Welcome to Values Perspectives and Leadership

UCSC Graduate Division Leadership Certificate program.

You are on the cusp of becoming a fully-realized leader, in a challenging world. How can your unique potential be fully unleashed, developed and most importantly, sustained?

It starts with YOU.

How can change be accomplished? With OTHERS.

Learn about your values, the values of those you will choose to collaborate with, and the values of those you wish to positively influence.

Workshop Resources

Getting Prepared

Complete the Values Perspectives Online Survey

Suggested Article

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

Suggested Article

(…if you have the time for a “long read” — we suggest you take the survey first)

Workshop Agenda

January 9, 2025 Noon-1:30 PST

Especially in this divisive time, values-based leadership is fundamental moving us constructively forward. We each possess unique leadership potential. Knowing who you are and what you value is key to unlocking it. This is an opportunity to explore, in the company of peers, who you are as a leader and why it matters.

Welcome

What are Values

Understanding Your Values

Values Dynamics, Communication and Positive Influence

Discover: The Value of Learning Cohorts for Deeper and Sustained Learning

Cohort learning helps in:

  • building dialogue skills including constructive argument and giving and receiving feedback;

  • reflecting on and testing ideas with the benefit of diverse perspectives;

  • getting objective feedback from people with whom you have created a relationship of basic trust;

  • receiving mutual support;

  • receiving feedback and support in personal or group projects.

Suggested Article

By UCLA psychologist Shelley E. Taylor

Resources

For now and for future reference…

Resources will be added for your reference and this page will remain available to you during the calendar year of 2024.

Your Cohort’s Values in Aggregate 2025

Download Annotated Workshop Powerpoint

What we do in this workshop is governed first and foremost by the value of Safety. This means that your data is confidential, you will not be asked to share anything at any time beyond what you feel comfortable with. We ask that you not share your Values Perspectives survey personal report with others in this workshop, but instead share what is important to you in your own words.

Highly Recommended

Lina Echeverria Ph.D., Max Planck Institute trained geologist and leader of the Corning Glass team that created Gorilla Glass, cogently shares her leadership philosophy and practice. This enlightening and beautifully written book is full of concrete advice from a seasoned and successful leader, and is of special interest to leaders who manage highest-level technological innovations and innovators.

Bent Flyvbjerg’s Making Social Science Matter is one of the most useful books we have encountered in the course of our work. At its core is an analysis of assumptions about learning, the nature and purpose of dialogue, and how we can come to a more effective understanding and practice of leveraging real power as leaders and within groups.