Determine Your Organization’s MVO

Determine your Mission, Values, and Objectives—your MVO statement. There are numerous resources to help you craft your mission, values, and objectives if you have not done so already.
If you have already crafted them, it might not hurt to take a second look. Ask yourself the following questions about each element of your MVO statement:
• Is this measurable?
• Does each element provide value?
• Can I explain what it means?
• Are our decisions actively based on our MVO?

Once you have determined your company’s mission, values, and objectives, you need to measure your employee’s alignment with them. This can impart a whole new level of responsibility and accountability in your company. By measuring the performance of your employees with the company’s mission, values, and objectives, you can completely align your company.
By incorporating your MVO into your review process, you get an additional benefit—your employees will truly know the company’s MVO.
These solutions shouldn’t be done piecemeal. Having a mission and values statement is meaningless if no action is taken. Measuring the alignment of your employees to the company’s MVO is moot if your employees don’t truly know the company’s MVO. Without discovering the unique strengths, goals, and values of your employees, you will miss out on your untapped resources.

Are there other turnover issues? Of course there are, but when you address the unique strengths and MVO of your employees and focus on alignment throughout the company, many other turnover issues are solved without even trying:
• The need for new challenges: You will help them determine their MVO.
• Personal happiness: You will show them that the company truly cares about them.
• Satisfaction with job role: They will be matched to their strengths.
• Teamwork: Alignment will become a key focus throughout the company.
• Communication: By implementing MVO alignment across the board, you will experience a level of communication most companies only dream about.

By discovering the Distinct Natural Abilities™ of your employees and aligning their MVO with the company’s MVO, you will build a stable, low-turnover culture that maximizes everyone’s potential.