UpSkill Bites offer an opportunity for you to develop your soft skills one bite at a time. Today’s UpSkill Bite: Values Alignment is Best Practice. In this series we’ve been discussing establishing your Values Positioning System or VPS using the acronym VALUES. We’ve covered the “V” for vision the “A” for assigning your values and we’re now looking at the “L” for linking personal to organizational values. An organization is the sum of its people, and so it is essential for individuals within an organization to understand their own values as well as the organization’s values. Understand why it matters and how it works to form and inform what we as individuals and as organizations can become and what we are today. Research conducted by Pearson suggests that when individuals (employees) understand and share their organizational values three things are likely: increased engagement increased productivity and reduced turnover. We’re in a rapidly shifting values environment and that’s a result of massive events like COVID-19. These include events and human experiences such as those that precipitated the social and economic calls for greater justice. In addition to the democratization of social media, providing the exposure and scrutiny on all of us.