - or alternatively, independence, free will, liberty, autonomy, and/or self-determination
• Achievement - success, or accomplishment
• Happiness - joy, contentment, pleasure, bliss, delight, and/or gladness
• Peace - harmony, unity, tranquility, or serenity
• Perseverance - persistence, or determination
• Respect -  appreciate, esteem, value, or cherish 

Here is a bank of what-if questions to use as examples for the "What-If" game from the Experiential Tools in Part 2: Open Mindedness. These and more questions can be found at: 

https://icebreakerideas.com/what-if-questions/ 

• What if all the oceans dried up?
• What if computers took over the world?
• What if money cannot buy happiness? Can one be happy with no money?
• What if no one hears a sound? Does it still exist?
• What if plastic was banned?
• What if you could shape your own future just as you wanted it to be?
• What if someone wrote a story about you? Would you be a considered a hero or a villain in your story?
• What if the Law of Attraction exists?
• What if the South won the Civil War?
• What if there was no electricity for a year anywhere in the world?
• What if we cannot have happiness without sadness?
• What if we found live dinosaurs living on a remote island?
• What if you could change one awful event in world history, but it might mean you would never have been born?
• What if you could change one thing about the world? What would it be?
• What if you could find a cure for a disease? Which one would you want to cure?
• What if you could have a free chip put in your child’s brain to provide all basic knowledge – math, language, and history facts, etc.?
• What if you could live forever and the earth remained just as it is now?
• What if you could relive any moment in your life whenever you wished to? Which moment would you choose and why?
• What if you could remember everything that happened to you from the time you were born?
• What if you could spend your life never sleeping? What would you do with the extra hours in each day?
• What if people cared more about doing the right thing than doing things right?
• What if you could not make your own decisions, but you had to choose someone else to make them for you? Who would you choose and why?
• What if you had to spend 100 days on a desert island all alone? What ten things would you take with you and why?
• What if you were badly injured in an accident and your car ran off the road and was hidden from site?
• What if you were invited to high tea with the Queen of England?
• What if you were offered the opportunity to go into space?
• What if you were shipwrecked on an uninhabited island?
• What if you were the President of the United States?
• What if you woke up and could not speak your native language, but only one that you could not understand?
• What if you woke up and discovered you were the only person on earth?
• What if you woke up one morning with only the clothes you sleep in all alone in another country unable to speak the country’s language?

 "I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.

"For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process.

"If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially 

‘playing dice with the universe’, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning.

 "But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe. Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives."

 "God does not play dice with the universe," 

Energy and Leadership are not limited only to titles or positions. When you are aware of the energy behind the actions you take, you will make conscious choices toward what you do want as opposed to only away from what you don't want.

 Bruce D Schneider is the Founder of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) Bruce is often referred to as a modern-day philosopher whose seemingly endless insights are both thought-provoking and transformational.  

For more information about his Energy Leadership Index or his book Energy Leadership, visit his website, EnergyLeadership.com.