Shared Values® Process

This process does not seek to change people. Instead, it creates an environment in which people contribute as you, and they, hoped when you hired them…before they got caught up in “the way it is around here.”

Shared Values creates a new “way it is around here,” in which engagement becomes the norm.

Think of an organization in which people just go through the motions, and another in which people are fully engaged in their work and the organization’s goals. Why the difference? One organization has intentionally established a context in which people voluntarily give the extra effort and ask the same of their co-workers. That context is “the way it is around there.”

The Shared Values process offers an intentional, documented roadmap to create a new organizational context.

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What happens when people (employees and customers) are at the center

This environment is built by declaring a universal set of People Values that become the standard by which all employees treat each other (and their customers). These People Values are combined with a set of Business Values.

The Business Values describe the behaviors essential to the specific business goals of the organization. They are created by each organization as they begin the process and are used to focus the workforce in the direction necessary for success. A key to sustaining a Shared Values environment is keeping these two separate but equal sets of values in balance.

Culture: people and business values, standards for behavior, and consensus building

We introduce the organization to the People Values and standards of behavior that have been found to encourage people’s capacity for extraordinary work, and to create customized Business Values to guide behaviors and actions to meet the business goals. A more collaborative consensus-building approach is adopted.

In this module, we collaborate to complete these steps:

1. Values & Attitudes Study
2. Certification of Internal Coaches
3. Management Workshop
4. Train the Trainer Workshop
5. Organization-Wide Meetings
6. Application Meetings
7. Consensus-Building Meetings for Departments

A values-based organization gives front-line employees the opportunity for control over their work environment and the success of the organization, and allows managers the freedom to function as a creative resource focused on the future, rather than “cop/dictator.”

Human resource programs
(people systems)

This module provides a structure under which to examine the People Systems currently in place (hiring and firing, orientation of new employees, motivation and reward of excellence, employee development). These systems will then be examined and one coordinated system will be created that reflects the new business and people values adopted by the organization. These new systems will then be taught by and to the employees and adopted for the benefit of all employees.

Organizational structure
(from the “outside in”)

The customer is placed as the source of the organization's structure, as opposed to operational convenience being the source. Organizational structures are examined and rearranged to create customer centered, multi-cross functional, self-managing process groups. These groups will have at their disposal a resource group of "experts" in the organization.

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There’s more to success in the marketplace than workplace culture. Read about interviewing and selection and workforce development.

Vitalwork is a distributor for The Lebow Company, Inc. Shared Values® Process is a registered trademark of The Lebow Company, Inc.