Description
Your playbook to creating and living your company values as a start-up.
Creating your company values is an incredibly important but intense undertaking.
In this playbook, you will have everything you need to lead the initiative in your organization. Starting with what company values are (and are not) and the impact they can have on your organization.
This playbook then guides you through every step in identifying the right values for your organization including exercises to lead with your team, how to get feedback on potential values, how to wordsmith your final draft and finally rolling them out to your team.
Finally, there are examples of how you can live your values at every point of the employee life cycle, how to use them to make tough decisions, communicate change, share externally with potential candidates, and celebrate your culture.
Through examples of how other companies have defined their values and tied them to broader culture initiatives to different ways you can work with your teams during the process depending on your stage and size, this playbook has everything you need to create and live your values!
About the consultant
Karen D. WEEKS
Karen is a strategic partner whose drive is to help companies build and scale their culture to meet their business goals while helping people find purpose in their careers.
Her passion is around inclusive & supportive cultures, talent development, organizational effectiveness, individual career development, and helping teams through change.
Currently, Karen is the SVP of People at Ordergroove and was named one of the 2020 Notable Women in Talent by Crain’s New York Business.
Karen is also a certified career coach, speaker, advisor to start-up companies, board member with Girls in Tech NYC, the published author of “Setting the Stage: A Guide to Preparing for Any Feedback Conversation” and host of the podcast “Getting off the Hamster Wheel”.
She lives in NYC with her husband and furry babies.
Why is this Important
Your company values, especially as a start-up, should be your DNA.
The behaviors and characteristics that define your team and you work as an organization. Values create a common language about your culture and should help guide how you make decisions, communicate and work together.
They should also be characteristics of a successful team member, past the skills needed for a specific role. Your company values should not become an excuse to hire people you “want to have a beer with” or who have a similar background as you. But someone who will demonstrate the core principles of your organization. You will lean on your values in the hardest of times and you can’t pick and choose when you want to live them.
Strong leaders will use your values as support when making tough decisions and help guide a team through change.
Finally, while your company values may evolve over time, as your company scales and grows, it is rare when they change dramatically. Maybe the wording or the meaning may evolve. But you should identify values that can grow with the organization and reflect not just where you are today but where you are heading.
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