Values Statement Best Practices
Values Statements articulate an organization’s core beliefs and principles that drive performance and behavior. They contain the essential and enduring tenets of an organization.
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Description of Values Statement
A foundational component of a healthy organization is an articulated set of values that are shared by its members and guide its core beliefs, actions and culture. Being intentional about how those values influence the way employees interact with one another, make decisions, and celebrate accomplishments helps to build a culture rooted in shared values, which fosters alignment across teams and the entire organization. Identifying your organization’s core values, understanding and communicating why they are important, and determining what it means to live by those values can help achieve the culture envisioned by the organization.
Praxie's Online Values Statement Tools & Templates
When developing a long-term business strategy for a business, the leadership team must think carefully about the organization’s core principles and philosophical ideals. The creation of Values Statements should be used to both inform and guide decision making and behavior across the organization and signal to external suppliers and customers alike what is important to the business and the employees that work there. Values Statements should be inspirational and motivational and align with the overarching Vision Statement for the business. By living up to the values of the company and embodying the Values Statements, employees and business leaders should be able to help accomplish the business’s overarching goals and objectives.
Using the new online Values Statement tool from Praxie, strategy teams and business leaders can gather feedback from across the business and build Values Statements that align with the core beliefs of the people within the business. Get started with our Values Statement template.
How to use it:
- List your specific values and define each one with respect to how your organization will embody the value as part of its culture.
- Based on these values, write a statement that encapsulates your values and how you will use them to guide your organization into the future.
- Create an action plan for developing your Values Statement.
Unlike most traditional Values Statement techniques, Praxie’s online Values Statement collaboration tools allow any team or organization to instantly begin working with our web templates and input forms. Our digital platform goes far beyond other software tools by including progress dashboards, data integration from existing documents or other SaaS software, elegant intuitive designs, and full access on any desktop or mobile device.
