Do your organisation’s values truly reflect who you are?

Your values should provide a clear sense of what your organisation stands for and how you want people to work together.

Create Your Organisation Values could be right for you if you want to create new values or refresh values that no longer reflect your organisation:

• Define what matters most to your organisation
• Create a shared sense of identity and purpose
• Involve your people in shaping values they can connect with
• Be clearer about the behaviours and ways of working you want to encourage
• Give leaders and employees a common foundation for how you work together
• Create values that feel meaningful and specific to your organisation

Your values should be more than words on a wall. They should mean something to the people who work there.

What does creating your organisation values involve?

We work with you to understand your organisation, what matters to you and the culture you want to create.

Together, we explore areas such as:

We use these insights to identify the themes that matter most and turn them into a clear set of organisational values with meaningful definitions.

The result is a set of values that reflects your organisation – not a collection of generic words that could belong to anyone.

What will you receive?

You’ll receive a clearly defined set of organisational values that reflects who you are, what matters to you and how you want people to work together.

Your values will include:

• Your agreed organisational values – a focused set of values that is meaningful and distinctive to your organisation
• Clear definitions – explaining what each value means in the context of your organisation
• Supporting behaviours – showing what each value looks like in practice
• The story behind your values – capturing the thinking and themes that shaped them

Values your people can understand and connect with
You’ll have a clear set of values that gives your organisation a shared language and foundation for how you want to work together.
This creates the starting point for bringing those values to life across your organisation.

How does it work?

We work with you throughout the process so your values are shaped by your organisation and the people within it.

1. We understand your organisation
   We start by understanding your organisation, its purpose, priorities, culture and what you want your values to achieve.
   
2. We gather insight
   We engage with agreed stakeholders to understand what matters to your people, what makes your organisation distinctive and the culture you want to create.
   
3. We explore the themes together
   We facilitate focused discussions to explore the strongest themes and identify what should sit at the heart of your organisational values.
   
4. We develop your values
   PeopleCore brings the insights together and develops a draft set of values, including clear definitions and supporting behaviours.
   
5. We test and refine them with you
   We test the draft values and supporting behaviours with agreed stakeholders, using their feedback to refine them and make sure they feel meaningful, distinctive and right for your organisation.
   
6. We finalise your Organisation Values Framework
   We bring everything together into your final Organisation Values Framework and present the completed values, definitions and supporting behaviours to your agreed stakeholder group.

How long does it take?
Most Create Your Organisation Values engagements take around 3–6 weeks. Your timeframe will depend on the complexity of your organisation, the level of stakeholder involvement, stakeholder availability and the scope agreed with you at the outset.

Let’s scope your organisation values

Every organisation is different, so we’ll start with a complimentary conversation to understand what you need and the scope of the work.

During your scoping call, we’ll discuss:

• Your organisation and what is driving the need to create or refresh your values
• What you want your values to achieve
• Your current culture and aspirations for the future
• Who you want to involve in creating the values
• The level of stakeholder engagement needed
• What you already have in place
• Your preferred timeframe

Following the conversation, where there is enough information, we’ll provide a clear proposal setting out the recommended approach, scope, timeframe and cost. Where the requirement is more complex, we’ll confirm any further scoping needed before preparing your proposal.

From £6,750 + VAT

Good to know

The work focuses on creating or refreshing your organisational values. The level of employee and stakeholder involvement will be agreed with you as part of the scope.

The work includes developing your values, their definitions and supporting behaviours. It does not include the wider launch, communications or ongoing embedding of the values across your organisation unless this is separately agreed.

Creating your values is the starting point. How they are introduced, reinforced and reflected in everyday behaviours, leadership and people practices will determine how meaningful they become.

What happens next is up to you. You can bring the values to life with your own team or ask PeopleCore to support you through our Bring Your Values to Life service. There is no obligation to purchase further support.