Developing Core Values: Building Communities of Commitment

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Developing Core ValuesBuilding Communities of
Commitment

• Compiled by Kevin Tyler

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Developing Core ValuesBuilding Communities of
CommitmentThis presentation was compiled from
the book Values-Driven Leadership Discovering
and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry by
Aubrey Malphurs Baker Books 2 edition (August
1, 2004)Used with permission from the author
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The Importance of Core Values

• Determine Ministry Distinctives
• Dictate Personal Involvement
• Communicate What Is Important
• Embrace Positive Change
• Influence Behavior

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The Importance of Core Values

• Determine Ministry Distinctives
• Dictate Personal Involvement
• Communicate What Is Important
• Embrace Positive Change
• Influence Behavior
• Inspire People to Action
• Enhance Credible Leadership
• Shape Ministry Character
• Contribute to Ministry Success

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The Importance of Core Values

• Determine Ministry Distinctives
• Dictate Personal Involvement
• Communicate What Is Important
• Embrace Positive Change
• Influence Behavior
• Inspire People to Action
• Enhance Credible Leadership
• Shape Ministry Character
• Contribute to Ministry Success
• Determine the Ministry Vision

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• it is clearly necessary to invent organizational
  structures appropriate to the multicultural age.
  But such efforts are doomed to failure if they do
  not grow out of something deeper out of
  generally held values.
• -Vaclav Havel

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The Definition of Core Values

• What Core Values Are Not

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The Definition of Core Values

• What Core Values Are Not
• Vision

vision
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The Definition of Core Values

• What Core Values Are Not
• Vision
• Strategies

strategies
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The Definition of Core Values

• What Core Values Are Not
• Vision
• Strategies
• Doctrinal Statements

doctrinal statements
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The Definition of Core Values

• What Core Values Are Not
• What Core Values Are

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• What Core Values Are

Biblical
Passionate
Constant
Drive Ministry
Core Beliefs
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The Definition of Core Values

• What Core Values Are Not
• What Core Values Are
• Kinds of Values

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• Kinds of Values

Unconscious Values
Conscious Values
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• Kinds of Values

Organizational Values
Personal Values
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• Kinds of Values

Unshared Values
Shared Values
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• Kinds of Values

Aspirational Values
Actual Values
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• Kinds of Values

Incongruent Values
Congruent Values
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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?

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The Discovery of Core Values
THE LEADERSHIP TEAMTime
Smaller Ministries
Team Involvement
Larger Ministries
Board Involvement
Growth
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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?
• What Values?
• Individual Values
• Ministry Values
• Departmental Values

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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?
• What Values?
• Why Discover Core Values?

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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?
• What Values?
• Why Discover Core Values?
• Biblical Example
• Ministry Unity
• Maintaining Identity

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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?
• What Values?
• Why Discover Core Values?
• Discovering the Values
• Personal Values
• Corporate Values

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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?
• What Values?
• Why Discover Core Values?
• Discovering the Values
• Test of a Good Value

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Test of a Good Value

• Is it biblical?
• Does it produce passion?
• Is it shared?
• Is it constant?
• Can it be expressed clearly?
• Is it congruent with other values?
• Can it be implemented?

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The Discovery of Core Values

• Who Discovers the Core Values?
• What Values?
• Why Discover Core Values?
• Discovering the Values
• Test of a Good Value
• Comparing and Communicating the Results

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Core Values of a Team
A Team in Trouble!
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Core Values of a Team
A Team That Can Work Together!
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Comparison of Individuals Values to Ministry
Values
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The Development of Core Values

• Who Develops the Values?
• What Values?
• New Ministries
• Mature Ministries
• Plateaued Ministries

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Organizational values need aface-lift when there
is

• Frequent confusion and disagreement
• Overt cynicism and pessimism
• A maintenance ministry
• Plateaued or declining growth
• A lack of commitment and enthusiasm
• Low tolerance of change
• Distrust of leadership

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The Development of Core Values

• Who Develops the Values?
• What Values?
• Why Write Values Down?
• Gives values the authority of a leadership
  statement
• Written communication is much clearer and more
  precise than spoken communication
• Writing down core beliefs is vital to
  communicating beliefs

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The Development of Core Values

• Writing the credo
• Determine the value, not its form

Value Form
Biblical Community Small Groups
Evangelism Knocking on Doors
Fellowship Home Bible Study
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The Development of Core Values

• Writing the credo
• Determine the value, not its form
• Determine the number of values
• Determine the format of the values
• Introduce the value
• Explain the value
• Validate the value

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The Test of a Well-Written Credo

• Does it attract interest?
• Does it instill pride?
• Does it communicate well?
• Does it include a limited number of values?

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The Communication of Core Values
The Values-Casting Process
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The Communication of Core Values
Practical Methods for Casting Core Values

The leaders life The written credo
The leaders message Celebration and Heroes
Stories Programs
Visual Images Language and Metaphor
Media Orientation for New Participants Formal and informal conversation

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Implementation of Core Values

• The New Ministry
• The Established Ministry
• Reinforce Present Values
• Implement New Values

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Change Resisters

• Lack of Need
• Status Quo
• Vested Interests
• Distrust of Leaders
• Traditions
• Complexity of Change
• Conflict of Values
• Self-Centeredness

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Replacing Bad Values

• By covering over with new values
• By removing bad values
• By removing and replacing with new values

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Implementing New Values
Refreeze
Move to New Level
Unfreeze
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The Preservation of Core Values

• The Problem
• The Values Erosion Process
• Conflict
• Compromise

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The Preservation of Core Values

• The Problem
• The Values Erosion Process
• The Values Erosion People
• Values and Vision Vampires
• Values Vultures

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The Preservation of Core Values

• The Problem
• The Solution
• General Values Preservation
• Values Modeling
• Values Casting
• Specific Values Preservation
• Prevention
• Correction

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The Preservation of Core Values

• Preserving Values through Correction
• Challenging
• Enforcing
• Defending

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Developing Core ValuesBuilding Communities of
Commitment

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