THE POWER OF HUMAN VALUES IS TO DISTRIBUTE GOODNESS AND WELLBEING
“World Values Day” makes you realize that the importance of this day dedicated to values around the world is enormous.
Whose Values?
Canadian psychoanalyst and management consultant, Elliot Jaques, was one of the first to recognise the importance of values in organisations. Since then many academics and practitioners have identified the importance of values, devised tools and models to calculate and describe them, and more recently, marketing professionals have considered articulation of brand values as essential. It’s increasingly recognised that brands are no longer owned and controlled by the organisations who have the copyright of the trademark of the brand, brands are defined by all stakeholders, those who feel they share a sense of the values the brand represents to them.
Values and living on purpose
For some people, adding value and having a purpose in life are essential and fundamental aims. An increasing amount of research indicates that people who have meaning and purpose in their lives are happier, feel more in control and get more out of everything they do. They also experience less stress and are less prone to prolonged bouts of depression and this clearly can have a positive impact on personal well-being and mental health.
98% of workers want to feel valued at work
Today is World Values Day and the theme for this year is wellbeing. So, it seems hugely appropriate to reveal that 98% of respondents to Mad World’s recent Multigenerational Workforce, Workplace Culture and Wellbeing Survey strongly agree that it’s very important for them to feel valued at work. 98% also strongly agree that it’s very important for them to have a sense of purpose at work.
Synergy Between Wellbeing & Values Is Key to a Successful Company Culture
We also know that creating great workplace cultures is a crucial step toward increasing employee engagement, a key indicator of strong business performance. Not only does higher engagement correlate with lower turnover, according to a 2013 Gallup report, “companies with engaged workforces have higher earnings per share (EPS).”
Values in Latvian Schools
I was invited by School 2030, which is an agency that has been commissioned by the Latvian Government to reform its school’s curriculum, to visit Latvia between the 1st and 4th October. The purpose of my visit was to talk about Values-based Education (VbE) and the impact it can have on schools’ culture, curriculum and life.
A Values Driven NHS
At the Nuffield Trust Summit in the early part of this decade, a gathering of national policy leaders in health and care that takes places each year, I was asked to speak on a panel about innovation. I was sat with a selection of other front line Chief Executives.
Driving Businesses from Values: VALUES CREATE VALUE (and higher profits)
Management often does not realize that values indeed create value for all stakeholders and essentially increase shareholder wealth. Raj Sisodia, David Wolfe and Jag Sheth, in their book “Firms of Endearment” demonstrate the power of values and caring for enduring business success.
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3 simple techniques for powering values-driven action and boosting your wellbeing
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