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    How do I get staff interested in our vision and values?

    As a business leader, it’s likely you’ve spent a significant amount of time working on the visions and values for your business – they are at the very core of your company. Getting your staff interested and on board with those visions and values is essential if everyone is to be united around a company’s goal – but doing this requires a strategic approach.

    Ways to help you deal with it:

    Action plan

    Creating a set of company values

    Effort : Medium
    Impact : Medium
    Company values can act as a motivator for staff and give them a strong sense of purpose. Follow these five steps to create a set of company values.

    ACTION PLANS are a structured list of steps designed to help you approach tackling a particular business challenge.

    • We explain why each step is important
    • Customise by setting your own completion dates and assign tasks
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available

    Action plan

    Embed your vision and values in your culture

    Effort : High
    Impact : High
    Once you’ve set your company values, how do you embed them within the culture and keep them front and centre of your business?

    Action plan

    Creating a culture of effective communication

    Effort : Medium
    Impact : High
    Follow this action plan to establish clear lines of communication in the workplace and encourage better collaboration across your team.

    Guide

    An introduction to getting staff interested in your vision and values

    Explore some of the factors that influence whether staff engage with your vision and values, plus access quick wins for improvements.

    GUIDES break a challenge down, providing important context and real-world experiences.

    • Based on SME experiences, not corporate jargon
    • Filled with real-world stories
    • Achievable steps every business can take

    Other support that's available

    Aligning staff with your vision

    Aligning staff with your vision

    Creating a vision is the easy part – now you have to get your colleagues on board. These tips and strategies from Talking Talent can help you get everyone aligned.

    Ensuring your vision is valued

    Ensuring your vision is valued

    Communicating your vision effectively is vital if you want to ensure the core beliefs of your business are valued. Forbes has outlined eight ways of doing this.

    How other businesses have tackled something similar

    Gemma Screen, Extract Coffee

    Real business story

    How to work with staff to create and codify company values

    Find out how defining and codifying the company's unique culture helped retain staff and drive business forward at Extract Coffee..
    Naomi, Reboot Online

    Real business story

    Resolving internal communications problems brings business benefits

    Change can be the catalyst that challenges the existing ways companies communicate internally. Reboot Online made sure junior team members had the support they needed when working remotely..
    Emma Heathcote-James, Little Soap Company

    Real business story

    How one accidental business leader learnt to successfully guide her company

    When Little Soap Company became a high street brand, CEO Emma Heathcote-Jones became an accidental business leader and had to learn to lead fast..

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