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Company Culture Value Generator
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A company culture value generator saves hours of workshop time by producing structured value statements you can actually work from. Culture values shape hiring decisions, manager feedback, and how your brand presents itself to candidates — but most teams stall on a blank page. This tool generates a headline value paired with a supporting statement for each entry, so you can see what 'action-oriented' or 'human-focused' sounds like in practice before committing to anything. Choose between one and however many values you need, pick a style, and get a draft longlist ready to refine with your leadership team in minutes rather than days.
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How to use
- Choose your options above
- Click Generate
- Copy your result
Detailed instructions
- Set the count slider to the number of values your company needs, typically between three and seven.
- Choose a style from the dropdown — Inspiring for public-facing culture decks, Action-Oriented for internal handbooks, Human-Focused for people-first organisations.
- Click Generate to produce a set of values, each with a headline and a supporting description.
- Review the output and regenerate one or more times to build a longlist of candidates to compare.
- Copy your chosen values into your culture deck, handbook, or careers page and refine the wording with your leadership team.
Use Cases
- •Building a culture deck for a seed-stage startup to share with investors and early hires
- •Refreshing stale values after a merger, where two teams now need one shared set of principles
- •Generating a longlist of 8–10 candidates to rank and debate in a leadership workshop
- •Writing the culture section of an employee handbook with concrete, behaviour-level descriptions
- •Creating employer branding copy for a LinkedIn careers page or job board profiles
Tips
- →Generate at least three separate batches and combine the strongest values from each — different runs surface different angles on the same theme.
- →Use the Action-Oriented style when values will appear in performance reviews or hiring scorecards; behavioural language is easier to assess against.
- →If two generated values feel similar, that's a sign to merge them into one stronger, more specific statement rather than keeping both.
- →Test each value against a real past decision: ask 'would this value have guided us differently in that situation?' — if not, it may be too vague.
- →Pair the Inspiring style output with your actual mission statement to check for consistency in tone before publishing externally.
- →Avoid selecting values that only describe what you already do well — effective culture values should also reflect where you aspire to grow.
FAQ
how many core values should a company actually have
Three to seven is the widely accepted range — enough to cover distinct behaviours without producing a list no one remembers. If you generate five and two feel redundant, that's a signal to consolidate. Fewer, sharper values tend to influence decisions more reliably than a long list of aspirational words.
what's the difference between inspiring and action-oriented value styles
Inspiring values use emotionally resonant language suited to careers pages and culture decks. Action-oriented values are verb-first and behavioural — better for handbooks, performance reviews, and hiring scorecards. Human-focused values centre empathy, belonging, and relationships, which tends to work well for service teams and mission-driven organisations.
can I use generated culture values as-is or do they need editing
Treat the output as a strong first draft rather than final copy. The structure and language will be professionally formed, but effective values reflect your specific context — your industry, your team's personality, and any real behaviours you want to reinforce or rule out. Run the generator, shortlist the strongest results, then refine the wording in a team session.