Corporate Mission to Mars: Discovering Your Values

What if future success is hidden in today's team?

Let me show you the process that re-shaped our company for success:

The main reason why you see that your team may or may not perform in their positions, but you're lacking culture, cohesion, and still encounter toxic traits is because you haven’t defined truly and practically, which are your company’s values.

The values that you’ll use every day as the main company tool, not the boring corporate sh*t printed on your wall that no one ever read.

The "Mission to Mars" exercise pushes you to think critically about what truly defines your organization and what's just a byproduct of current circumstances.

The best news: your true values, already exist within your company.

Here it goes:

The Mission to Mars Exercise - Unleashing Your Company’s Values

Imagine this: You're selected as part of a team tasked with establishing the first human colony on Mars.

But there's a twist. You can only take with you the most essential attributes and values from your organization.

Mars needs to become the same as your company eventually.

And you can only take 3 people from your company for this mission.

Who would you choose?

Steps:

1. Set the Scene:

Gather your executive team: "Imagine we are all astronauts, and we have been chosen to establish the first human colony on Mars. However, Mars can only sustain a specific culture, so we need to determine THREE people from our company, that we will bring to the mission.”

2. Choose the Astronauts:

Ask each person to write down the 3 teammates that they would bring. Remember, they may be the best performing and most admirable employees from the whole company history (even past ones).

3. Dig Out Values:

Now everyone will write 4 values that represent each of those astronauts (hence each person should have 12 values).

4. Prioritize:

Write on the board all the values described, and prioritize with votes the one that got more mentions.

Discuss briefly to see if the main 4-5 are really the ones that stand out the most.

5. Refine and Make It Unique:

With the top 3 to 5 core values chosen and agreed upon, write a catchy 3-6 word phrase that contains that value to make it more personal. Example, for “passion”, it could be “We live and breathe passion”.

Use your marketing skills!

6. Action Plan:

Determine how you’re going to integrate these values in your day-to-day: performance evaluations, notebooks wallpapers, prospect interviews, company’s verbatim, etc.

Get ready for this internal revolution. It may blow your team's mind.

Your company will never be the same after colonizing Mars :)

?PS: I help high-performing founders navigate crucial transitions with natural confidence and ease, if this resonates with you, let's connect.