Organisational values: how to practise what we preach (part two)

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How can you ensure staff have a shared understanding of the organisation’s values? Learn how to come up with creative mechanisms to get people talking about values and expressing them in their own words.

Read a transcript of video two (Word, 28kb).
Video is 8mins 23s.

Video three: Practical applications of values

You'll learn how to:

identify opportunities to communicate values
reflect values in recruitment, induction, customer engagement, etc.

Do part three of the course for free (5mins 34s)

Video four: Top tips on creating values and keeping them alive

Revisit the tactics and opportunities that can help you to:

maintain an open dialogue about values
embed them within the organisation
live them every day.

Do part four of the course for free (5min 48s).

Further resources

View the full exploratory survey on organisational values carried out by KnowHow NonProfit and Visiting Fellows from Cass Centre for Charity Effectivenes (opens a PDF).

Discussion forum

If you have any questions about the information in these training videos go to our discussion forum and ask your trainer.

About the trainer

Ian Lawson is an associate consultant at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School. Previously he was at The Work Foundation/Industrial Society where he headed up the organisation's work on "Developing leadership within the world of work". He is experienced in designing and delivering programmes, sessions, presentations and is a team and executive coach. Ian has written 4 books and is a board member at the British Army Staff Leadership School.

Need more help?

Please discuss further training or consultancy opportunities with Ian via e-mail: IanLawson@leadership-works.co.uk.

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