Kirralea Walkerden
Leadership Coach, Culture Consultant, Facilitator
Defining, Living and Embedding Values that Drive Culture and Performance
Each month during 2025, we will create resources (mostly free) to help leaders tackle issues that impede performance, undermine workplace culture and mess with their heads!
- A product for clients who need more support.
- Podcast (free)
- Resource – blog, checklist, downloadable tool (free)
- Plenty in 20 – a punch 20 minute on-demand webinar (free)
- Newsletter with links to those resources (free)
April’s topic was Defining, Living and Embedding Organisational Values.
Explore this month’s podcast, resources, and events below — all designed to help you drive accountability in your workplace.
Stay Authentic!
Product of the Month:
Organisational Values
Too often, values are treated as a tick-the-box exercise – nice words with no real connection to daily behaviour, leadership, or performance. But when values are clearly defined and deeply embedded, they become the foundation for a high-performing culture.
Think about your team:
🤔 Are behaviours aligned with what you say you stand for?
🤔 Do leaders drive accountability and model the values under pressure?
🤔 Is team morale strong because people take responsibility for the vibe?
🤔 Are performance standards clear, consistent, and lived?
If your answer is “No”, you’re not alone.
Many organisations either haven’t defined their values at all, or they’ve defined them but don’t live them. That gap creates confusion, cynicism, and inconsistency.
👉🏽 Check out our Organisational Values Program Page – or click here to book a free consultation
Our Values Program helps you close the gap between words on a wall and values that truly drive behaviour. We gather meaningful feedback from across your organisation and distil it into a clear, authentic set of workplace values.
Then we help you embed those values into daily interactions, leadership behaviours, and team culture. Whether you’re starting fresh or need to reinvigorate existing values, we make the process fast, effective, and impactful.
Create values your people believe in - and behaviours that reflect them every day.
New Podcast Episode
10 Reasons Your Workplace Values Are BS
Does your organisation have values that should make a difference – but don’t? That people think are BS or tokenistic or lip service?
Do they look great on the poster but mean nothing in the way people behave, work, and treat each other?
If that’s your organisation, your missing a HUGE opportunity to create a workplace culture where both morale and performance are high.
Fortunately, this episode is packed with tips to make your values real.
Free Resource
The no BS Values check💡
The No-BS Organisational Values Check—a practical, honest look at what makes values actually work.
This downloadable infographic walks you through 10 key indicators that your values are genuinely shaping your culture (plus 2 bonus tips you can act on today).
Culture Action Tool💡
Working in teams can be great. Except when it isn’t. When petty differences, conflicts and differences in work ethic become a distraction.
The Rules of the Pool is a framework for managers to have a discussion with their teams and create agreed standards around work performance and interpersonal interactions.
Are Your Values Real?💡
Think your organisational values are doing their job? Most teams have values—but too often, they’re vague, outdated, or ignored.
This quick, no-fluff assessment reveals if your values shape real behaviour—or are just words on a wall.
Online Events
Plenty in 20 – April
Another episode of our punchy, on-demand webinar packed full of strategies and tips.
A great workplace culture delivers for your people, your clients, and your bottom line—but it starts with values that are lived, not just listed.
This month we share how to define and embed values that drive real accountability, engagement, and results.
Quick, practical, powerful.
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