Do You Know Your Co-Founder's Values? Build a Principles-First Founding Team with this Conversation Guide

Two-part conversation guide to having a critical conversation about values and how you expect to operationalize them within your founding team and beyond.

This guide consists of two exercises:

• Part I: Define your principles

• Part II: Your Principles in Practice

Part I: Define Your Principles

Instructions: Select the top 5 principles that are most important to you in your workplace and how you show up. Think about: Does this define me at work when I am at my best? Is this a filter I use to make hard decisions?

Part II: Your Principles in Practice

Instructions: Define how these principles do (not) show up in your workplace / partnership. Please bring in specific examples of previous and/or current working relationships to translate these values into behaviors.

I hope this tactical guide is helpful, if you’d like to chat more about it - you can schedule a quick chat with me here.

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