PEOPLE WRITE STORIES; STORIES WRITE PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOUR
by Graham Boyd, Founder & CEO, Evolutesix Everything you say or do comes out of your meaning-making stories. All of your behaviours. These meaning-making stories are how you answer the questions “What does this mean, and therefore who should I do what...
Values, Voice and Community Wellbeing
A Brief Story of Manitoba Cultural Communities and their Community Values-in-Action Approach October 18, 2019 Prepared by Martin Itzkow, FRSA Executive Director, Coalition of Manitoba Cultural Communities for Families Inc. (CMCCF) For almost 11 years, a group of...
Finding your Values SuperHero, Why values are good for your wellbeing
by Alan Williams, Director, SERVICEBRAND GLOBAL Illustration by John Montgomery. Alan Williams and Steve Payne (2013) Chapter 2 Why?, MY 31 PRACTICES, release the power of your values for authentic happiness, LID Publishing, 2016 In the words of Judy Garland “Be a...
THE POWER OF HUMAN VALUES IS TO DISTRIBUTE GOODNESS AND WELLBEING
By Manjola Perja M. Sc., CEO & Founder ALVA – Albanian Values “World Values Day” makes you realize that the importance of this day dedicated to values around the world is enormous. Its value becomes even greater when involvement spreads to environments...
Whose Values?
By Kate Cooper Tammy Erikson speaking at the 2012 Global Drucker Forum, identified 12 things that she believed were no longer true, one of these was a fundamental misunderstanding that ALL OUR EMPLOYEES VALUE BASICALLY THE SAME THINGS This assumption, that not only...
Values and living on purpose
By Liggy Webb Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same but you leave them all over everything you do Elvis Presley For some people, adding value and having a purpose in life are essential and fundamental aims. An increasing amount of research indicates...
98% of workers want to feel valued at work
By Claire Farrow, Conference Director and Head of Content for Mad World 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...
Synergy Between Wellbeing & Values Is Key to a Successful Company Culture
By Charlotte Church, Marketing Manager, Virgin Pulse WHY IS CULTURE SO IMPORTANT? Believe it or not — it pays to keep your people happy. The reason workplace culture is so important becomes crystal clear when you look at the facts: Happy workers are 12% more...
Values in Latvian Schools
By Neil Hawkes 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...
A Values Driven NHS
Delivering the Long Term Plan for the NHS By Rob Webster, Chief Executive, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 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...
Driving Businesses from Values: VALUES CREATE VALUE (and higher profits)
By Gautam Mahajan, President of Customer Value Foundation Values and governance are often the motherhood part of corporate statements. Management often does not realize that values indeed create value for all stakeholders and essentially increase shareholder wealth....
A 20:20 vision for wellness in the workplace
By David Emanuel, Managing Director, i-FM Wellness is rapidly becoming a key value at many organisations. Facilities management should play a central supporting role – it just needs to rise to the challenge Facilities management is a critical business support...
3 simple techniques for powering values-driven action and boosting your wellbeing
By Liz Murphy, Director of Research and Collaboration at the Sophrology Academy Credit: Photo by Nathan Lemon on Unsplash Discover the power of the mind-body connection and why it’s integral to increasing values-driven action and wellbeing. You may like to read about...
Re-purposing corporate purpose
By Craig Smith You may not have heard about it, but maximising shareholder value is no longer the stated purpose of the corporate world. In August 2019, the ‘Business Roundtable’ (BR) changed its purpose statement to a much more balanced definition of corporate...
“Start with why” is bad advice
By Ben Sands In his seminal TED talk, author Simon Sinek offers a simple, compelling framework to explain how the best companies, and leaders, “think, act and communicate.” In a nutshell, Simon suggests that they “start with why” (i.e. they...
Piracy – black hearted or wholehearted?
By Jackie Le Fèvre Founder & Director, Magma Effect Work wasn’t working. At least work wasn’t working for a younger generation which wanted to have a say in how things were and who believed that they had a part to play not just a role to fulfil. So what can you do...
Seeds of wellbeing
By Dr Prabodh Mistry A simple mathematical model based on human values shows that small actions based on right thought and right knowledge lead to lasting happiness. Throughout my thirty-five-year career as an engineer and a consultant, my work has been guided by...
Values and Wellbeing – An Interview with Prof Tim Kasser
The theme of World Values Day 2019 is ‘Values and Wellbeing’, but why is the link between values and wellbeing so important? Ahead of World Values Day on 17th October, Alan Williams, Global Values Alliance and UK Values Alliance, speaks to Professor Tim Kasser to find...
How values are linked to mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
By Claire Farrow, Head of Content and Conference Director, Mad World Summit This year, World Values Day will be making the crucial link between values and wellbeing – for people and the planet. Mad World is dedicated to making a difference to mental health and...
Values and Wellbeing
By Judith Mills Values have been debated and discussed for centuries. Plato wrote about them and the Indian text The Bhagavad Gita written around 200 BC gives insight into the struggle to live a values-driven life. Those of us, past and present, who are interested in...
The dark side of vacation and how our values guide us back home
By Corina Roobeck Have you ever noticed that when you are on vacation a strange phenomenon can occur? Suddenly all the self-imposed rules go out the door. Permission to sleep in, permission to drink more, permission to eat whatever you like. Tick all those boxes. All...
Can the answer to managing our stress be found in our values?
By Lindsay West The World Health Organization calls stress the “health epidemic of the 21st century.” Stress is all around us; can you think of anyone who isn’t stressed at some point in their day? The issue is whether we can manage that stress to avoid a sustained...