Supporting Leaders in Creating Successful Value Driven Organizations
Successful, enduring organizations have an exceptional ability to manage continuity and change. Within the fabric of their culture is the unique ability to embrace and balance the larger systems of both business and people. These include the tangible values of profit, productivity, quality, customer satisfaction and the intangible values of innovation, employee commitment & fulfillment, risk-taking, community service and social/environmental responsibility. There is a considerable growing body of evidence suggesting that this balance is the common thread between sustainable, successful companies of all sizes.
At Value Mentors, we believe that competitive advantage and sustainable success comes from the ability to leverage the intangibles of human capital.
There is a close connection between the successful execution of your organizational strategy and the actual values of the people charged with its execution. When leaders ensure that their own values and the values of their employees are aligned with their strategy, they substantially increase the likelihood of achieving their mission, vision and multiple bottom lines of profitability, social responsibility and sustainability.
Our clients are organizations and leaders who understand that leveraging the interaction of strategy and organizational culture is the key to sustainable success. We help you develop an organization that promotes growing productivity, innovation, pro-active relationships with customers and strategic partners and which attracts and retains motivated, high performing employees who find meaning in their work.
We provide the most comprehensive and customizable cultural assessment tools and consulting services to support and maintain our clients' organizational cultures and multiple bottom-line growth.
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values."
Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama
"What keeps me awake at night are the intangibles. It's the intangibles that are the hardest thing for a competitor to imitate. If we ever do lose that we will have lost our most valuable competitive asset."
Herb Kelleher
Chairman & CEO
Southwest Airlines
"Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture
was just one among several important elements in any organization's
makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, and
financials. I came to see that culture isn't just one aspect of
the game,
it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing
more than the collective capacity of its people to create value."
Louis Gerstner
Former CEO, IBM