Your official job description as a leader may outline responsibilities, deliverables, and metrics-based targets you’re expected to meet each year. However, organizational leaders are also charged with one critical function that’s less often documented: inspiration.

If this conjures a vision of standing up in front of your team and delivering rousing orations, don’t worry. What successful organizations know about inspiring their teams is much simpler, and it involves less stage time than you’d expect. The key to developing an engaged, productive, and inspired organization centers around how you align your people with your organization’s values. Here are a few simple ways you can get started.

  1. Integrate Your Values And Mission Into Your Language
  2. Connect Every Team Member’s Purpose To Your 'Why' From The Outset
  3. Set The Gold Standard For Values-Based Leadership

There’s a reason why high-performing teams seem to work together effortlessly. Synchronized talent aligned with a shared purpose leads to better results, engagement and retention. Elevate the importance of your organization’s values in every facet of your business, fostering and reinforcing desired behaviors along the way. The natural rhythm of your team’s “why” will emerge, leading to stronger connections with one another and your shared purpose.

Read the full article about aligning organizational values by Gloria Horsley at Forbes.