Values shared outperform values imposed.

Building a culture of good values is the best thing you can do.

 Do your personal goals and those of your stakeholders align with your values? If they don’t align, people procrastinate, and little progress will be made with your planning efforts and most other aspects of your business.

Congruence relates to job satisfaction, more profitable growth, and sustainability, with positive outcomes driving the organisation. In just a few words, set out the passions, values, and commitments that define you personally and your organisation.

What does your organisation stand for, and what do your community members and employees exemplify? What do your values contribute to your business, the community, and the world? Answering these questions succinctly and meaningfully is challenging but worth pursuing to craft ‘core value statements’. These commonly held beliefs and commitments will be the glue that holds everything together.

Every individual and every organisation makes hundreds of decisions every day. These decisions reflect our beliefs and are always directed towards a specific purpose. That purpose is the satisfaction of our individual or collective wants and needs. They are essential because they help us grow and develop. They help us create the sort of future we want to experience.

Spell out your values for all to see.

You need to spell them out for two reasons. Firstly, it will attract the kind of people you like to be with and work with. Secondly, people without knowing will quickly become disenchanted when they discover they are fundamentally different.

Align your values, and success will follow.

Quotable quotes.

 “Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent”. Jan Balkenende

“Today, we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in the good old values anymore”. Lin Yutang