From the course: Preventing Harassment in the Workplace

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Use the core values

Use the core values

From the course: Preventing Harassment in the Workplace

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Use the core values

- Three important elements to your culture are vision, mission, and core values. The vision statement is the organization's purpose, or where the organization is headed. The mission is how the organization will get where it's going. Then there are the core values, which describe how employees in the organization will behave in order to achieve their vision and mission. So core values are powerful drivers of behavior. If you don't have them, you need them. And if you have them but don't use them, it's time to start. Look, I've never seen a core value that made room for harassment. Assuming your core values don't either, start bringing them to life and using them to drive behavior, that's what they're meant to do. There's a million ways to go about this, but some of my favorite ideas include tasking managers with including values into their everyday, like staff meetings and performance conversations. They could also work…

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