Organizational values are often prominently displayed but inconsistently translated into day-to-day employee behavior. Operationalize your team's mission, values, and community agreements to shape organizational culture, team interactions, and performance.
Team building enhances collaboration and shared accountability, fosters a culture of belonging , and creates a supportive environment, leading to stronger teams, more consistent organizational practices, and meaningful culture change. Working collaboratively, we analyze what's working and what isn't and co-create your team's values-aligned mission, community agreements, and associated behaviors to transform outcomes/results and productivity.
Module 1: Introduction
30-minute team meeting to identify the relationship between your organization’s mission, values, and observable employee behaviors.
Module 2: Mission
60-90-minute team meeting to develop and align your team's mission to your company's mission.
Module 3: Values
60-90-minute team meeting to operationalize at least 3 team values that contribute to desired organizational culture.
Module 4: Community Agreements
60-90-minute team meeting to develop your corresponding community agreements and behaviors that produce exponential change and growth.
Module 5: Strategy Week
60-minute team meeting to develop strategies for integrating values-aligned behaviors into feedback, goal setting, check-ins, and performance evaluations to promote consistency and generalization across your organization.
Module 6: Implementation Week
This is the week where the rubber meets the road. It's time to implement your strategies to put your mission, values, and community agreements into action, creating exponential growth and a movement toward sustainable change.
Doctoral Level Behavioral Scientist | Organizational Change Coach | TEDx Speaker |
Freedom Fulfiller
I used to think strong leadership meant carrying everything; the vision, decisions, communication, accountability, and company culture. If something mattered, I made sure it happened.
There's a point where being the person who holds everything together starts holding the organization back. The transformation happens when the vision stops living with the leader and starts living with the team.
When values stop being words and become apparent in the behaviors team members take. When collaboration is specific and accountability is the team practice, not something the leader has to enforce. When belonging shows up in how people communicate and make decisions. When compassion doesn't disappear because a hard conversation needs to happen.
That's the work I’ve spent years doing with teams. Taking what an organization says it values and transforming it into how people actually work.
The goal is building a team that understands it and brings it to life. That's what Put Your Values Where Your Mouth Is: Turning Organizational Values Into Action is really about. Creating a culture where the team and every client/customer knows what those values look like in action.
Every idea needs approval.
The leader is involved in every decision and the team has learned to depend on the leader for direction.
Some call it a work ethic problem. Some call it micromanagement.
Different generations. Different expectations. Same team. Nobody agrees.
Your team was hired for their creativity.
For teams ready to tap into the ideas, critical thinking, and problem solving already sitting around the table.
You’re looking for a quick team-building activity that creates connection without changing how your team actually works.
You want people to live your organization’s values without taking the time to define what those values look like in everyday behavior.
You expect accountability, collaboration, and ownership from your team but aren’t willing to examine what your leadership, communication, and systems might be reinforcing instead.
You believe culture is HR’s responsibility or something that will just happen if you hire the right people.
You want your team to change, but you’re not ready to change the expectations, conversations, and conditions shaping their behavior.
Your team can’t consistently demonstrate values that only exist as words. If you want more collaboration, accountability, trust, and ownership, people need to know what those things actually look like, how to practice them, and how they show up in the way your organization operates.
That’s where the transformation begins. Where expectations become shared agreements, good intentions become observable behaviors, and culture becomes something your whole team helps create.
You may have people on your team who think no one has a work ethic anymore, while others feel like they are constantly being micromanaged. Or you might have a leader who's involved in every decision, idea, problem, and everyone has slowly learned that it is easier to just wait for approval. Or maybe things are going well. Really well. You have smart people with ideas, expertise, and a whole lot to offer.
But you're not quite sure how to create the kind of culture that lets all that potential show up. Different teams. Different challenges.
Values are easy to name: Collaboration. Accountability. Respect. Belonging. Compassion. The hard work is turning those words into behaviors people can actually see, practice, reinforce, and use when things get hard.
That means looking at how your team communicates. How decisions get made. What happens when someone disagrees. How feedback is given. What gets reinforced. What gets ignored. And whether the way your organization actually operates matches what you say matters.
That's the transformation. Moving to values people experience, shared expectations, contributions, and ownership.
To empowered leadership and connection,