Many of the organisations we work with around the world are re-discovering the real power of meaningful Values.

Values have often either been pushed onto businesses top down in corporatised language or just imposed from an initiative from days gone by. People then struggle to remember the Values, let alone apply them in their day-to-day work, strategic endeavours or overall meaning in terms of their jobs.

Many leaders are finding it extraordinarily powerful to re-ground their businesses with something beyond (but still through the lenses of) purpose, vision, strategy and ways of working.

Values provide a way to do this.

The most powerful approach we have seen is an executive team who engaged their entire organisation, bottom up, to create a newer and more meaningful set of Values.

This process, through a Virtual Program, has enabled people to truly be involved in a way like never before – stewardship both in the process and the outcomes.

Having clear Values makes it easier for organisations to live and breathe them every day – for each other, their teams and their customers.

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REFLECTION ACTIVITY – YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE’S VALUES

This quick 5-minute activity is a useful and practical way for you to personally build off the Insight.

As an organisation:

• How powerful might it be for everything to be done through the lens of a set of Values created by the whole company?
• What would be the benefits for the business, its leadership, culture, partners and customers?
• How might such an approach help people in this current COVID situation?
• How aware are people around the company’s current Values?
• How are they applied?

Personally:

• Do you have a clear set of Values you apply in life?
• How important are they to you?
• How are aligned are they to your company’s Values?