Inspiring Workplaces
The Way Work Ought to Be! |
ISSUE 1,011 - Mar. 6, 2024 |
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Valuable Questions for a Values Conversation |
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I once worked with two clients at the same time who coincidentally had the exact same list of corporate values, yet one client had through-the-roof employee engagement scores, while the other, well, not so much.
The difference boils down to those cliche sayings, "actions speak louder than words" and "talk is cheap."
As comedian Jon Stewart once said, “If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies.”
Although we talk about values at the level of the workplace, how often do you have conversations with your boss, employees, or colleagues about what values matter to you and to them at an individual level? These conversations can offer valuable insights into what motivates your colleagues, how to support them better, and how to effectively communicate with them.
And with your collective workplace values, if you want them to really mean something, then make sure you and your team have a mutual understanding of what those suckers actually mean. Here are a few questions to guide a richer conversation around your values:
1. How will we know we are living this value out loud?
2. What are some critical behaviors that support this value?
3. What are some red flags that might indicate we aren't living up to this value?
4. Describe a time when we had to make a difficult decision to live up to this value?
5. Describe a time when we clearly strayed outside this value?
6. Who brought the cookies to the meeting? (*This is just a good question to ask in any meeting if you want to have a better conversation.)
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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March 7 is Name Tag Day and March 8 is Middle Name Pride Day, so why not have everyone on your team wearing name tags proudly displaying their middle names. (If you don't have a middle name, then this is your chance to make one up, like, "Danger", so you get to tell people Danger is your middle
name!)
You could also use this occasion to have everyone share their soap opera alter ego name using the formula: Your Middle Name + The Town You Were Born In. (Which makes me the adorably mysterious Douglas Penticton!)
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Quote of the Week |
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"You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh." Jay Leno
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Funny Business |
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Thank you to longtime reader Michelle Wilcox for passing this along! As seen on a sign at an Accent Inn in Burnaby, BC:
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Lobby Access
Do a dance and tap your room key
(Dancing is optional...but encouraged)
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