Once your core values are redefined, you can emphasize it by prioritizing them on your performance and organizational assesments. For you to do that, you need to determine the specific behaviors related with each core value. For an illustration, “flexibility and adaptability when it comes to client's needs” might be a core behavior related with customer service.

This leadership tool shows how to articulate a set of behaviors that reinforce the core values. Start by listing your core values and the related performance measures. Then discuss the related behaviors. Talk about which behaviors are most important in supporting the core values. Each core value should have at least 10-15 associated behaviors. ().

Once you're finish creating a list, share it with co-workers and ask for their feedback. After emphasizing the idea, you should have your own list. Make sure senior management has had a chance to review and refine the list before proceeding further. You can and must incorporate your core behaviors into your firm's performance and organizational assessments. An example of such an assessment is included below. Every six months this architectural firm surveys all its employees. After the findings are process, they ask workers to group themselves and brainstorm ways to improve. The outcome? an organization whose core values are well aligned with its behaviors.

Core Value: Design and Execution Score: Disagree Agree

1. For every assignment, we lay out our client's expectations.

2. We conform to our project management cycle.

3. Assignments are examined by a senior manager for “executability” and “creative response.â