Understanding and Promoting Organizational Values

Organizational culture determines what employees do and why. Culture influences how work gets done, impacts the success or failure of projects, determines who fits in and who does not, and affects the overall morale or atmosphere of an organization. Organizational values, behaviors, and attitudes characterize a business and guide its practices. Therefore, all employees must understand their organizations’ values and consistently demonstrate these values in the way they think and behave. Course Objectives: Participants who successfully complete this course will be able to:Explain how an organization’s values can drive organizational culture and employee performanceIdentify individual employee values and what motivates employee performanceOperationally define organizational values within team and personal vision and mission statementsAlign individual employee activities with organizational valuesHelp employees work with greater values-driven purposeHelp employees change behaviors to better demonstrate organizational valuesCourse Outline: The Connection Between Organizational Culture and ValuesThe Cultural Web – aligning your organization’s culture with strategic valuesCommunicating your organization’s strategy or pyramid of values and how they relate to employeesThe Competing Values Framework – Analyzing corporate cultureThe Connection Between Employee Values and Employee ActivitiesUnderstanding workers’ valuesUnderstanding what drives or motivates your people at workDefining Purpose from Organizational ValuesCreating a shared team vision and mission statementsCreating personal vision and mission statementsMeasuring Purpose and Organizational Values in ActionHow to be a good role model for promoting organizational valuesAligning individual employee objectives with organizational values – a special application of Management By ObjectivesSetting values-driven goals with employeesKey Performance Indicators –linking employee activities or organizational valuesThe Desire for Organizational Values-Driven BehaviorHelping employees find deeper personal meaning in their organization – working with purpose and valuesChanging people’s habits – encouraging and sustaining new values-driven behaviors Up to 30 students Virtual Classes will be a live, Instructor lead class in Zoom for Government, a virtual technical assistant VTA will be available to assist students with any technical issues, take roll, administer evaluations, and distribute certificates of completion. Course materials will be provided electronically.Onsite classes will be held at your location. The instructor will travel to you. Materials will be printed and shipped to your site. A sign-up sheet will be provided for student to enter their name (as they want it on their certificate) and the email address to send the certificate to. GSA travel costs will be added to the course fee. Contact us for a travel estimate.A minimum of 2 weeks lead time is needed for virtual classes, 3 weeks for onsite classes.Questions? Contact our training coordinator via email or phone at (202) 843.5447.