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Eight Excellent Cultural Values to Reward In Your Organization
Every organization should periodically take a moment to analyze the alignment of their cultural values with the mission, vision and strategies of the organization. Start with the process of documenting your six to eight organizational values. Use the examples provided in this article, modifying them so they best describe your “desired” culture.

Culture with a little C; don’t let it undermine your business
Probably the most common definition of an organization's culture is "the way we do things around here." If you're an executive describing your culture, you're most likely referring to your mission, vision and values; and your core beliefs and what they represent.
Ready, Set, Go! Get Strategic on Values
Imagine this...your company spends dollars, time and energy to refine your mission, vision and values in a long needed retreat to reorient the team toward business success. Similar to the evangelist that comes to town to rev everyone up, the passion can often dissipate as the evangelist’s tent is disassembled and goes off to the next town. How can the passion become self-sustaining long after the retreat and into the future? The answer rests in getting and remaining strategic around the values you and your charges spend so much time identifying and marketing.

Top Five Responsibilities of Nonprofit Board Members
I have seen effective and ineffective boards of directors. Good boards of directors are clear about their roles and responsibilities versus those of the Executive Director, and they don't overstep their boundaries. This article highlights what I consider are the five most important responsibilities of board members.
What Is a Strategy Map & Why Do I Need One?
Review of Strategy Maps and how they enhance the strategic planning and execution process. Strategy Maps are the foundation for Balanced Scorecards.
Helpful Tips For Training New Staff Members
When you hire staff, your intention is to retain them. Providing them with the appropriate training will decrease their learning curve and increase their chance for success. This article provides some helpful tips for orienting and training new staff members.

Online Business Success: Attracting Ideal Advisory Board Members
Are you consistently getting free customized business advice from industry leaders? Read this article and learn strategies for attracting expert advice for your business.

7 Deadly Sins—Don't Kill Your Business with These Marketing Material Mistakes
When it comes to marketing your business it is important to make a good first, second, and lasting impression. Learn about 7 deadly sins that you need to avoid like the plague when creating your marketing materials.
How To Create an Employee Incentive Program
Interview with Allison Grace in the Charlotte Business Journal about incentive programs. By Bea Quirk, March 23, 2007
Some Common Misconceptions about Values
Although values are at the core of leadership, many people may not be completely faithful to the notion of leading according to their personal values. Oftentimes situational demands and inter-value conflicts can cause leaders to spend considerable amounts of time of doing non-values related activities, and doing so can result in diminishing levels of effectiveness.

Motivating People: Why it doesn't work
When a business has a clearly defined purpose it begins to act as a magnet, attracting the kind of people who will further the purpose; people who are like-minded. Not only will having a purpose attract the right people, but it will also act to retain them.

SMART Organizational Goals
This article is designed to provide you with a tried and true approach to organizational goal setting. The best goals are smart goals. SMART is a handy acronym for the five characteristics of well-designed goals. SMART goals make for smart organizations. In our experience, many supervisors and managers neglect to work with their employees to set goals together.
The Trouble with Most Marketing Messages
Your marketing message is everything you say or do to get people interested in your services. Unfortunately, most marketing messages are generic, boring, and irrelevant. This article briefly explains how to assess your marketing message and fix this problem.

Whats Your Mission
A useful mission statement is normally very brief, specific, memorable, and written in plain language. It is also understood, and actionable by everyone who needs to use it for decision-making purposes. A mission statement should require little or no explanation and its length is less important than its compelling, passionate and energizing power.

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Mission Vision Goals
Today there is a lot of discussion about vision, mission, and goals. In fact I see many companies investing loads of time, money and effort in coming up with their "mission statement.” Usually this is a few inspiring sentences that are placed on plaques to hang on the wall or printed on the back of business cards or put on the company web site. With few exceptions, this often amounts to a big waste of time!
Business Management: How Clear Is Your Vision?
Vision, mission and values are supposed to be the beacon by which organizations set their strategic direction but how often do they align with everyday priority setting? Does your team share the same definitions for your organization’s vision? If you operate at a departmental level, does your departmental team share your department’s vision? If the answer is, no, then it’s not going to be easy to achieve the results you expect. Here are some helpful suggestions.

Success and Your Personal Mission and Vision
Successful people define a clarity of purpose and direction for their lives and careers. Your clarity of purpose and direction should include both a personal mission (your purpose) and a personal vision (your direction). Your mission is your reason for living, why you are on this earth. It is unlikely to change over the long run. Your vision is a short or medium term goal that defines the direction you will take over the next three to five years. It will change are you grow and develop in your life and career. Your vision must be consistent with your mission.
How to Write Your Personal Mission/Vision Statement to Achieve Your Goals
Much like a business, we, as human beings have a purpose or mission in life. What if we spent as much time getting to know who we are and what we want for ourselves? A personal vision/mission statement is the framework for creating a powerful life. A Personal Vision/Mission can help propel you into a career change, finding a new job, or make your present job work better for you. The more connected your Personal Vision/Mission is to yourself, the better it can guide your career and your life.

Do We Really Need a Mission Statement?
Many organizations confuse the concept of a vision statement with a mission statement. They might say, "Our mission is to become the world leader in windows." Well, that is reallly a vision statement, not a mission statement. A vision statement is always about the future, while a mission statement is all about what we are trying to do today. It is very important to know that. This article will clarify a process to obtain a good mission statement.

Nonprofit Vision Statements, Core Values & Mission Statements
In the nonprofit field, reference is often made to an organization's core values, mission statement, and vision statement. I have found that there is some confusion regarding the difference between a mission and vision statement, and that some organizations have never identified their core values. This article will help you to understand these three items, and how important they are to your organization's overall operation, funding, and future.

What a Little Boy's Clarity of Purpose Teaches Us About Success
Successful people clarify their purpose and direction in life. Your purpose is your mission -- why you exist. Your direction is your vision -- where you are going in the short term. New Orleans Saints head coach, Shawn Payton's son has a simple purpose in life -- to spend as much fun time with his father as he can. That's why he worried that he wouldn't be able to have his post game catch with him last Sunday -- because the field was covered in confetti. What is your mission in life? What is your vision for the next five years? If your answer is, "I don't know," please take some time to answer these questions. These answers provide you with your clarity of purpose and direction -- a foundation on which you can build to create the successful life and career you want and deserve.
Company Vision, Mission, and Values, What’s the Difference?
I was asked recently by a friend to explain the difference between a vision statement, a mission statement, and a values statement. I must confess that I struggled to answer the question as many organizations seem to use these terms interchangeably. Then my parochial school education kicked in - I had heard a lot about people with a mission when at Catholic school - they called them “Missionaries”. So what was their mission? It could be described as to carry out the “Vision of Jesus of Nazareth” (he was certainly a visionary) and to do this in accordance with the values he espoused.

5 simple steps to achieving and maintaining Organizational Clarity
Do you have Organizational Clarity? No I don't mean do you have a plaque posted in your lobby that has your vision, mission and values printed on it. Or that you have your vision, mission and values posted on your website for all to see. I'm talking about true Organizational Clarity where everyone in the organization from the Cleaner to the CEO, from the Accountant to the Customer Service Representative is on the same page and talking the same language. It's rarer than you might think.

Three Core Questions That Define Organizational Culture
Over the years we've been involved in too many "vernacular engineering" debates as management teams argue about whether the statement they've been crafting is a vision, a mission, a statement of values and goals, or the like. Often these philosophical labeling debates are like trying to pick the flyspecks out of the pepper. Unless we're lexicographers and our company is in the dictionary business, we shouldn't worry about the precise definition of vision, mission, values, or whatever we may be calling the words we're using to define who we are and where we're trying to go.
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