Your Values: The back bone of your
society, organization, family and your life!
Over the last couple of years, We,
Anugraha Foundation – The foundation for living values, has been engaged in building
a holistic infrastructure on the human resource front to realize a definite leadership
aspiration in the global arena. Sreyas, our self – growth initiative,
Madhuvarshini, family value initiative, Excellence at workplace, our organizational
transformation initiative, are our salutation to the mission of “Living Values”
and are milestones of this purposeful journey. And very recently, a new and
significant initiative has been launched across the learning to transform horizon
wherein we have more sharply associated with people in learning, clarifying,
assimilating and living values.
Values define characters and
personality; Values guide, shape and influence our behavior, choices and
actions. The external world perceives and responds to us based on the way we go
about conducting our choices. The world of today is going through a crisis of
trust, where the credibility of leaders and the legitimacy of a family, organization
and society are subjected to questioning. This scrutiny from people around and
action groups, is becoming more stringent every day. In such an environment of
skepticism and cynicism our choices alone can inspire confidence.
People are becoming more
heterogeneous as they globalize. With every day pass, we meet a significant
number of new people with diverse backgrounds, and experience and most
importantly, with different expectations. While these developments are
exciting, we firmly believe that we need a stronger bond to hold us together to
realize the greater good - apart from the time-tested bonds of legacy,
heritage, loyalty, and best practices.
People contribute when they relate
and they relate, when they understand. People understand a person, family or an
organization through what they stand for and what is important to them, by
experiencing the culture that the values create and by using the systems and
processes that the values define. In large organizations, such shared
understanding cannot be created through the leadership of individuals alone, it
requires leadership of principles and conviction — these together constitute
what we call the "Values".
The articulation of a common set
of values, enables people to pull in a common direction, gives something they
can easily identify with, helps them to find common cause with each other and
creates a common sense of purpose. It also takes the assimilation of new
employees and cultures easier and faster in periods of rapid growth.
We confront many moments of truth
and one thing is very clear that we need a values framework as the foundation
for our future, which must have wide ownership, deeper understanding across,
larger application, stronger implementation and most critically, be backed by
the active personal sponsorship and role modeling of us all.
Great experiences are never built
on the quick sands of opportunism. We reiterate that, if living by our values
means, perhaps growing at a pace slower than we would otherwise have liked, so
be it. For us, leadership lies at the heart of knowing and performing what we
stand for.
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