About Values Connection

At Values Connection, we are Values specialists - working with individuals and organisations to understand the impact of values on their leadership, culture, profitability and performance, and aligning personal and organisational values to achieve extraordinary results.

We are all about connecting people and organisations to their values, making them conscious, shared and lived.

The turbulence of global financial markets, exponential advances in technology, and world political instability all contribute to chaos and cannot be managed using yesterday’s management models. We cannot rely on “what we’ve always done” to take us into the future. Effective leadership of a 21st century organisation, managing in a complex and constantly changing environment, requires values as a framework.

Values are the glue that bonds an organisation when confronted with chaos and the need for change.
Values are the “strange attractors” which guide a system’s (or organisation’s) behaviours, and distinguish chaos from randomness.

Values are the energisers for each of us as we get up each day and “do what is to be done”… with joy, enthusiasm and meaning.

We are founding members of The Minessence Foundation, an international organisation of values consultants who work collaboratively to continually pioneer the practical application of values technology around the world.

We trust and know from real-life experience that executives long to reflect upon what give their lives meaning and purpose. They want to be free to be themselves in ways that they can trust their own wisdom to confidently draw on their knowledge and feelings. This is supported by research gathered from over ten thousand participants, which shows that 73% of leaders surveyed have a high priority on the value “Being Self”. 87% value “Sharing / Listening / Trust”.  (Source: Values Education Network, Queensland Australia)

Acknowledging the longing for this, and creating environments where these values can be expressed is essential to the longevity and success of every organization. To retain talented leaders, we need to move from rigid, inflexible hierarchies to more open and dynamic organizations, built upon trust and respect for each other’s innate capacity and capabilities.

Change is only sustainable if executives, managers and employees make decisions consciously around their shared values.