Do You Clarify Your Values?

How do you feel about how business operates today?  Do you like the way employees are being treated?  What about productivity?  How about quality?  Do you like your company’s management practices?  Do you like your organization’s style?

Today’s businesses and organizations need managers, leaders and workers with  new skills and competencies to improve their performance in a world where major changes are occurring at an increasing rate.

It is time to create organizations with intact Self-Esteem practices which produce powerful  short and long term results.  This means bringing out the best in people.

Here are some of the Self-Esteem characteristics needed

in organizations:

1.  The organization’s values are known and practiced.

2.  The focus is on results with the dignity and respect of

      people being intact.

3.  Accountability is managed in a respectable, congruent manner by everyone.

4.  People are recognized, appreciated and affirmed for  who they are as people.

5.  There is a supportive environment and mentoring system.

6.  Each member of the organization has intact Self-Esteem.

The key component in creating an intact Self-Esteem organization is its values.  Values are that which is desirable of esteem for its own sake; that which is importance to an individual or company.  They are views held by individual human beings (consciously or non-consciously) of what is desirable and ethical.  Value statements provide direction for the organization and individuals.  They are best communicated both verbally and in writing.  Values provide standards by which people are influenced in their choices of actions.  Values are the basis for deciding what one is for or against or where one is going and how come.  Values give direction to our lives and help us establish our character.  Our values influence our basic or core ways of behaving as we are in relationship with others and our environment   Acknowledgment and support of an organization’s values can create a unifying force both inside and outside organization.

From only a few dozen basic values, people’s attitudes and beliefs flow out and are experienced as actions relative to some subject, issue or situation.  Values are subjective and become observable through  language; the words being used.  Values are only reflected in behavior when individuals or organizations meet their needs.  Congruence then occurs because the words and behavior go together, they are the same.  Only then do we believe that individuals and organizations are living their values.

Take a few moments now to discover your values.  Write down that which is desirable and ethical for you.  When you complete the list, note, by numbering one through five, which are your top five values.  Review these top five values to determine whether what you
say and do are the same.  If you are not acting on your values, it is because you have not yet learned how to meet your needs.

Take the steps necessary to live your values and then, watch what happens!

 

 McGrane Global Centers