How to Support the Qualities

Building Character

How to Support the Quality of the Month Within Your Organization

The following activities can be applied to all organizations, whether business, education, faith organization or local government.

You can take action steps to encourage good character in each member of an organization.

Gain commitment of leaders to try to model the character quality of the month.
Train subordinates in principles of character development and character-based management, and encourage each to put them into practice.
Implement ways of encouraging good character throughout the organization:
- Disseminate e-mail or an internal newsletter that describes the quality and encourages its practice.
- Print the monthly character quality on payroll checks.
- Provide Character First!® (or similar) bulletin to each member monthly.
- Provide a copy of the book Achieving True Success by Building a Character Family to each member of the organization.
- Formally recognize members exhibiting good character.
- Encourage leaders to routinely and personally recognize and encourage good character in individual members of the organization in the midst of normal daily activities.
- Encourage members to encourage good character in others regularly in the course of normal daily activities.

Organizations can also encourage others outside the organization to practice and to encourage good character.

Share testimonies and other helpful information with the Character Council which it can use to encourage others.
Participate in breakfasts, seminars and other gatherings of other organizations and individuals to encourage and be encouraged in the pursuit of good character.
Adopt another organization (small business, school, service organization, etc.) to help encourage their commitment to encourage good character, by helping to fund training and training materials, modeling, testifying to benefits that have been realized, coaching, etc.