how to use organisational values

1. Print them onto a laminated card and take them to every meeting.
   

2. Begin each meeting by reading the values (and perhaps the code of conduct you developed during the the team building section of your workshop). Remind the people at the meeting that this is how they said they’d like to behave.
   

3. At the end of the meeting, read the values again, and ask the group to comment on how the group behaved in compared to their values. Ask them what they feel they should do to improve.
   

4. Use your values to develop a 'thought for the day' and put this onto your email system.
   

5. Put a value or a quotation that reflects a value onto every stationary item and communication medium in your organisation.. e.g. memos, newsletters or internal web sites.
   

6. Whenever you need to make a decision, use the values to guide you.
   

7. When you recruit new people, show them the values, and ask them what  each value means to them. Listen carefully to see whether you are recruiting people that will naturally support your values or not.
   

8. Include your values in your training and induction programmes.
   

9. Get your team to brainstorm hundreds of other creative ways to communicate the values and to make them live.

Make your values the new habit - the way things are done in your organization.

Remember it takes 21 practice sessions to change a habit.
 Try to find at least 21 different ways to reinforce your values.

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