How Personal Values Influence the Way You Contribute

Someone who strongly values service may be drawn toward helping people directly.

Someone who values innovation may prefer creating new solutions.

Someone who values stability may contribute through building dependable systems.

Someone who values achievement may seek challenging goals and measurable outcomes.

Someone who values community may place greater importance on collective wellbeing.

This means that contribution has both a capacity dimension and a values dimension.

Your skills may influence:

"What can I do?"

Your values may influence:

"What do I consider worth doing?"

When the two intersect, people can begin to identify forms of contribution that are both possible and meaningful.

That intersection can be useful when evaluating careers, roles, projects and opportunities.