Edp health, safety & environment consultants ‘values, the key to engagement’ and ‘leadership’

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LET’S PAUSE

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Truth or Story – (pass out the red packet)

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Just three things

1) Seeds

2) Coins

3) Fruits

Take your Red Packet!

Values – The Key to Engagement

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Why the Seed?

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Why the Coin?

From school to university University to Middle

Temple Lawyer to Business Business to Failure Failure to Fruitfulness

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Fruits that Grow in Vulnerability

There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability.

A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame.

Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability and fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, community is the fruit born through shared brokenness, and intimacy is the fruit that grows through touching one another's wounds.

Let's remind one another that what brings us true joy is not successfulness but fruitfulness.

By: Henri Nouwen

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In Summary

Success comes from strength, control, and respectability

Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability and fruits are unique.

What brings us true joy is not successfulness but fruitfulness.

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But when I look around I am in truth, deeply concerned


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Looking around the world… I see….

Declining Values in our societies Major economic challenges, especially in

my own country People who are unhappy in their work

and not much happier at home. And.. I feel deeply dissatisfied about

these things

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But what in the world went wrong? – I believe..

Misplaced Passion

> Loved the wrong thingsMismanaged Debt

>Consumerism without boundsMisguided Values

> Looked at the wrong priorities

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Old Paradigms – I don’t Trust you anymore!

Three Examples: The banking crisis (we have lost trust) Divorce rates climbing (we have lost trust) UK’s MP’s expenses just don’t stack up.

Even on Wall Street things were changing!!

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Old Dreams – Gordon Gekko had a dream

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Great day to build shareholder Value

Apple Mac Arthur Andersen Enron Lehman Brothers - Etc. Etc.

> Losing your Values COSTS.

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Old Paradigms – What is the purpose of Business?

Milton Friedman made it clear……..

The purpose of business is to maximize PROFIT for the SHAREHOLDER

I beg to challenge…Surely there is a more noble purpose of business?

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Of course business has a noble purpose, it’s…

To deliver on our promise to provide goods and services that build a better, safer, happier world for ALL our stakeholders

Our reward for doing this well is the profit.

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Look at it like this…….

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• one of the most serious mistakes any organisational one of the most serious mistakes any organisational leader can make is to think that values are leader can make is to think that values are disconnected from profit, productivity or effectiveness. disconnected from profit, productivity or effectiveness. The second is to think that adopting “good practice” The second is to think that adopting “good practice” will save them from a severe roastingwill save them from a severe roasting

• direct benefits from strong values may be hard to direct benefits from strong values may be hard to see but neglect in this area can wipe out their see but neglect in this area can wipe out their reputation altogether. reputation altogether.

•Strong ethics keep organisations healthy. Weak Strong ethics keep organisations healthy. Weak ethics make them sick. ethics make them sick.

Ignore this at our peril!Ignore this at our peril!

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Four Outrageous Statements

Organisational ethics -> there is no such thing - there is only ethics

Legal Compliance is dying> Management is doing things right; leadership is doing

the right things.” (Stephen R Covey)

Increasing ‘shareholder value’ is not the purpose of business > Building a better World is the purpose of business

(Dr Patrick Dixon)

Management is not the answer> It’s Leadership - that is the answer.

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Old Paradigm – From the world of Workplace Safety

Dependent Independent Inter-dependent

Inju

ry R

ate

Beyond the Bradley Curve?

New Target

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Old Surveys - I am not Happy at work Anymore

UK Survey 2007

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75%

90%

Old Surveys - I am not Happy Anymore

Believe their boss does not value the skills gained from volunteer work

Are looking for a higher purpose at work UK Survey 2007

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59%25%


Have not found a meaningful purpose in their work

Are worried about the ethics of their own company

UK Survey 2007

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50%

90%


Are trying to leave their jobs (and will be again after this recession)

Believe their older managers don’t understand them

UK Survey 2007

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New Paradigm - Future leaders look different

The Baby boomers are still around The X Generation want to do it differently The talented ‘Y’ generation wants to work

for responsible organisations that are more focussed on ‘Building a Better World’ that delivers results as a consequence of doing this really well.

The Z generation will be even more demanding.

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Despair, Despair - Is there any Hope?

“O there’s none; no no no there’s none:

Be beginning to despair, to despair,

Despair, despair, despair, despair.Spare! There is one, yes I have one (Hush

there!)………. A care kept.— Where kept? Do but tell us where kept,

where.—Yonder.—What high as that! We follow, now we follow.—Yonder, yes yonder, yonder ,Yonder.

(The leaden Echo – by Gerard Manley Hopkins)

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Goals

Plan

Strategy

As Is – Should/Could Be

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The Winds of Change…they are blowing

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Looking Forward, I can see hope, hope for new dreams and visions, new paradigms and new leadership models

Q - What three things might you do?


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Before strategy we must dream new dreams

Dream BIGStart SMALLBuild DEEP

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Martin Luther Martin Luther KingKinghe had a Visionhe had a Vision

William Wilberforce William Wilberforce he had a Visionhe had a Vision

These men had These men had DREAMS & VISIONSDREAMS & VISIONS

Q - Why were their hearts so engaged?Q - Why were their hearts so engaged?

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Remember the words of John F Kennedy…

“We choose to go to “WE CHOOSE TO “WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOONGO TO THE MOON

… …..Not because it is ..Not because it is easy but because it easy but because it

isis hard”hard”

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The ‘EDP’ Little Dream – ‘Helping to Build a Better World’

Improving wellbeing through providing good health, safety & environment solutions

Transforming individuals, communities and nations by providing long term sustainable solutions for the workplaces

(that - by the way - makes profit & grows)

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10 years on - each one a story about transformation

The Bangui Entrepreneurs (CAR) The Saltedfish.com (Cambodia) Red Rock ( UK and Asia) High Country (Morocco) The ‘fruitsellers’ in West Sahara Yejj Training (Cambodia) T-Fusion in Tibet (China) Pretty Magazine (Cambodia) The Iron Works (Cambodia) Graphic design (Turkey) Cotton (China) Manufacturing (Hong Kong) Safety Consultancy

(UK & SE Asia) Kindergarten (India) Café Eden (Cambodia)

Freed Fashion (UK & Cambodia) Trekking (Turkey) Origami (India) Flowers & Plants (India) Craft and Artisan

(Afghanistan/Kashmir) Yejj IT (Cambodia) Heritage Centre (India) Pizza in (Georgia) Organics (UK & Asia) Consultancy (France) Translation Services (China & Asia) Culture Consultancy (Asia) Craft & Pottery (Cambodia) IT Consultancy (SE Asia) School for Entrepreneurs (Cambodia)

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Values - The key to engagement?

1) Why Values?

2) What Values?

3) What Benefits?


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Why Values - Definitions

Values are a collection of guiding principles

They are an enduring belief or Ideal shared by members of a culture that exerts influence on an individual to behave and live in it

Values are principles that guide an organization’s internal conduct

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ValuesAre critical to sustainability.

They are the way we do things around here

Q- Let’s make a list!

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AffirmationIs a personal key to success

The act of affirming or the state of

being affirmed. It is something declared to be true – a positive

statement or judgment

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TrustIs a firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person

or thing

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Humility?a lack of false pride

Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.

Showing deferential or submissive respect.

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So where do I fix my eyes to see greater results, greater productivity and efficiency

On values, seeds, coins and fruits perhaps?


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Are you looking in the right placeAre you looking in the right place

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Look somewhere else

AIDS is not a health problem,

it’s awealth problem

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To whom will you pass the coin?

It is now an upside-down world and our values system is more critical

The Golden Rule is to:

> ‘Build A Better World’ for All our stakeholders

> Treat them all as you would want to be treated

I truly believe that as we build values greater results are discovered, engagement occurs and fruitfulness emerges

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Finally (almost)

We live in a period of transition, on the borderline between a paradigm that no longer satisfies and one that is, to a large extent, still amorphous and opaque…In the field of leadership, a paradigm shift always means> both continuity and change,> both faithfulness to the past and boldness to

engage the future,> both constancy and contingency,> both tradition and transformation.

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What we dobetween now and then

will determine the future

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So what can you take away for work next week?

STOP – Just stop for 30 seconds – and just think

START – Thinking about ‘how could be’

> Plant seeds, bear fruit and pass coins

CONTINUE – Dream of what might be possible beyond the next level of thinking

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Final thought! The Values are in the soil!

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Thank you for listening

Questions?

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I have a I have a Vision…Vision…

Education

Edp health, safety & environment consultants ‘values, the key to engagement’ and ‘leadership’