Roll out organizational values

You may have been asked to:

• Roll out new organizational values to different regions, divisions, business units or departments.
• Develop a programme to translate the organizational values into behaviours and get individuals and teams to act in a way that supports the new values.
• Ensure employees practice the new behaviours over and over again, until these behaviours become habits.
• Link your organization's reward systems to the new values.
• Embed your new values into your organization's culture.

Before you begin to design a roadshow for your CEO, you need to develop a comprehensive strategy, plan and budget that will do more than just communicate your values. It will consider everything you need to do in your organization, to ensure your employees, leaders and managers behave consistently according to the organization's values.

This book provides you a step by step process you can use to plan your values rollout process and budget, and prepare a presentation to your executive team. Each step is summarised below, and is covered in detail in a chapter in this book.

Contents of this book.

• A step by step guide to rolling out organizational values.
• Clarify the objectives of your values rollout process.
• Identify the stakeholders of your values rollout process.
• Analyse how to get support from your stakeholders.
• Identify key success factors for the values rollout project.
• Identify what will need to be changed in your organization to achieve your success criteria.
• Identify the 9 steps needed to change values into behaviours.
• Clarify and negotiate roles.
• Develop a detailed plan or roadmap.
• Develop a financial budget.
• Prepare a presentation for your Executive team.

By following the steps in this book you will:

• Develop a comprehensive values rollout strategy, roadmap and budget.
• Prepare a presentation that will win the support of your exco, and help you to get the budget you need.
• Get the support you need from the stakeholders of your project.
• Ensure you have covered everything you need to do, to ensure that people in your organization want to, and are able to live the organizational values.

When you roll out organizational values in the way described in this book, you will not only transform your organization's culture. You will also unleash the energy and power in every employee, manager and leader.