Re-evaluate Your Company’s Values

By R. Bruce Dalglish, CEO of Alliance Hospice

Striking the right balance to maintain a positive corporate culture is not always easy or obvious. Often, it requires the need to periodically carve out time to re-valuate your company’s values. If your values feel antiquated, or have not progressed in the same direction as your company’s product or services, then it’s time to update them.

Your employees and customers can only benefit from this type of update. When a consistent culture can be felt throughout all of the different aspects of a company, employees are typically more content and able to fulfil their tasks more readily and easily. At Alliance Hospice, we value equality, fairness, respect, honesty and trust. Patients can sense if there’s a breakdown of any of these values among staff. In our hospice care facilities, we strive to maintain all of these important values at all times, to ensure that our patients receive the best care possible.

A company’s culture and values spills over into all forms of communication, procedures and decision-making. Commitment to these values foments stability and consistency among staff. If your company’s values are outdated and no longer relevant to the services provided, updating them will get your corporate culture back on track.

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