The Value of Values

Do you have company values? And if you do, are they underpinned by the daily behaviours of everyone in your organisation? Or do you struggle to remember them at all? In this post, I want to do something a little bit differently. I’m going to ask you some questions. Do you have company values? If you don’t have any company values, I’ll give you some tips on how you might be able to start the process of defining them. And if you do have company values, can you name them off the top of your head (without Googling what they should be)? <h1>Values Are Central</h1> This is a really important reflection point because we all know how important values are. You’ve probably heard people say things like: <ul> <li>Values are the beacon, the guiding light of our organisation</li> <li>Values are the lens through which we make business decisions</li> <li>Values enable everyone to understand the behaviours that are important here</li> <li>Values underpin our culture.</li> </ul> But quite often, these are just words on a wall. Recently, an organisation said to me, ‘I want you to help us embed our values’. I said, ‘Okay, great, what are your values?’ And the answer was, ‘I knew you’d asked me that!’ Even though the organisation came to me specifically to embed their values, they couldn’t actually articulate what their values were. I think that’s where we need to stop for a moment and ask, what is the purpose of our values? <a href="https://karen-amplifyhr.medium.com/the-value-of-values-d8a03bf8724e">Learn More</a>