Objectives

The key output of the exercise was for people to understand the generic context of the organisation’s strategic values, and through practical activities decide how these can provide a practical framework for embedding values in the workplace.

Throughout, it was essential that people would gain an appreciation of how an intrinsic value set could be practised using appropriate behaviours across international and cultural boundaries.

Maximillion was asked to design a series of highly interactive conference activities for senior managers in cross-functional groups that was:

• Practical, understandable & relevant
• Fun & engaging
• Promoted understanding of the business context for ‘Values at work’

Outline

During the conference participants worked with colleagues from a diverse cultural base, collaborating to a create practical understanding of how to work with values in the workplace and manage the impact of corporate strategic developments.

Working in partnerships with the client, Maximillion consultants developed a series of experiential models of the business’s values. The use of large scale mural and pictorial examples of how the organisation is currently providing products and services enabled participants to work towards ways of describing through the use of pictures, what working with values would look like.

During the second part of the conference, participants built a colourful picture of their customer base with highly visible features that accurately described details of particular importance to clients and their customers. Embedded within this display was an accurate numerical value of costs and resources required to achieve optimal business needs and targets. From this model the conference was able to plan activity that led towards achieving these targets over the short and intermediate terms. Participants were given examples of the behaviours that would form part of the ways of achieving these targets.