Are you or staff disconnected from your workplace values? Do you talk about your core values? Encouraging staff to live by them? Can you hold your workplace accountable if they are not met?
When work performance becomes an issue in your staff can you address this through your company values?
What direction does your workplace values focus on? Is it customer focus, product focus, service focus, or staff focus? Are your workplace value directions balanced?
We find increasingly that the current workforce is becoming disconnected from their workplace corporate values. This will affect staff performance, morale, confidence, and retention. It affects the quality of leadership. It will also affect customer confidence and quality of service.
Have you looked at your company reviews lately and see what former employees have said about your company? Reviews, especially from the millenial workforce, talk about lack of value transparency and relevance as the main reason they left a particular employer. Statements like, 'they do not live their values in this company,''They are disconnected from their values', 'No one believes in them anymore'.
When you have low work productivity, poor conduct from staff or leaders' step back and look at it through a values lens. What values are not being met in your staff and leaders? Is this lowering respect for one another in your team? A values conversation can address poor behaviors, attitudes, performance, and motivation in any workplace.
This book and the 'Values Guy' Podcast continue the conversation of how important aligning our lives and work around values. I hope you enjoy the journey.
