Values Draw
A brief coaching exercise. Sort sixty-eight value cards against a clock, then prioritize them to your preference, and find out which ones you actually keep when two of them collide.
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Type: Values Card Sort / Single Page Application (SPA)
Domain: Coaching / Self-Assessment
Purpose & Origins
A values card sort is a brief coaching exercise. A facilitator puts a stack of value words in front of you, you sort them faster than you can second-guess, and what is left is a shorter and more honest list than anything you would have written from a blank page. values-draw is that exercise without the printed deck. Sixty-eight values come past on a timer you set, three seconds if you want pushing and seven if you want room, and the line on the setup screen is the entire method: do not deliberate. The clock is there to outrun the part of you that picks the value it thinks it ought to pick.
Architecture & Technology
A single self-contained page with no backend, no account and no network call. The draw runs in two rounds, and the second is the one that does the work. Round one is the timed pass: keep a card or let it go, by tap, swipe or arrow key, with the fuse running down to force the pace.
Round two takes the survivors and puts them into pairwise matches, "tap the one that's more true", scoring each value with an Elo rating so a card that keeps beating strong opponents finishes above one that only beat weak ones. The sixty-eight values are tagged into six groups (Drive & Excellence, Integrity & Trust, Care & Connection, Curiosity & Growth, Courage & Self, Balance & Grace), so the summary reports a top eight, every value's rating, and where the six groups landed against each other, which is usually the more useful reading. The run and the last summary sit in localStorage. Results leave the machine only if you send them: copied as text, or printed to PDF.
Scope & Uniqueness
Most values assessments on the web are a lead magnet with a questionnaire attached: answer thirty questions, hand over an email address, receive a PDF that recommends something to buy. This one has no gate and nothing to sell. It also does the part the paid versions tend to skip, which is forcing a ranking. A list of ten values you like is easy to produce and tells you very little. The pairwise round exists because the question worth answering is not which values you hold, but which one you put down when two of them will not both fit. For a coach running this with someone else, the useful property is the plain one: the session happens on that person's machine and no part of it was ever uploaded.
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