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

LET’S
PAUSE
II
Truth or Story – (pass out the red packet)

Just three things
Seeds
Coins
Fruits
Take your Red Packet!
Values – The Key to Engagement

Why the Seed?

Why the Coin?
From school to university
University to Middle Temple
Lawyer to Business
Business to Failure
Failure to Fruitfulness

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

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.

But when I look around I am in truth, deeply concerned Values – The Key to Engagement

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

But what in the world went wrong? – I believe..
Misplaced Passion
Loved the wrong things
Mismanaged Debt
Consumerism without bounds
Misguided Values
Looked at the wrong priorities

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!!

Old Dreams – Gordon Gekko had a dream

Great day to build shareholder Value
Apple Mac
Arthur Andersen
Enron
Lehman Brothers - Etc. Etc.
Losing your Values COSTS .

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?

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.

Look at it like this……. 2 0

one of the most serious mistakes any organisational leader can make is to think that values are disconnected from profit, productivity or effectiveness. The second is to think that adopting “good practice” will save them from a severe roasting
direct benefits from strong values may be hard to see but neglect in this area can wipe out their reputation altogether.
Strong ethics keep organisations healthy. Weak ethics make them sick.
Ignore this at our peril!

Four Outrageous Statements
Organisational ethics -
there is no such thing - t here 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.

Old Paradigm – From the world of Workplace Safety Dependent Independent Inter-dependent Injury Rate Beyond the Bradley Curve? New Target .

Old Surveys - I am not Happy at work Anymore  UK Survey 2007

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

59%
25%
Old Surveys - I am not Happy Anymore Have not found a meaningful purpose in their work Are worried about the ethics of their own company UK Survey 2007

50%
90%
Old Surveys - I am not Happy Anymore Are trying to leave their jobs (and will be again after this recession) Believe their older managers don’t understand them UK Survey 2007

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 .

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)

Strategy As Is – Should/Could Be Goals Plan

The Winds of Change…they are blowing

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? Values – The Key to Engagement

Before strategy we must dream new dreams
Dream BIG
Start SMALL
Build DEEP

Martin Luther King he had a Vision William Wilberforce he had a Vision These men had DREAMS & VISIONS Q - Why were their hearts so engaged?

Remember the words of John F Kennedy…
“ We choose to go to “WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON
… ..Not because it is easy but because it is hard”

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)

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)

Values - The key to engagement?
Why Values?
What Values?
What Benefits?
Values – The Key to Engagement

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

Values Are critical to sustainability. They are the way we do things around here Q- Let’s make a list!

Affirmation Is 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

Trust Is a firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing

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.

So where do I fix my eyes to see greater results, greater productivity and efficiency On values, seeds, coins and fruits perhaps? Values – The Key to Engagement

Are you looking in the right place

Look somewhere else AIDS is not a health problem, it’s a wealth problem

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

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.

What we do between now and then will determine the future

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

Final thought! The Values are in the soil !

Thank you for listening
Questions?

I have a Vision…

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