How do we learn “Values,” and develop Emotional Intelligence?

At Frank Recruitment Group we hire internally based on values and EIQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) – Our global training and development programme will teach the craft of recruitment and the enterprise skills required to carve out a successful global career if the individual has an internal motivation to learn and succeed. It's hard to teach values though!

Values, Empathy, Resilience and Gratefulness are traits that are learned from our environment.

Frank Recruitment Group partners with Rugby Victoria and the Melbourne Rebels. We want to work with a community holding shared values such as “Respect,” and “Excellence.” Our involvement in the Victorian sporting community leads to brand familiarity and drives applicants to Frank Recruitment Group who demonstrate the values we look for, and recognise the amazing career opportunities we provide!

Our responsibility to teach values

Attila Yilmaz, the owner of Pazar Food Collective in Sydney recently split opinion by banning iPads and colouring books saying that children should be “…involved with the food and experience.”

As a parent of three kids, I am backing Attila’s ban.

Martin Heppell from The Resilience Project explains that a kid in a restaurant with their head in an iPad will not see someone opening a door to help a parent through with a stroller; this is a missed opportunity to demonstrate a vital life lesson in empathy.

I have made a promise this year to make time available to take my kids out on a rotating “Dad’s Dinner Night,” each week so they get quality one-to-one time with me. No phones, iPads or interruptions. Our dinner nights are all about conversation, I listen to their stories, problems, hopes, worries and encourage them to tell me what they are grateful for and how they have helped others that week. Importantly, I also tell them about my hopes and discuss how I am going to overcome my problems or concerns that week. We also discuss failures in a very positive way. I tell my kids about some of my failures that week – it is important for my kids to realise that we all fail, failure is not a bad thing, it is a part of life and if we embrace failure positively it makes us who we are when we succeed. Failure makes us value success and keeps us humble.

As well as quality time with the kids, priceless with our busy lives, I am teaching my boy to grow up into a well-mannered and respectful man. I am teaching my girls that they are equal to their brother, they can play the same sports, have the same dreams and need to develop the same life skills. My girls know that they can be leaders. I am also teaching all of my kids how they should expect to be treated, how they deserve respect and how their opinion is important and should be listened to. I am confident that my kids will emulate my values, and my wife's values, and they will go through life treating others how they wish to continue to be treated themselves.

Surround yourself with people who demonstrate values important to you. Take the time to listen to the people important to you, make good choices based on your own values and demonstrate them at every opportunity.

James Liley - Vice President ANZ - Frank Recruitment Group

The Resilience Project - https://www.dhirubhai.net/company/the-resilience-project/about/ Melbourne Rebels’ Values - https://www.rugbyvic.com.au/about/melbourne-rebels

Frank Recruitment Group - https://careers.frankgroup.com/unique-culture/