Facilitating with a team this week brought an insight about values to light. I believe in vision, mission and values statements ( if you follow me or read my blog you probably know that, lol). I see them as ways in be authentic, consistent and influential.
While working on building “team ground rules”participants were writing values instead. Things like: “respect on another” or “have integrity”.
They thought they were writing rules of engagement. But these are values. So I coached the group.
“A value (respect) guides our behavior. A rule is behavior that guides that value. So if respect is the value, how do we want the team to behave to show respect?”
They listen to each other. Everyone gets a turn. They reach consensus.
Yes! Now we have turned values into ground rules (rules of engagement) that we can reinforce and follow up with. That guides team success.
