Community, Education, Individual, Organisational, World Values Day 2020
By Charles Fowler One thing that’s become clear from our experience of the Covid crisis is that we must find a way to reach across the bitter divisions that divide so many of us around the world. Memories of those heart-warming experiences in the early days of the...
Organisational, World Values Day 2018
By Jackie Le Fèvre & Alan Williams Is there such a thing as too much advice? Google “Resilience at Work” and see what you think. We got 63,900,000 results in 0.41 seconds including some really interesting things like Seven Things Resilient Employees Do Differently...
Organisational, World Values Day 2018
By Sinead Hasson Companies can’t just talk about ethics, they have to demonstrate those values are intrinsic to how they operate says Sinead Hasson. Lip service is one of the issues that comes up when we chat to disgruntled employees. Things such as values being...
Organisational, World Values Day 2017
One of the most important and rewarding parts of running any organisation is listening to your stakeholders and reacting to their needs. It is however even more rewarding when you are part of an association where the feedback is coming from an involved membership. ...
Organisational, World Values Day 2017
How a values-driven approach is being implemented at what will be one of Europe’s largest prisons, Berwyn, in Wrexham, Wales. World Values Day is an opportunity for everybody to think about our most deeply held values and to act on them. This year special attention is...
Organisational, World Values Day 2017
On World Values Day, 19th October 2017, we acknowledge the importance of values in our personal and professional lives. Values are often likened to our moral compass. Values direct how we think and behave; what we regard as permissible and prohibited. There are some...
Organisational, World Values Day 2017
Organisations usually have no problem working out what values they should have. They spend a lot of time and effort planning, consulting, holding meetings, writing reports, maybe even conducting an internal survey. Then they put up these values chosen with such care...
Organisational, World Values Day 2017
World Values Day should be a red letter day for all high performing organisations because it reminds us that values are the compass, which drive what we do. Values are important because they help organisations engage their people. Over the years, while I have seen...
General, Organisational, World Values Day 2017
We are living in extraordinary times – volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. The pace of change will never be this slow again. In the service sector, many traditional approaches are no longer relevant and there is a new business agenda emerging. The landscape of...
Organisational, World Values Day 2017
If you have ever played mixies with a child you will know what fun it is to create characters that obviously don’t fit together. A bear head with a clown middle and a zoo keeper’s feet can keep children in stitches for hours. Unfortunately mixies are not so much fun...