Business Women - Maintaining Your Strengths and Values is Your Competitive Advantage
Posted on August 19, 2008
Having strong business ethics and values is a must especially in today\'s highly competitive business world. People know us for our values or lack thereof. However sometimes it is difficult to maintain your strengths and values as a women in business especially when others walk the paths of compromise and consensus.
To begin this process, you probably need to commit your business ethics and values to writing. A written values statement (within your strategic plan) is about those non-negotiable behaviors that you will consistently demonstrate each and every day. Your strengths in many cases are your gifts and those gifts could also be some of your values. I discovered this after writing my Purpose and Values statements years ago.
After several months of working and reworking, I crafted this values statement that is reviewed every year to ensure congruency.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS\' first commitment is to partner WITH our clients, and their needs by delivering exceptional value that continually strives to render a positive return on the clients\' investments of energy, money and time to our results driven solutions. Our second commitment is to all individuals by recognizing, promoting and respecting their needs. Our final commitment is that our values of acknowledgment, creativity, faith, gratitude, intelligence, innovation, intuition, learning, patience, quality work, reflection, respect, risk taking and thoughtfulness will be present in every interaction with our clients.
Since this values statement is hanging on a wall for me to see each and every day, I have the opportunity to continually read and re-read it. This daily action of reading this statement helps me to maintain my business ethics, personal strengths or what I think of as gifts.
Another behavior that helps me to reinforce my strengths is Positive Belief Statements or what some call these positive affirmation statements. Regardless of the name, the daily behavior of reading them keeps me focused and on target to achieving my goals without compromising my own values.
Given all the information that bombards us each and every day, reinforcement is necessary or we might temporarily lose sight of the path that we want to travel to secure the success that we deserve. Again, this may sound like repeating a broken record, a plan is a critical piece to staying on the right path.
If you want to maintain your strengths and values through your business ethics, then begin with a plan, read the plan, keep signs of the plan on your wall such as your Values Statements and make sure that your daily behaviors are congruent with that plan.
For your strengths and values are truly your competitive advantage leaving you standing tall and still in business while others are falling down around you.
A woman entrepreneur by the name of Robin Siemens shared her thoughts about values. I believe she truly understands how to maintain her strengths and values each and every day. Integrity is putting your values into action.
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