How to bring out the best in people
“We have increased our team from 34 to 65 in the last year, and applying our values mean we have been able to scale by
Ethics In Business
The values-driven company
The challenge now facing companies from local SMEs to multinationals is unprecedented. Their behaviours and very purpose is under scrutiny by staff, customers and stakeholders – who increasingly demand that businesses are authentic and actively living, rather than passively stating their values.Identifying, clarifying, implementing, instilling and adhering to foundation values will result in trust, resilience, sustainability, and integrity.In this series of whitepapers, we have teamed up with Decision Magazine to talk to owners and directors who have been on this journey.
- How do they make their values distinctive and genuine?
- Has it changed the way they interact with staff, customers, and suppliers?
- What difference has it made to achieving their goals?
Communicating values that resonate
“Continuity can sound stuffy to them but my definition of values is that they are about keeping on the right direction and not sitting back.
Why values can’t be left to chance
“The founder provides the energy and the culture, and how that is defined has an impact on how the values of the business develop. “But
What a business really stands for
“A formal segment of our induction process for new staff is about our values, because people then know what is expected of them. “It’s important
Values necessary to deliver ROI
“What values do if they are authentic is engage – people tune in and in a more profound way. “They don’t see themselves as a
Values crucial to reflect personality
“Values inevitably will have an aspirational dimension, because otherwise they can become a tick-box exercise. “It goes back to an engineering principle. We’re not talking
How CapEQ values can help you
CapEQ exists to provide honest advice to business owners, M&A directors and entrepreneurs. We only take on clients if we can genuinely add value,