Is values based leadership the solution to the moral bankruptcy faced by many organisations and leaders? If you are looking for a shortcut or quick fix, you will be disappointed. We have practical experience in the application of values based leadership and want to share a successful process with you.
Values-based leadership is a leadership approach and philosophy growing from shared beliefs and assumptions of the leader and the team. The leader and the team always operates for the greater good of all.
If you apply values based leadership successfully, the benefits will outweigh the effort by far.
The leadership environment
To understand the challenge properly you need more information about the “playground”
Leaders face extreme challenges in leading teams and organisations
Most leaders experience the environment as very tough and hope to find proven solutions. Read further to see how we can help you.
WE COACH YOU TO DEVELOP VALUES BASED LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
- Leadership: Inspiring and energizing self and others to achieve personal and organisational success.
- Social, economic & environmental responsibility: Consciously making sustainable choices that foster a healthy social, economic, and environmental future.
- Honesty, respect openness: Acting with openness, honesty, and respect in all that we do.
- Quality: Striving for the highest standards in self and the organisation.
- Coaching and feedback: Providing support, guidance, and feedback to help others meet challenging objectives and performance goals.
- Developing self and others: Finding ways to keep skills current and maintain up-to-date knowledge of specific and broad-range topics; providing developmental opportunities to others.
- Communication: exchanging information and ideas with others to promote effective discussion and decision-making; promoting two-way communication.
- Future thinking/ Innovation (Problem Solving & Creativity): Generating and implementing creative solutions to achieve organisational strategic goals; anticipating, conceptualizing and /or communicating future events trends and opportunities; supporting innovativeness and exploration.
- Relationship management: Working to build effective relationships with internal and external contacts to ensure present and future success.
- Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to build supporting working relationships where people actively share information, support diversity, rely on each other’s expertise and deliver on commitments; supporting diversity as a means to achieve effective teamwork.
Once you have applied values based leadership you can look forward to the following benefits
Values-driven organisations generate higher profits, are more customer-focused and more productive. One of our clients increased their operating profit from 6% to 12% over a period of 2 years. They improved profitability by 14% in the same period.
Process to create a high performance culture
The first step in creating a high-performance culture is to measure the current culture you've created. Most cultures are created unconsciously. If you're able to measure your culture, you can consciously create the culture you want.
Step 2 Get management buy-in on the areas you want to work on to create a high performing organisation. Values are the foundation of any organisational culture. By establishing the areas, we want to work on, we can really address the values deficits.
Step 3: Conduct a values analysis of the top management team.
Step 4: Identify the five values that the top management team has in common.
Step 5: Identify the five most important values that will address the identified gaps in the culture.
Step 6: Define five behavioural anchors for each identified value. Let's look at an example
a. Our people are an essential part of our organisation and without them we cannot live our values. We demonstrate this by how we treat each other with respect. (Behavioural anchor).
Step 7: Conduct an organizational wide values clarification with employees and give them the opportunity to express themselves. If changes are needed, make them.
Step 8: Introduce values internalisation by giving employees and managers the opportunity to give each other daily feedback on how well the adopted company values are being adhered to.
Step 9: Teach senior management to coach the rest of the organisation in adopting the values.
Step 10: Conduct a cultural audit survey to determine if the original cultural gaps have been closed. This is the same survey we used at the beginning to make sure we're measuring the same cultural dimensions.
Take action now
A lack of commitment to clearly defined values is like a cancer eating your organisation from the inside. The quicker you take action the better the results will be.
You can imagine the success you'll achieve after mastering the values-based leadership process.
We take clients through a coaching process, where we provide the expertise and materials.
Call Johann (+27 83257799) or Piet (+27 834172907) today with no obligation to find out how to start your journey on values based leadership.
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