Throughout a company’s lifetime certain values and behaviors develop within the company. When a company is small, these values and behaviors are greatly affected through team members close proximity to the company’s owner/leader. When a company grows it may become increasingly difficult to maintain those behaviors and values that made the company successful in the past. In an effort to reinforce their unique culture, many companies have established a written list of Core Values.
With this in mind, our company’s management team recently worked together to establish a list of Core Values that adequately defines those unique values and behaviors that have lead to our company’s past success. Through the efforts of the management team in conjunction with feedback from many of our fellow team members, a list of Core Values was created.
This list of Core Values reflects what is truly important to us as an organization. These are not values that change from time to time, situation to situation, or person to person, but rather they are the underpinning of our company culture. By maintaining these Core Values, regardless of how large our company becomes, we can preserve what has always been special about our company. These core values are the soul of our company.
Safety and Compliance - Strive for 100% compliance from 100% of our employees. We want to be known for excellence in environmental, safety, and all other areas of compliance.
Accountability - Do what we are say we are going to do. This includes conducting our affairs with integrity at all times.
Value Creation - Create real, long-term value by improving people’s lives and prosperity. Know your stakeholders, and profitably anticipate and satisfy their needs.
Entrepreneurship - Demonstrate the sense of urgency, accountability, initiative, and risk-taking mentality that is necessary to promote the company’s future success.
Customer Focus - Enjoy when the customer succeeds and do not allow any gaps in the Customer Service Chain.
Growth - Pursue personal and professional growth. Meet your full potential, and find fulfillment at work.
Adaptability - Embrace and drive change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.
Efficiency - Do more with less. Strive to eliminate waste, and increase productivity.
I want to thank all those who helped out in establishing this list of Core Values. As a team, we now need to find ways to ensure that these values continue to be part of our culture.
I’d love to know you thoughts. tony@repowell.net
Tony
www.repowell.net
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As a member of the Key 3 for the Day Camp Committe of the Grand Columbia Council I have learned that we must instill into our youth, not just for our sons but our daughters too, the 12 Core Values. The 12 Core Values being: Perseverance, Respect, Citizenship, Compassion, Cooperation, Courage, Faith, Health and Fitness, Honesty, Positive Attitude, Resourcefulness, and Responsibility. Several of these Core Values transfer to the Boy Scouts.
ReplyDeleteThese values help to make our youth true citizens and responible adults. Before we can begin to be responsible for our companies we must learn to follow said values.
As with everything, what we learn as a child will stay with us as an adult. And sometimes once in awhile, what we learned as a child we can teach as an adult to others adults.