Workplace Culture

Create a place employees love: hold nothing sacred

The Vitalwork vision of a truly collaborative work environment is one in which employees are both fully productive and totally satisfied.

Creating a work environment in which employees can truly thrive requires a shift away from control-based thinking (assume the worst about people and create rules and systems to keep people in line) to freedom-based thinking (trust people and give them the tools and information necessary to make their own best decisions for the customer and the company).

A freedom-based workplace enables frontline workers to deliver a terrific customer experience during every interaction. This creates an organization that is truly adaptable, fluid, able to “turn on a dime.”

Shared Values Process

The Shared Values Process escalates your level of employee engagement by creating a profound commitment to those employees. It transforms your organization into one that recognizes, develops and celebrates the “home truth” values that allow people to realize their full talent and potential.

We help you identify your core “people values,” your core “business values,” and most importantly, the alignment and balance between them.

Putting those workplace values into practice will require questioning everything about “how it’s done around here.” The shifts, and the results, can be radical.

The emotional connection and commitment that people feel to an organization that values them as highly as it values the bottom line is a phenomenal driver of performance.

When employees recognize the promise the company is willing to make through workplace shared values, it engenders a trust and loyalty that spark unprecedented motivation and results.

Read more about Vitalwork’s Shared Values Process.

Shift the way your company works for its people

  • Establish people and business values, standards for behavior, and a way to address behaviors that are inconsistent with those values and standards
  • Learn the dynamics of a truly collaborative work environment—for both employees and managers
  • Develop new systems for hiring, orientation, compensation, etc. that reflect the adopted values and behaviors
  • Create a customer-focused organizational structure, consistent with the company’s values

Organizational behavior impacts employee behavior. A company engaged in its employees will foster engaged employees. Contact us today.

Creating an effective workplace culture is only part of the solution. You also need to hire the right people and develop their capacity to be extraordinary. Read about interviewing and selection and workforce development.

Read about the shared values under which Vitalwork operates, and the people who bring them to life.

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


WorkplaceCulture

Inspire greatness

Shared Values is built on the Vitalwork belief that all people have a fundamental desire to do good work and be part of a winning team.

When people don’t live up to their talent or fulfill the organization’s expectations, the cause can generally be traced to some element of their workplace, or the context in which they are working, rather than some flaw in their personality.

There are places that inspire greatness. Make your company one of those places. Contact us.

“I’ve now got a team that will work through anything, help each other out and will weather any storm. I didn't ‘build’ that team. Shared Values did.“

— Mark Beightol, Director of Sales and Marketing, Chautauqua & Erie Telephone