The Advantage of Values for Your Team

A recurring theme in our workshops is the increasing importance participants give to values in their teams and organisations.

In Freedom to Learn, Carl Rogers defines them thus: “(Values are) the tendency of any living beings to show preference, in their actions, for one kind of object or objective rather than another”.

Thus, teams with clearly communicated and lived values will tend to be more cohesive and more productive. As pressures on leaders increases, the impact of values’ discrepancies increases (at a guess) at least quadratically.