Values

Great people want to work at places where they can actually use their talents, where they are treated with dignity, trust, and respect, and where they are engaged by the values and culture of the organisation.
-- Charles O'Reilly and Jeffrey Pfeffer, Hidden Value

What Are Organisational Values?
Values are the behaviours particularly valued in an organisation; the principles of “the way things are done around here”, underpinning the culture. They can be considered the DNA of any organisation’s culture. They can provide competitive advantage.

Competing organisations may share the same values, e.g. Integrity, Trust, Innovation, Team work, Customers First, Excellence, Respect. It is how they bring those values alive, and into their behaviour that differentiates one organisation from another.

Aligning And Living Your Organisational Values
For many organisations, aligning to their values, and bringing them alive, is a challenge unmet. Often values are espoused, not practised. When this happens, cynicisms abounds and trust goes.

Most organisations spend around 80-90% of their time developing their values, and the rest marketing them. We suggest that 25% of your time at most should be spent on developing your organisational values, and 75% spent on talking about what they mean, getting common beliefs round them, matching individual values to organisational values to gain commitment to them, and bringing them into behaviours, and aligning all policies and procedures to your values.

How Change Dynamics Will Help
We work with organisations to assist them in these critical steps.
• Developing your values
• Working with senior teams to identify and commit to the values
• Developing behaviours to demonstrate your values
• Individuals identifying their own work values
• Facilitation of matching individual and organisational values
• Facilitating discussions on beliefs around your values
• Alignment with all your policies and procedures