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Company Values: the make or break of a successful business
Don’t overlook how values will help build a great company and company culture
Last summer I held a ‘Business Values’ workshop in my garden. I’m lucky I live in a rural area, and have 1/4 acre in my my back garden which meant during the brief lifting of COVID restrictions I could meet and brainstorm with one of my clients over creating values for their company.
It was a lovely sunny day (thankfully — British summers being notoriously wet!). I baked cookies, served tea, and had set up some tables and whiteboards suitable spaced out. Mean while two of my cats acquainted themselves with everyone (the third decided to retreat upstairs for some quiet!), whilst my puppy ran around trying to trip up everyone!
We’d held off until we could do this in person, because we wanted the whole leadship team to be available, and wanted to be able to focus exclusively on the purpose (barring distractions from the animals!): creating the company values.
When you’re building a business maybe you don’t automatically think about values. If you’re a solopreneur, or a start as…
