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Values Your Team Will Love and Live
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Values Your Team Will Love and Live
John Clark, Founder, Ant Packaging
Through The Where and The Why Workshop, we create a fun experience to co-create your Values with your team. According to McKinsey research, when team members contribute to the development of initiatives, they are 3.4 times more likely to be successful. The result is that Values are meaningful for the team and an enhanced culture. We find that culture typically improves +35% within 8-months following our strategic planning workshop.
Values are something that you can consciously choose and be proactive about. Once they are stated, it’s important that they are true, authentic and the team is committed to them.
Who wants to live by boring, generic, and meaningless Values? No one! Through the Workshop, we’ll develop creative Values that are engaging for everyone.
Take for example, Bangalow-based sustainable packaging manufacturer, Ant Packaging. Together we developed Values using their “Ant” theme:
“This was a game-changer for the Ant Packaging team,” says Founder, John Clark. “In the Workshop defined our core Values in a fun and inclusive way, which really engaged our staff. We’ve fostered an inclusive culture, encouraged innovation, and celebrated achievements along the way. It’s truly transformed our organisation, and we highly recommend it to others!”
For each Value, it’s also important to articulate a team behaviour that supports it, so the team knows how they are expected to behave. Often these are used for recruitment, induction, and performance reviews. “Having clearly articulated behaviours to support the Values makes it easy for the team to understand our expectations,” says John.
Once Values have been defined, they cannot just be passive statements. “Clarity of Values has helped engage our team in where we are going and knowing what part they play in it,” says Oztix Founder and Director, Stuart Field. “Not only this, but we have also tied in our Values into an annual set of staff awards. We break the staff into small teams with representatives from each department and each month they nominate staff who have done something that matches our Values. Each team then nominates a staff member who deserves a nomination for each Value, and we report on and track progress. What this has achieved is a constant focus on our Values and it also reinforces the behaviours we want to see. Now everyone in the business calls out when there are positive things done by team members.”
“Values that say “This is us. This is who we are. This is what we stand for.” is very powerful.” adds Mark Dezius, Operations Manager, Hayes Spraying.
Do you need help in defining your organisation’s Values? We can help! Book a free discovery call. One small step for you, One giant leap for your team.
