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Personal Values

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After completing the Personal Values Questionnaire, I selected five items that represent my personal values. My personal core values are connectedness, fairness, family, communication, and teamwork. These are the values that affect my decisions making and influence my behavior while working with students and other professionals in higher education. My values are definitely align with my personal beliefs. Connectedness, fairness, family, communication, and teamwork are important values to me because they describe the person I am as well as my wants and needs. Connectedness plays a tremendous role while I help students navigate their application process and it provides for me a sense of belonging in the department I work with. For instance, as a counselor assistant, I love helping students that need guidance transferring to a four year institution. When I am assisting students I can relate to some of the difficulties they might be experiencing. Of course, I keep in mind that each student has their own unique experience, but by having a sense of connectedness, I am able to empathize with their needs. I can connect the dots why some students find the application process challenging or I am able to identify what other stressors might be affecting their decision making. Furthermore, fairness and teamwork are important values because through fairness one can have effective teamwork. I believe if there is not fairness within a group, it would be hard to connect with my colleagues, thus leading to poor comradery. In the context of higher education, teamwork is a vital facet in order to better serve our students. As a senior counselor assistant, I try my best to be fair with my teammates. I share the group work equally and I always make myself available to my teammates even after work hours, because I truly care for my group and the well-being of the students.
The last two personal core values that represent who I am is family and communication. Without my family I would not be a caring individual. As the oldest child in my family, I learned how to communicate to my mother when my siblings and I were encountering hardships with other individuals. I learned from home what communication consist of and the importance of

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