Read from book: Giving Voice to Values How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right.

writer’s name: Mary C. Gentile
write two stories and include all the information requested.
1.Exercise: write about a time when you spoke up  and voiced your values

B. Describe an experience when your values conflicted with what you were expected to do.

C. What did you do, and what was the impact?

D. What motivated you to speak up and act?

E. How satisfied are you? How would you like to have responded?

F. What would have made it easier for you to speak and act?

a. Things within your control?

b. Things within the control of others?

2. Exercise: a time when you did not speak up
Describe an experience when your values conflicted with what you were expected to do.

I. What did you do, and what was the impact?

J. What motivated you to speak up and act?

K. How satisfied are you? How would you like to have responded?

L. What would have made it easier for you to speak and act?

c. Things within your control?

d. Things within the control of others?
–Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Different ways to challenge an action –

a. Assertion

b. Humor

c. Questioning

d. Research

e. Provide new data

f. Negotiation

g. Reframe the issue

h. Setting an example

i. Identifying allies and support for your values

j. Developing shared goals

k. Having another with more clout to raise the issue

l. Listen and ask other if they have dealt with the issue successfully- stories to tell

m. Persuasion