ADVANTAGE

SEE FOR YOURSELF

CULTURE IS A COMPETITIVE

HOW ORGANISATIONAL

7 CULTURE-FIRST COMPANIES OVER 3 DAYS THE HAPPY SANDPIT THREE DAY FIELD TRIPS

MAY + SEPTEMBER, 2019

PROSPECTUS

Pics from previous Three Day Field Trips including Hollard, Microsoft, Comair, King Price Insurance, Missing Link and We Buy Cars.

TESTIMONIALS:Thabo Nkoane, Executive: Human Capital, AEL Mining Services

“I have studied organisational culture through my studies and have also been exposed to different organisational cultures. What this Three Day Field Trip has done is to give me an opportunity to view cultures at different companies through a different lens (inquisitive ob-server). The greatest learning for me was to recognise the critical role the CEO and his/her senior management team play in actively driving the culture from top to bottom. Without this relentless drive of top management, it is hard to see how culture can be sustained.”

Raymond Schkolne, Head of Human Resources at Sanlam Investments

"Many of us, including myself, are im-mersed in the “trenches” of our busi-nesses and don’t often take the time to lift our heads above the parapet. The opportunity you gave us to engage with passionate executives from very differ-ent businesses and fields of endeavour and to explore the distinctive cultures of highly successful companies, was a tremendous experience.” 

Join Happy Sandpit on an immersive learning experience as we visit seven culture-first compa-nies to learn how they drive employee engage-ment, teamwork and voluntary behaviors such as loyalty, performance and accountability.

Creating and nurturing culture that drives these qualities should be top of the list of goals for any organisation, but the challenge for leaders is to know what to do, and where to start.

In response to that, we’re excited to offer a pair of opportunities to choose from, to come and see for yourself, with unusual behind the scenes access, enabling you to tour their facilities, wit-ness in-depth presentations on how culture has contributed to their business success and finally, to put your questions directly to the most senior executives and leaders.

Our participating organisations are quite dif-ferent, but they all have one thing in common: strong, evident culture that has enabled them to achieve remarkable and unusual successes in di-verse areas such as hiring, retention, embedded values and beliefs, high-performing teams, and admired leadership.

There are only 22 places available for each of our 2019 Three Day Field Trips. Full details of each are available over the following pages.

Who should attend? Senior business leaders with esponsibility for hiring, training, growing and developing people and teams, with both day-to-day and strategic management responsibility. If you believe in the benefits of employee engagement, then you’ve come to the right place.

MAY 2019 THREE DAY FIELD TRIPDAY ONE: MAY 21 DAY TWO: MAY 22 DAY THREE: MAY 23

07h30BREAKFAST + ORIENTATION

OPEN DISCUSSION OF YOUR CULTURE STORIES + CULTURE CHALLENGES

BREAKFAST + DISCUSSIONBREAKFAST + DISCUSSION

08h00

08h30 TRAVEL

09h00 TRAVEL

DHL09h30 TRAVEL

HILTON

10h00

OCEAN BASKET10h30

11h00

11h30 TRAVEL

12h00 TRAVEL

ETC12h30

WE BUY CARS

TRAVEL

13h00

HOLLARD13h30

14h00 TRAVEL

14h30 TRAVEL

MISSING LINK15h00

KING PRICE15h30

TRAVEL16h00

16h30 ARRIVAL AND END OF DAYCAPTURE SESSION FOR

ALL THREE DAYS17h00

17h30 TRAVEL END OF THREE DAY FIELD TRIP

18h00 ARRIVAL AND END OF DAY

TESTIMONIALS:

Marius Swanepoel, Director Maps at TomTom Africa

"I just came back from attending the Happy Sandpit Three Day Field Trip. This was the most amazing experience. I would recommend this to anyone who is serious about culture. Colin and team provide the ideal platform for exchang-ing ideas and facilitating creating think-ing. It was a real eye opener.”

Niven Postma, Head: Leadership and Culture at Standard Bank

"I just wanted to thank you again for an excellent 3 days. I really enjoyed them and found the discussions, site visits and reading - which I'm happily plowing through now - extremely valuable and insightful." 

Past Happy Sandpit Three Day Field Trips have seen attendance from leaders in a range of human resources, operations and sales functions as well as the founders and leaders of business-es, big and small. Previous attendees have rep-resented banking, construction, mining, auto-motive, IT, hospitality, financial services, security, manufacturing, logistics, NGO and consumer goods.

That diverse audience can partly be explained because the organisations we visit on any Three Day Field Trip are themselves so diverse, pre-senting a broad range of lessons, and partly be-cause the pressing challenges of hiring the right people and organising them into high perform-ing teams demand similar attitudes and activities no matter what industry you’re in, or how large (or small) your business.

An additional benefit, which past participants have told us they found incredibly valuable is that you will share three full days with like-mind-ed participants from other businesses, brain-storming, debating, learning and sharing.

When is it?There are two to choose from, with a different line up of organisations on each. You can see full details on the calendars within this prospectus.

To get the greatest benefit, you should do all three days.

(#1) May 21, 22 + 23, (Tuesday, Wednesday + Thursday).

Who will we learn from in May?In order, the (eight!*) organisations we are going to visit in May are: Ocean Basket, We Buy Cars, King Price Insurance, Hilton, Hollard, DHL, ETC and Missing Link.

MAY 2019 THREE DAY FIELD TRIPDAY ONE: MAY 21 DAY TWO: MAY 22 DAY THREE: MAY 23

07h30BREAKFAST + ORIENTATION

OPEN DISCUSSION OF YOUR CULTURE STORIES + CULTURE CHALLENGES

BREAKFAST + DISCUSSIONBREAKFAST + DISCUSSION

08h00

08h30 TRAVEL

09h00 TRAVEL

DHL09h30 TRAVEL

HILTON

10h00

OCEAN BASKET10h30

11h00

11h30 TRAVEL

12h00 TRAVEL

ETC12h30

WE BUY CARS

TRAVEL

13h00

HOLLARD13h30

14h00 TRAVEL

14h30 TRAVEL

MISSING LINK15h00

KING PRICE15h30

TRAVEL16h00

16h30 ARRIVAL AND END OF DAYCAPTURE SESSION FOR

ALL THREE DAYS17h00

17h30 TRAVEL END OF THREE DAY FIELD TRIP

18h00 ARRIVAL AND END OF DAY

* In May, we have the rare opportunity to add an additional organisation to visit based on unusual availability. Our commitment is to deliver lessons from seven great organisations but where we can better that, we’ll grab the chance!

SEPT 2019 THREE DAY FIELD TRIPDAY ONE: SEPTEMBER 3 DAY TWO: SEPTEMBER 4 DAY THREE: SEPTEMBER 5

07h30

BREAKFAST + ORIENTATION

OPEN DISCUSSION OF YOUR CULTURE STORIES + CULTURE CHALLENGES

BREAKFAST + DISCUSSION BREAKFAST + DISCUSSION08h00

08h30 TRAVEL TRAVEL

09h00

DHL

MCDONALD’S

09h30

10h00 TRAVEL

10h30

FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL GROUP

11h00

11h30 TRAVEL

12h00

ENTELECT12h30

13h00 TRAVEL

13h30 TRAVEL

MISSING LINK14h00

ANGLO AMERICAN PLATINUM

TRAVEL

14h30

AFRIHOST15h00

15h30 TRAVEL

16h00

CAPTURE SESSION FOR ALL THREE DAYS16h30 TRAVEL TRAVEL

17h00 ARRIVAL AND END OF DAY ARRIVAL AND END OF DAY

17h30 END OF THREE DAY FIELD TRIP

18h00

(#2) September 3, 4 + 5, (Tuesday, Wednesday + Thursday).

Who will we learn from in September?In order, the organisations we are going to visit in September are: Flight Centre Travel Group, Anglo American Platinum, DHL, Entelect, Afri-host, McDonald’s and Missing Link.

At each stop along our Three Day Field Trip, we will experience something unique and different but sharing the fundamental goal helping us to develop a broad, detailed and varied under-standing of how culture drives results when it is practiced like an obsession.

How did we select these companies?We believe it is our job not just to get you access to some of the leading organisations in the coun-try, but also to apply our intelligent research to identify companies that have unusually brilliant lessons to teach.

The host organisations on this pair of Three Day Field Trips range from 25 South African employ-ees to 124,000 global employees, from privately held, to publicly listed, from a few years old to more than 100, across a range of industries, some household names and others yet to be. Each is specifically selected for their world-class thought leadership and practices.

What should you bring?Your curiosity and a pair of comfortable shoes. We’ll lay on everything else you’ll need: learning sessions, workbooks, materials, refreshments and transportation. Seriously though ... wear comfort-able shoes. We’ll be on foot a lot, upstairs, down-stairs, on cobbled pathways ... believe it, you’ll thank us later ...

SEPT 2019 THREE DAY FIELD TRIPDAY ONE: SEPTEMBER 3 DAY TWO: SEPTEMBER 4 DAY THREE: SEPTEMBER 5

07h30

BREAKFAST + ORIENTATION

OPEN DISCUSSION OF YOUR CULTURE STORIES + CULTURE CHALLENGES

BREAKFAST + DISCUSSION BREAKFAST + DISCUSSION08h00

08h30 TRAVEL TRAVEL

09h00

DHL

MCDONALD’S

09h30

10h00 TRAVEL

10h30

FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL GROUP

11h00

11h30 TRAVEL

12h00

ENTELECT12h30

13h00 TRAVEL

13h30 TRAVEL

MISSING LINK14h00

ANGLO AMERICAN PLATINUM

TRAVEL

14h30

AFRIHOST15h00

15h30 TRAVEL

16h00

CAPTURE SESSION FOR ALL THREE DAYS16h30 TRAVEL TRAVEL

17h00 ARRIVAL AND END OF DAY ARRIVAL AND END OF DAY

17h30 END OF THREE DAY FIELD TRIP

18h00

TESTIMONIALS:

Angela Tlale, Senior Manager: Industrial Relations and Performance, SA Taxi Finance

“Your excellent training skills and en-joyable personality made the Three Day Field Trip super awesome. I have learned so much from you and I look for-ward to learning more. Thanks for being remarkable at what you do!”

Jessica Matthysen, Chairman of the Junior Board, Alexander Forbes

“Thank you very much for an exciting and really fulfilling experience. I have brought back with me a wealth of knowl-edge and I am fully inspired to bring our culture to life in our organisation.” 

How will this benefit me?You will learn how companies operating under the same labour law, tapping employees from the same pool as you, have built great culture that helps them to drive employee engagement leading to performance, loyalty and the other voluntary behaviours we most desire as business leaders but too infrequently get.

The days will be full of practical lessons you can implement immediately.

You will be joined by up to 21 other like-minded participants who have had to face many of the same challenges as you, and experience tells us that new perspectives and previously unseen sides to a story can lift your thinking and take it in brand new directions.

You’ll have the time of your life. Really. This is go-ing to change the way you think about business and people management forever.

What’s included?• Refreshments throughout the day. We’ll keep

you well-fed and well-oiled throughout. • Transportation to and from the host compa-

nies on each day. You park your car in secure parking in the morning and we’ll take you back to it at the end of the day.

• All tours, senior executive Q&A sessions and presentations.

• Accompanying Three Day Field Trip work-book as well as all other relevant materials.

HOW TO BOOK YOUR PLACE:

Email:linda@happysandpit.comcolin@happysandpit.com

The cost of attendance is R15,000 (excl VAT) per person, all inclusive.

Bookings close either when places on either Three Day Field Trip are full up or on May 13 and August 26 respectively for the May and September iterations. Payment must be made in full, in ad-vance of the Three Day Field Trip.