What are Values?

Your organization’s values are the guiding principles that determine the actions of your employees.

• Values may be documented or undocumented.
• Values may be lofty (give back to the community) or practical (make a profit).
• Values may be consistent with each other or in conflict.

Regardless of whether the values of your organization are documented or not, the actions of the leaders of your company will be the values that employees follow.

And if your values are in conflict with each other, staff will be immobilized at times and unsure of how to proceed. This will result in them requiring more guidance, in work taking longer than it should, and inconsistency of results.