Excellence to Eminence

Reinforcing Our Values 

Your Role

Keep our values, and the behaviors that enable us to live our values in the front of everyone's minds. You can do this by incorporating messaging into your existing communications efforts.

Key Points

• Our values are what guide our behavior. The tools and mindsets covered in the unfreezing retreat help us behave in a way that's consistent with our values.
• Anyone can begin this culture transformation. Learning more about our transformation and reading more about it, such as on the Excellence to Eminence web site, puts everyone in a position to be a leader of this transformation.
• We all play a key role in our culture transformation, and we must all live according to our values.

Resources

• What Success Looks Like: Include these stories in your publications and on your web site, or use them as an example of the types of stories you can search for within your college/unit.
• Aligning behaviors: Review this document for help explaining what our values look like when they're put into action.
• Best practices: Developed by the Reinforcement & Recognition Culture Action Team, these best pracitces have additional ideas about how to reinforce our values.
• Culture Strategist: Your Culture Strategist is working on an overall plan, and can be supportive. Also, Culture Strategists received additional training and have access to additional resouces that may prove helpful.