Elementum

Values and Norms Definition.

Name the few values the organization will genuinely live by and translate each into concrete behavior, because values without behaviors are decoration, and few and lived beats many and ignored.

Use it after the culture read, to choose the culture deliberately.

Part A. Choose the few true values

A short list, three to five, drawn from your mission and your best moments, not borrowed from another organization’s website

The test for each: is this actually true of us at our best, and are we willing to hold it even when it costs something?

Part B. Translate each into lived behavior

For each value, what it looks like in daily behavior

What it rules out, the behavior it will not tolerate

How it shows up in how you hire, onboard, decide, and treat each other

Part C. The practices that keep it alive

How the norms get carried: into hiring and onboarding, into how leaders model them, into how you handle a breach of them

The rule: a value with no behavior attached is a poster. Few, true, and lived, carried into how the organization actually works, or do not bother naming it, because unlived values teach people the words here are for show.

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