Culture and value system go hand in hand. If you want the right culture and values to spread throughout your team you have to build a solid value system.
These values will spread through your team leading to both conscious and unconscious changes in their behaviors and work performance. Pick the values that you feel will best benefit the team, clients and organization.
So often organizations will set their values but they are often pushed to the side because there isn’t a strong accountability mechanism established. As the leader within the organization accountability starts with you and it is important that you internalize the values that are put into place, holding yourself accountable to those values first. In other words, be seen to be doing what you asking of others.
When you set the value system and hold yourself and your staff accountable to those values it will allow you to easily facilitate the following:
- Conflict management
- Time management
- Non-bias recognition
- Presence of mind
- Communication
- Listening skills
- Overall general behavior
Review your values both written and unspoken. Make sure that your actions and words are aligned. When they aren’t re-evaluate the value to determine if it is still relevant or if it needs to be replaced based on the current state of the organization. Make sure your team knows and understands the values and what demonstrating those values looks like. Hold yourself and your team accountable and call each other out when behaviors and actions go against those values. Consistency in these things will determine your success.
Last updated on March 1st, 2018 at 05:37 am
