This is a collection of blogs specifically relating to the topic of values. Please send your blogs to info@valuesalliance.net so they can be posted here. The suggested format is as follows:
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Graphic of Acceptance by Eben Greene from Seattle, Washington Full Team Ahead By Susan LePlae Miller Every person is an artist awaiting his or her muse. Awaiting his or her community. Awaiting his or her own sense of acceptance and belonging. For some, this feeling and sense of being never comes to fruition. The […]
How Lewes Football Club Runs on Community Values By Karen Dobres Every day players from Lewes FC Women make their way to the club’s all-weather pitch for training, where they run, bend, stretch, jump, kick and sweat. Except for Tuesday, their day off, when they relax a bit, drink coffee with friends in town, walk […]
The recognition that our organisations are living systems not machines By Fabienne Vailes To many of us who work in education, articles about our country being ‘in the grip of a mental health crisis’ won’t come as a surprise. The pandemic simply accentuated the patterns that were already there. A crisis is ‘a time of […]
Using a Values-based Approach to Education to Better Understand the Islamic Community Terence Lovat The Australian Values Education Program included a five-year longitudinal study focussed on values-based curriculum interventions in 312 schools across the country. Each intervention was guided by principles outlined in the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools. The principles focussed […]
How we have stuck with our Values to grow our community of brands. by Arjen Cooper-Rolfe Up until 2020 we had had great success in reconnecting with our Values. It is something we’d started more than 5 years ago and along the way some amazing things happened by getting colleagues to unite around a common […]
Photo by Sebastian Seck on Unsplash Cultivating Communities across the abyss By Ruth Steinholtz Level 6 of the Barrett Seven Levels of Consciousness model is all about Collaboration. For me it is about making a difference by working with others towards a common objective, to make the world a better place in some way. Level 6 in the […]
Could micro and small businesses really provide a big part of the solution to the challenges we face in our fractured world? By Jill Poet The theme for World Values Day 2022 is Values for the Community. This article looks at how that theme relates to micro and small businesses and, more precisely, considers why […]
Does big business support community values? Most people would say it’s a mixed picture. By Tom Rausch Corporations spend significant financial resources in advertising, marketing, and public relations to convince us that they only have our best interests in mind with their products and services. In the United States, for example, many of the largest […]
When business over-promises and under-delivers on their corporate values, they devalue society. By Theran Knighton-Fitt I want to tell you about company X. They lied about their company values. They over-promised and under-delivered on their brand. I won’t tell you what company it was. (I’m not in the business of trying to pull others down.) […]
The theme for this year’s World Values Day is Values for Community. Our values guide us to understand the good from the not so good, the right from the not so right. By Minal Kering They are the principles that we use to define and live our lives on. These chosen values help us make […]
