{"id":19760,"date":"2021-09-02T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparkvisionnow.com\/?p=19760"},"modified":"2021-09-02T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:10:49","slug":"aligned-or-aspirational-workplace-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunneez.com\/sparkvision\/aligned-or-aspirational-workplace-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Aligned or Aspirational Workplace Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Are your company&#8217;s behaviors in or out of alignment with your company values?<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have a set of stated organizational values and your behaviors don\u2019t reflect them, you do not have an aligned culture. You have an aspirational culture of pie-in-the-sky thinking versus one based in the reality of day-to-day experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when your behaviors are in alignment with those company values\u2014boy, you create an incredible place of loyalty, commitment, engagement, pride, and enthusiasm, a place where people are going to stay, regardless of what generation they\u2019re a part of. It is something that feels like magic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Values make us feel alive as individuals and as members of a team. That\u2019s what a thriving, intentional workplace culture is about: connecting diverse individuals through a common intrinsic motivator. And core values are about as intrinsic as they get. They naturally satisfy you. How great is that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So much of that natural sense of personal satisfaction comes from being able to give of yourself to something that in return gives you pride in being able to make a difference. But there\u2019s a fine line that many of us can teeter between, a line that makes a whole world of difference: the divider between passion and stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon Sinek says, \u201cWorking hard for something we don\u2019t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.\u201d And that sure is the truth! When your work is aligned with your core values, passion is ignited. When it\u2019s not, stress is sure to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve worked hours on end without even realizing it because I was so excited by the work I was progressing with. I have just as many stories of working on things that took only a few hours but felt like they had taken lifetimes because I didn\u2019t care about the work, it wasn\u2019t in my passion zone, and it made me feel like I was wasting my energy. When I first started my business and was taking everything on myself, I often had outbursts of anger and regret, including twitchy eyes and sleepless nights that rippled their way into stress for my team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your people aren\u2019t stressed because they\u2019re doing too much\u2014they\u2019re stressed because they\u2019re doing too little of what aligns with their values. From the experiences that make us come alive to the people who make us cringe, our core values define what we stand for in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many of us take the time to discover what they are? And how many of us use them as a guide to direct our environments at work and within ourselves?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When your organization knows, owns, and lives its core values, it can be intentional about attracting, retaining, and growing its people through a shared sense of purpose, productivity, and passion. Your results will speak for themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when you don\u2019t know your core values, you will never have a clear compass or guardrails for your organizational culture. This can lead to disengagement, dissatisfaction, and disconnection, both within your team and externally, in terms of your reputation and customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we continue on this journey, you\u2019ll become crystal clear on the words that define your team\u2019s intrinsic motivators through core values. They\u2019ll serve as your compass for success and your guardrails against failure. By recognizing the behaviors that are in or out of alignment with your core values, you\u2019ll begin to uncover what\u2019s working, things that can be lifted up to create more impact, and what\u2019s taking away from your company culture and needs to stop or morph accordingly. In that process you\u2019ll identify your culture killers and culture keepers, starting by looking in the mirror. What may feel stressful at first will eventually become an act of grace, accountability, and positive energy to fuel your team and organization toward their greatest potential for achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to continue the journey? This is an excerpt from MaryBeth\u2019s new book <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sparkvisionnow.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Permission to Be Human: The Conscious Leaders Guide to Creating a Values-Driven Culture<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about this <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sparkvisionnow.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company culture book<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are your company&#8217;s behaviors in or out of alignment with your company values? If you have a set of stated organizational values and your behaviors don\u2019t reflect them, you do not have an aligned culture. You have an aspirational culture of pie-in-the-sky thinking versus one based in the reality of day-to-day experience. 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