Valueballs 10 ball kits : VALUEBALLS

The Valueballs 10 ball kits include:

10 unique valueballs - each ball contains a carefully prepared value challenge related to the subject area
1 x 10 space evidence chart (to suit the 10 balls)
1 easy-to-follow leaders guide booklet.

The kit of 10 balls can be used in several ways, for example:

1 individual carrying out 10 challenges over a 2-3 month period.
a team of 10 people, each carrying out 1 challenge
a team of 3 or 4 carrying out 2-3 challenges each.

There are currently five 10 ball kits to choose from:

valuable self-management
valuable team interactions
valuable communication
valuable business development
valuable conference interactions.

Click the above tabs for details about each kit.

Add value everyday through:

Valuable Self-Management

The 10 self-management valueballs™ will compel you to scrutinise your daily personal and work behaviours, to make immediate improvements and to produce evidence of your actions and outcomes.

You will be challenged to show how you have added value through:

having clarity of purpose
decision making and breaking through procrastination
doing more of what is important to you personally and to your business
effective personal organisation
skill development.

What would you do if you opened this valueballs™ challenge?

"Over the next 5 work days, ask 2 team members and 2 customers (internal or external) about how they believe your performance could be improved.

Hold your tongue and listen! Choose at least one of the suggestions from the conversations and give it a try.

Write the action you are trying (and anything else you would like to add about the experience) to your space on the evidence chart."

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Valuable Team Interactions

The 10 team interaction valueballs™ will compel team members to scrutinise their daily team interactions and behaviours, to make immediate improvements and to produce evidence of their actions and the outcomes.

Team members will be challenged to show how they have added value through:

cultivating and using positive team experiences to improve the team’s effectiveness
rewarding and recognising team members
boosting team morale
personally improving a team relationship
team engagement and intra-team interactions
improving your team’s influence within your business.

What would your team members do if they opened this valueballs™ challenge?

"Within the next 5 working days, make a new contact internally or externally. Have a conversation with this person that will improve the influence you and your team can have within the organisation. Make a recommendation for how the team can work with this person to improve its influence and effectiveness. Record your contact, meeting notes and recommendation in your space on the evidence chart."

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Valuable Communications

The 10 team interaction valueballs™ will compel team members to scrutinise their daily team interactions and behaviours, to make immediate improvements and to produce evidence of their actions and the outcomes.

Team members will be challenged to show how they have added value through:

finding out about the impact of your communication style on the people you interact with everyday
improving regular communication processes
using the most influential forms of communication in your daily business dealings
critically reviewing your communication performance in an important presentation or meeting
preparing and carrying out some difficult conversations.

What would you do if you opened this valueballs™ challenge?

"Ask 3 of your clients (internal or external – you pick), for their ideas on how communication between you and them could be enhanced. Document the main ideas from the conversations and take action on the one you like best. Share your findings with at least 2 colleagues. Add your writings and the action you are taking to your space on the evidence chart. You have 7 days."

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Valuable Business Development

The 10 business development valueballs™ will compel you to carry out a variety of investigations and activities to help you assess how well your current business strategy is performing. You will use your findings to make immediate improvements to strategy execution.

You will be challenged to produce evidence of how you have added value through:

finding out what customers perceive as your value proposition
assessing competitors and building competitive advantage
‘live testing’ some customer interactions
building awareness of potential business opportunities and resilience to potential threats
addressing internal business development obstacles.

What would you do if you opened this valueballs™ challenge?

"What do you believe is the real value we offer as an organisation? List at least 3 distinct points of value. Then, share your points with 2 colleagues and ask them for their ideas. Add some of their ideas to your list. Now, come up with 2 ways to build these points of value into your daily work – no matter what your position. Give them a try. Add your list and actions to your space on the evidence chart. You have 4 work days."

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Valuable Conference Interactions

The 10 conference interaction valueballs™ will compel conference participants to truly engage in the conference content and challenge them to interact in unique dialogues with other participants. These valueballs™ push participants beyond their usual conference behaviours to provoke information sharing, critique and application of ideas and insights from the gathering – all within the time constraints of the event.

Participants are challenged to add value to the conference by:

creatively sharing the essence and insights of the conference
capturing and promoting ‘what if’ questions and fostering input from others
actively seeking new and different opinions from a range of other participants and making their findings known to all
generating surprising moments to highlight key issues
creating novel ways to record and ‘take-away’ expertise, insights, questions and discussion points.

What would you do if you opened one of these valueballs™ challenges at the start of your next conference?

Your challenge is to in some way capture the energy or the spirit of an important moment during the conference and to take it back to your workplace. You must take an opportunity during the second half of the conference to share what you have ‘captured’ and how you are taking it back."