I took it out. So many of our managers felt it was insulting. But there's an enormous difference with the role they play, how valuable they are, whether they set the company back or forward. Whether a value statement is developed from top down or not on management style. You need to identify the values that reflect the collective personal values of individuals for the values to stick.
Employees have to feel their own values are reflected and embraced by the organization.
It's a leadership tool, but there should be that 10 percent that reflects what the troops think and say. Lovdal says it's useful to check what language system is being used. Sometimes language that plays well in the executive suite, does not play well with the workers, and often several levels are between them. Most companies generate a flurry of activity related to the statements for a year, then nothing happens, he says. Not only did they lack a role in generating it, they don't even get a chance to get together and dialogue about it.