This guide is a selection of key articles that will help you and your studio define your core values and transform them into action, driving meaningful change beyond just words on a poster.
What makes an effective core value?
Learn how to identify and articulate practical and powerful core values that resonate and work for you and your team:
Articulating Your Values Effectively
When articulated well, your values should inspire a sense of purpose, cultivate a unified culture, and steer your team toward its goals.
Identifying your values: Workshop
This workshop can be run as an individual or with a group and will take you through an effective process for identifying what is important and honing those ideas into a genuinely useful set of values:
Discovering Your Core Values: A Workshop
This workshop specifically targets a gaming studio or team looking to establish or improve their values.
Operationalizing your values
Identifying your values means ensuring they are meaningfully applied throughout the organization. Learn about opportunities to get ahead of common pitfalls and what it means to truly abide by your values in the studio:
The following practices will help ensure your core values will be both impactful and widely adopted by your team.
Recognizing and tackling barriers to change
Identify some common roadblocks to values-driven work in game development and equip yourself with some proven techniques for addressing them:
Explore common barriers to values-driven change and ways you can help win over hearts, minds, and budgets.
Avoiding burnout
How to take care of yourself and your team when dealing with the unique burden of values-driven work:
Avoiding Burnout in Values-Driven Work
Understand the unique nature of burnout in the context of values-driven work, prioritize self-care, and find the right support.
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