Clare Walker – Personal Values Coaching Cards | Expert Interview

Discover the Personal Values Coaching Card deck with Expert, Clare Walker Dive into a great discussion between Clare Walker, expert in Personal Values and Darren A. Smith, MBM CEO. Here, the pair talk about why Clare is perfect author of this deck, due to her expertise, training and extensive career experience, how the deck works and what you can do to improve your coaching whilst utilising Coaching Cards. Watch the full podcast on YouTube by clicking the image above. Read the full Personal Values podcast transcript below: Clare Walker, Vodafone 0:04 Yeah. Darren A. Smith 0:06 OK, so the whole thing is probably, I don't know, 3-4 minutes, 5 minutes. You know, it's not a long video. It's as much as you want to say. Really the idea is we're helping people to understand and use them. Clare Walker, Vodafone 0:20 Well, no, I'm not. I'm gonna go the personal values. They just look at the opposite way around for the simple reason I built those as very bespoke, not bespoke. But yeah, I built them quite bespoke. Darren A. Smith 0:34 OK. Clare Walker, Vodafone 0:36 Yeah. OK. Let me go personal wrong. Darren A. Smith 0:40 So the first question coming up after I ask you who you are and what you do is what are these personal values cards all right. So we're just doing the what the what the why in the how. OK. So let me make sure you're OK with that. Clare Walker, Vodafone 0:58 Let me completely blame and just push my credit First off. I'm gonna be on video. Darren A. Smith 1:05 And then afterwards I got a different question for you. Nothing to do with the video, just something I've had your opinion on. OK. All right. I'm ready when you are. Clare Walker, Vodafone 1:13 OK. I'm ready now. Darren A. Smith 1:20 Talks, it looks real. It's good. Love the dunks. Hi, my name is Darren Smith. I'm from the world's stickiest learning. I'm here with Claire Walker from Vodafone. Claire, how you doing? Clare Walker, Vodafone 1:33 I'm very well. Thank you, Darren. Darren A. Smith 1:35 And Claire, what do you do at Vodafone? Clare Walker, Vodafone 1:38 I am the coaching and mentoring lead, so it means that I look after all things for external coaching, internal coaching, coaching resources and also training people how to have a coaching mindset as opposed to be coaches. Darren A. Smith 1:53 OK. And how long have you been doing coaching? Not necessarily just a Vodafone, but how long have you been doing coaching things for? Clare Walker, Vodafone 2:02 I started my professional or my my more structured career back in 2016, but actually through conversations and interviews like this, I realised I've pretty much been coaching all of my life. Darren A. Smith 2:14 Love that, love it. Love it. OK, OK, now we're here talking about these coaching card things. We have a number of coaching cards and you kindly collaborated with us on a particular deck. So I'm going to ask you a few questions to share with the folks that are watching. What are these things? Why did you create it and how to use them? So let's start with the first question. What did you create? What are they? Clare Walker, Vodafone 2:41 I created a deck that our personal values cards and I have them all here. Darren A. Smith 2:47 Oh yeah. Clare Walker, Vodafone 2:48 And there are 80 of them that help people to understand what their drivers, they're motivators, their way of being is. So by going through these you can really start to investigate what it is that's inside you that can. When you look at them and investigate them can cause less friction for you and greater understanding of not just who you are, but who the people around you are as well. Darren A. Smith 3:16 OK, so these are coaching cards. They look like they're the size of a playing card. OK, there's eighty of them and they come in a little box and their personal values. All right, got it. Got it. Could you show us a couple just so we can see what's written on these things? Clare Walker, Vodafone 3:32 Yes, absolutely. So each one of the cards has got a different word on it. So you can see this collaboration, there is tolerance, pleasure, passion. And as we go through the deck, they're then going to belonging dependability. Duty. Creativity. So there's 80 different words on here that when you look at them, they're not the top five or four or five words that you would normally choose as being your values. People normally say things like honesty and integrity and fairness and authenticity. This is a a bigger pattern, goes deeper and when people go through this, they choose cards that they've never really considered as being their values, but suddenly understand that actually it's really important to them to have fun or to be empathic or to belong. Darren A. Smith 4:19 OK, fabulous. And why did you create them or what problem do they solve? Clare Walker, Vodafone 4:27 Yeah, they I created them because I've been using them for some time. I mean, we ...