Are you an early-stage company? Are you in the process of creating a new division or product? Now is an excellent time to create some company values for your business. It’s actually quite simple!
You know the importance of creating company values, but you’ve got an early-stage company, so how do you create values when everything is almost duct-taped together, and you’re still trying to find your wings? Since you’re so new, you don’t have anybody to really bounce your values off of and see what resonates with the team. What do you do?
Take a step back and think about the company you’re building. Think about the types of people you worked for, and with, in the past. What values did you like from them? What did you enjoy the most? Make a list of your dream team and then build it out from there.
Your next step is to then make a list of people you would never want to have in your company. Think bad bosses, bad people, really map out all the “bad apples” you’ve worked alongside. They could even be friends, who you adore, but know it would make the company go belly up. Once you have your list of both the good and the bad, you then want to distill their characteristics down to four to six core company values.
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