Team Values Exercise

Your team already knows what matters to them. This exercise helps them voice it, see it and realise they’re sitting next to someone who wants the same thing.

Team values usually come from the top: a branding exercise, or a poster from management. These come from your team.

You collect the words your team uses about how they want to work together, they rank them and you reveal what they share.

It’s their common ground.

Your team knows you’re asking for their thoughts. What they don’t know yet is what you’ll make from them. That part stays a surprise until the reveal.

Easy steps and the online tool helps you through it all:

1. Ask. Send your team three short questions. The email is ready to copy.

2. Rank. Gather their words and send them back to be ranked. That email is ready to copy too.

3. Generate. Turn the top words into a poster with the free Team Values Poster Generator.

4. Reveal. Present it to your team in a short, dedicated meeting.

It takes one to two weeks, mostly waiting for replies.

What you’ll receive...

• A link to the step-by-step page, with both emails ready to copy

• The Team Values Poster Generator, with four designs to print or save as PDFs

• Guidance on presenting it to your team

• A check-in from me a week in, to see how things are going.

Before you start, this is so important…

This isn’t for every team right now. If your team is exhausted, trust is low, or concerns they’ve raised haven’t been acted on, a values poster (and the time they spent answering your questions) could land as one more thing from management that doesn’t make sense. Words on a wall they want to throw darts at.

This works best when you’re already showing your team you’re listening, by including them in conversations about their work, their environment and what would help. If that isn’t happening yet, start there. This needs to bring your team together, not remind them that management haven’t got a clue. The exercise will still be here when you’re ready.

But if you’re ready… woohooo… let’s go.

Your team’s words stay private. Everything you type into the exercise stays in your own browser. Nothing is sent to me or stored anywhere else.

Want to talk it through first? Let me know in the form below and I’ll be in touch to set up a quick chat. There are also a few optional questions that will help me learn what you may be facing today. You won’t be added to a mailing list either (unless you're happy to). When I check in for feedback in a few weeks, I’ll ask if you’d like to hear more. Not now.

This exercise is one part of The Olive Tree Method, a practical framework for leaders who sense something isn’t quite right in their team, but aren’t sure where to begin. I’m rapt to share this part of it. In my experience, it can change how a team sees itself, and you.

I'll be in touch again soon. I can't wait to hear how you go! Congratulations on wanting more for everyone.

Josey

(Cheerleader for people-first leadership and better workdays)