“LEADERSHIP IS AN ACTION, NOT A POSITION”

- DONALD MCGANNNON

Leaders and managers must be able to effectively communicate their vision, goals, and core values in a way that is understood across all levels. To communicate effectively leaders and managers must understand what are the barriers, how communication flows, and how their messaging can build effective relationships and promote inclusivity. Leaders and managers must not only communicate their core values they must "Do Their Core Values!"

“If you don't stick to your values when they are being tested, they're not values, they're hobbies.”

- Jon Stewart

"Trust, respect, integrity, loyalty, justice, and honesty are some identified elements which can be categorized by the term of core values (Dahlgaard-Park, 2012, p. 126)."

Core values – the entrance to human satisfaction and commitment.pdf

How does management exercise leadership in promoting and ensuring core values are maintained within an organization?

Why Core Values Matter (And How To Get Your Team Excited About Them)The actions of the best business leaders are almost always guided by a set of deliberate, well-thought-out values — they serve as a "North Star" of sorts. Naturally, the companies they build follow suit. From there, however, the real test is getting team members equally as excited about them.

Companies with similar core values

Who is responsible for ensuring that values are maintained within an organization?

Company Culture Is Everyone’s ResponsibilityA top-down approach doesn’t work anymore.

Why are core values important?

"Face to Face activities are effective and bring people closer together. It also shows that the company and management care about employee morale and team success."

- Scott Rosenthal, Team Blue Member

THE TRUST WALK

Our activities committee, led by Nicholas and Scott, introduces the Trust Walk. This group exercise focuses on trusting managers, colleagues, and sometimes even subordinates. This exercise is meant to lead us in ethical decision-making in an effort to maintain our commitment to the organization's core values.

TRUE OR FALSE

Our Virtual Team Building activity focuses on taking an interest in your fellow team members. To build a more effect team, lets focus on the things that matter to us most. The things that we as members find interesting and would want others to know about us.

Career analyst, Dan Pink, examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.

Team Blue

Mark Bailey, Delwin Lampkin, John Lyons, Aaron Nimmo, Mathieu Phanuef, Scott Rosenthal,

Vianca Rougeau, Nicholas Snipes, and Terrance Winfield

References

Yohn, D.L. (2021, February 9). Company Culture Is Everyone’s Responsibility. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/02/company-culture-is-everyones-responsibility

Dahlgaard-Park, S. (2012). Core values – the entrance to human satisfaction and commitment. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 23(2), 125–140. https://doi-org.brandman.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/14783363.2012.655067

Keiller, B. (Jan. 7, 2017). Doing core values [Video]. TED Talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWkN0k0MVE&t=17s

Pink, D. (2009, August 24). The puzzle of motivation [Video]. TED Talks. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare