Operationalize Your Values

Your organization’s cultural transformation requires that everyone understands and lives your values.

Our work helps cultivate partnership, accountability, and a framework for the actual behaviors you want to see across your organization, all of which help people commit to values that support your company’s culture.

Partnership matters to us because we know from experience that being in relationship with others is key to thriving people and organizations.

To create a plan and put your values into action, we help you prioritize areas that have the deepest impact on your culture and address other systemic changes. We often recommend starting with Human Resource processes, which are at the heart of supporting employees.

 

Building Supportive Systems & Processes

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Transforming Human Resources

 

  • Conducting a pay equity analysis

  • Forming a pay equity strategy

  • Creating equitable compensation structures and pay scales

  • Performing regular pay equity training and monitoring

  • Designing a values-aligned compensation philosophy

  • Designing new employee onboarding experiences for belonging

  • Advancement re-onboarding for new manager leadership skills

  • Creating performance evaluation processes

  • Training leaders in performance management 

  • How to plan for succession 

  • Creating human-centered HR policies

  • Employee wellness and self-care

 

*See how we help organizations find, select, and onboard new hires on our Talent Advisement page.

Values-Aligned Leadership Training

These trainings equip leaders across the organization to support the cultural change and values to which the organization has committed. Typically, trainings offer continuous support to new leaders in your organization.

 

  • Human-Centered Practices for Leaders 

  • Navigating organizational change

  • Managing across generational differences and leveraging age diversity

  • Understanding and leveraging your leadership identity and style

  • Connecting and aligning with completed Values Work

  • Making values-aligned decisions

  • Leading through uncertain and changing cultural landscapes

  • Managing interpersonal conflicts with Inner Agility

  • How to create equitable and inclusive working agreements

  • Challenging Harmful Beliefs and Reframing What It Means to Be a Leader

  • Leading with Vulnerability and Embracing Your Humanity 

  • Navigating leadership transitions and departures 

  • How to build a core team

  • How to establish and support DEI committees and taskforces

  • How to design and implement supportive meeting structures

  • How to facilitate regular and supportive team onboarding

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DEI Committees/Taskforces

 

  • Creating committee mission and goals, including articulating how participation takes care of members

  • Defining members’ roles and responsibilities

    • Building committee recruitment and succession plans

     

    • Developing supportive and nurturing meeting structures and schedules

     

    • Finalizing your Values and Statement

    • Building plans to socialize and operationalize your Values Statement

     

    • Collaborating with leaders and managers to develop strategies to operationalize values within programs and departments

     

    • Model the company values in how the committee works together

     

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