“Find the right person for your company, and put them into the right role” – Great advice – hopefully, you’ve come across it before.
Unsurprisingly, many companies have problems putting that into practice.
There are a few methods we’ll talk about to find the right people and put them in the right roles – this method today is about your company values.
Company values – what matters to your company?
Maybe you’ve heard about defining company values, maybe you have a (mostly forgotten) Mission Statement. Very few companies actually implement these correctly.
Your company values should be:
- Easy to understand
- Honest
- Respected
- Genuinely believed in by your team
How to Define your Company Values
- Get your leadership team together for an afternoon.
- Ask each leader to independently list team members who best reflect what your company stands for.
- For each of those team members, have leaders write down the personality traits that make them such a good fit.
- Put all the traits on a board.
- Keep – Prioritise the most meaningful
- Kill -Discard anything vague or unimpactful
- Combine – Group similar ones
- Keep refining the list until you’ve got your top 3–5 traits.
These will be your true company values – the ones your team likely already lives by.