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If someone asked you today what your company's values are, could you answer? If you do know what they are - whether they're a list of words, or a select set of phrases - do you agree with them, and can you say you adhere to them?
The thing with values is, they can often be quite 'cringe', or actually not a 'value' at all. And that's a problem for HR.
A recent job advert went viral after saying that the company didn't want anyone 'woke' to apply - aside from that, there was another part to the advert which caught my eye: saying that applicants had to adhere to the company's values which included the belief that “near enough is not good enough” and employees should “go hard or go home.”
In another example, an interviewee shared with us their company values were 'Ready, Fire, Aim' - yes, you read that right. Alys Martin, head of people at What3Words, said: "Yes, that's the right way around - it's about just cracking on and getting stuff done and refining later! Hand in hand with that is making mistakes. It’s about the support we build for each other, that real sense of community, where it doesn’t matter if we make mistakes, we try again, we improve, we do something better."
