4 Key Ways to Benefit Your Organization Through Value-Based Education
“What if the solution to many of our problems could be solved with the examination of our values?”
It is no surprise that many organizations have suffered while attempting to navigate through the Coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, there has also been a tighter focus on organizations being more inclusive in representation, operation, and thought. Though extremely important, we must not diminish the difficulty associated with maintaining a business, let alone, one in transition. Prior to 2020, according to treasuryandrisk.com, businesses struggled with the inflation of medical costs, increasing employee benefits, and Cyber, computer, technology risks, and/or data breaches. With other key threats being centered around attracting and retaining talent, followed by, broad economic uncertainty. Even with the idea of seeking funding through the CARES Act, the preexisting threats of traditional business coupled with pandemic sanctions and togetherness initiatives has placed many organizations in a survivalist mindset.
According to Wall Street Journal, more than 200,000 businesses closed in the first year of the pandemic. Aside from that, there have been countless layoffs, restructures, mergers, and reductions in overall production. Though some outcomes were inevitable, one can’t help but wonder how many negative situations were avoidable? What if we could have written one less separation letter or saved one business from closing its doors permanently? Better yet, what if there was a way to reduce the strain of constantly feeling pressured to meet the fickle demands of our society? What if the solution to many of our problems could be solved with the examination of our values?
Decrease Employee Turnover
Save money and time on recruiting and onboarding, by providing resources and practices that engage and retain employees. When needed, shape new hire experiences to be more relatable and relevant to understanding their role within the organization’s mission and vision. Allow space for co-workers to shape the experience and impact through peer influence increasing the desire to remain with the organization.
Improve productivity
Proper value alignment will allow organizations to streamline their core values with their desired vision. Learning to optimize productivity through value-based education can increase workplace performance and reputation. It can impact your earning potential and career advancement. Furthermore, increasing their productivity by engaging people-centered practices that evolve strategies to identify best practices and implementations for continual efficiency.
Confidence in Training and Development
With the construction of our curriculum, nearly 20 years of andragogy experience and a decade of behavioral health and health care management experience were taken into account. In addition to bringing a much-needed curriculum to the community, be confident in knowing the level of expertise utilized in its development and design. We pride ourselves on providing life-changing, practical deliverable content that is relevant and relational.
Create a Sense of Belonging
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives should not be treated as an add-on but an embrace. When examining values, we embark on an opportunity to move past insincere surface-level exchanges. Culture, communication, and conflict are equally part of the diversity spectrum as race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion should be the vehicle that brings individuals together through the appreciation and awareness of various cultures, experiences, and perspectives. This is something we all have and can all share. Equally, there should be an openness to leverage strengths where there is an opportunity for growth while welcoming the uniqueness, individuality, and differences of others, even in opinions. Helping others to understand, there is no loss of self to understand and/or connect with others.
DEI should not be used to only discuss race relations or a mere history lesson on oppression but as a collaborative opportunity that is explorative, experiential, and relational. Though biases may be discussed, bias education alone is not DEI. There is so much to learn about people and their fluidity that one conversation or dump-all approach isn’t enough. True, DEI is a lifestyle and paradigmatic.
Love Is A Parable- an initiative and movement that later became an organization within itself. Love is A Parable is a DBA and subsidiary of Altar and Dwelling Place, Inc. We are a charitable and an educational 501c3 organization, who provides character, social, and leadership development to those who desire value-based education, reflective storytelling, and the promotion of personal acceptance through a reflective thinking approach and sacred-box theory.
