Living our company values

Values printed on a wall are easy to write and easy to ignore; what makes them real is whether anyone can point to them in the actual choices people make day to day. The gap between a stated value and a lived one is usually not cynicism but vagueness: people aren't sure what the value looks like in practice. Closing that gap is mostly a matter of concrete examples, not more posters.

Why this subject matters

When values stay abstract, they quietly become background noise, and a team learns to treat them as decoration rather than guidance. Decisions get made on instinct and convenience, newcomers can't tell what the place actually stands for, and the culture drifts toward whatever happens by default rather than what was intended. That drift isn't anyone's failing: it's what happens when a value is named but never shown.

This is hard because values are inherently abstract, and turning "integrity" or "care" into a recognisable everyday action takes more thought than most teams ever get the chance to give it. Without concrete examples grounded in the actual work, even people who genuinely hold the values struggle to act on them consistently. The missing piece is illustration, not commitment.

It matters across any organisation, and especially distributed ones where culture can't be absorbed by osmosis from a shared office. A short training that pins each value to a real, recognisable example makes them something a team can actually live rather than merely recite.

Structure and types of content in the template

On Eli, every template is a one-to-two-week training or engagement program that takes each participant only a few minutes a day. These programs draw on three types of content: questions, memos, and actions. Questions invite employees to share their point of view on a subject, either to poll them anonymously or to get them thinking about a habit they might have. Memos are small knowledge nuggets that take a few seconds to read, may feature an infographic or an educational video, and always come with a quiz. Actions are concrete steps employees can put into practice during their day, either with their team or on their own in the field.

By bringing these three types of content together, Eli creates an efficient, complete training cycle in which employees question, learn, and practice, all within a single training sprint, and in record time.

What makes it different from your traditional initiatives

Building and keeping a culture where everyone grows and feels at home is hard for any company, and harder still with high turnover or fast growth. The fix is a double alignment: who people are individually and as a group (culture), and what they want personally (their career) and together (your vision and mission). Individualized training skips the collective side; group workshops skip the individual one, and running both just keeps the two apart. With this template on Eli, you hit both pillars at once: personal reflection turns into team conversation, and people land on consensus they actually own instead of a vision handed down from above.

How to get the most out of it

Our templates are a very good place to start, but using them as-is will only get you about 60% of the result you're hoping for. To genuinely move the needle with your teams, you'll need to fine-tune them to your exact needs, your company culture, your internal policies, and more.

On Eli, all you have to do is hand that off to our AI agent, which takes care of everything: explain what you want in a few words, upload any documents it needs, and our agent does the rest.

If you'd like a better sense of how our platform works and want to make sure it fits your needs, book a meeting with one of our experts!

What's inside

What are the 3 values that best represent the company's culture to you?
What are the 3 values that best represent the company's culture to you?Poll
Discover the company's values and what they mean
Discover the company's values and what they meanMemo
Which company value do you identify with the most?
Which company value do you identify with the most?Poll
Determine which values matter most to you at work
Determine which values matter most to you at workAction

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