Integrity Etc.

How can you attract the best people, align your organisation and speed up decision making?

Written By:

Dave Greasley
& Rob Alderson

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Description

Too many company values look the same. Lists of noble-sounding words, at best hazily remembered by the people they are meant to guide. But values matter more than ever. Lots of people are unhappy at work, and those happiness scores are falling faster than ever.

The right company values can attract, retain and engage the best people. They align organisations, speed up decision-making, and unlock new levels of ambition. Leaders need to think of values as a powerful management tool and build their culture around them.

This book shows you how.

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Excerpt

Where Is That PDF?

Does your organisation have a set of values?
Great, do you know what they are?

If you can’t recite them off the top of your head, you’re not alone. Researchers have consistently found that around 50% of employees don’t know their company values.

Most leaders would tell you that values are an important, maybe even crucial, part of building the right organisational culture. So how do we explain this disconnect? Why are organisations struggling to create values that stick?

It’s not through a lack of effort. Leadership teams often invest time and money into creating company values. They clear their calendars and head away to off-sites to think, discuss and agree what the values should be.

Given the seriousness with which they approach this task, it’s incredible how quickly, and how completely, the values they come back with can slide into irrelevance.

Maybe they get buried somewhere in a sheaf of onboarding documents, mixed up with IT instructions and your expenses policy. Maybe they’re printed on a poster that hangs in an unloved stairwell. Maybe they never become physical at all, and live only in a barely-opened PDF you looked at once on your first day.