Haiku Deck Rock Star Series: Showcasing Company Values and Culture
There’s nothing quite like the last few work days of the year — they’re a bit quieter yet also more festive, with heightened camaraderie and (if your office is anything like ours) heightened quantities of hot chocolate and peppermint bark. Creative fuel, we call it…
In my book, it’s an ideal time for reflecting on the year’s accomplishments and tackling important, yet often-delayed, projects like capturing company values and guiding principles. Here’s one I put together in well under an hour.
Haiku Deck Culture and Core Values – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Here’s another nice example from Neal Kearney Realty:
Kearney Realty Co. – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Making values visible — and visual — helps make them real, and also sets the tone beautifully for next year’s plans and goals.
After all, if your company values and mission/vision statements truly matter, they deserve to be showcased in a beautiful, inspiring format, not pinned forlornly to the wall above the copy machine or buried in an Intranet folder.
Making values visible — and visual — helps make them real, and also sets the tone beautifully for next year’s plans and goals.
To help you get to that satisfying “done” even faster, here’s a template you can use to showcase your company values in a beautiful, visual Haiku Deck.
Culture and Core Values Haiku Deck Presentation Template – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Rock Star Tips for Making Company Values Visible
- This is a great place to make use of the new logo slide type — try using it for the first and last slides of your Haiku Deck.
- You can also use the new custom color picker to match your company colors exactly. Another good tip for creating a cohesive, branded feel is to do an image search for your company colors — for example, “blue,” “blue abstract,” or “blue graphic.” (More tips for finding killer images here.)
- The paragraph slide type gives you a bit more text to work with for capturing a concise founding story, an inspiring quote from your founder, or a well-crafted mission statement. If you need more space, you can always add detail in the Notes field.
Sample paragraph slide
- Incorporate your own images if possible — your team, your office, your products. (More tips in Importing Images like a Pro.)
- There’s no better way to make values visible than to share them far and wide — you can embed your Haiku Deck on your blog or website, share it with your social media networks, share it directly with team members and customers, or upload it to SlideShare. (Pro tip: add a “culturecode” tag to your SlideShare upload to increase the chances of your deck being showcased.)
Your Turn
We’d love to see your company values in Haiku Deck form! Please share links in the comments, or tweet them with the hashtag #hdgallery.
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