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Values Programme: Staff Focus Groups
Sharan Virdee
Values Programme Leader
Equality and Diversity Advisor
Values Programme Staff Sessions: Presentation Outline
The Values Programme
Progress to date
The Heriot-Watt University Brand
Today’s session
Focus on the FutureHEADLINES
Reshape and grow academic base by 50% in ten years
Fulfil ambition to be like a leading 1994 Group
institution
People Theme Team SUMMARY
Established to ‘build staff capacity to meet the performance challenges of the strategic plan’
4 projects:
• Values programme
• Development programme
• Staff survey
• Development framework
Develop and embed a shared understanding of University core values (and associated behaviours) that help foster a supportive and inspiring learning and research environment
Values Programme
Values Programme Methodology
Values Programme Workshop held April 2009
Staff Survey Questions
Focus Groups
Wider staff focus groups at Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campuses
Communication with Dubai and Orkney
Staff Survey VALUES
VALUING PEOPLE
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
NURTURING POTENTIAL
FORWARD THINKING & FLEXIBLE
SERVICE FOCUS
COLLABORATION
RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP
COLLEGIALITY
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES
INTERNATIONALISATION
Staff Survey Feedback:
The values were difficult to rank – they were of equal importance and linked
There is a need to fully represent services and academia in any ‘values’
Student focus/student experience – is this explicit enough?
Some cynicism by respondents of Motherhood and Apple Pie statements
Staff Survey OVERALL VALUES RANKING - QUESTIONS
2 values came out as the most highly ranked: Valuing People - over 50% rated
this as the most important value Over 30% rated Pursuit of
Excellence as the 2nd most important value
The other values were clustered together
The values needed further refining
Senior Management Focus Groups
4 Focus Groups held with Senior Management to consider the staff survey outcomes
The ranked values and comments used to further refine values
A new outline of 5 values produced – incorporating rankings, comments and feedback from the Staff Survey
Core Values:
The Spirit of HWU
Pursuing Excellence
Valuing and Respecting Everyone
Pride and Belonging
Shaping the Future
Outward Looking
Purpose of the Session
Bringing the Values to Life
The Heriot-Watt Brand
The Brand activity informs the Values
The Brand is expressed internally via the values
The Values enable the Brand come to life in all our activities
Today’s Session
1. What does each value mean to you? If this value was happening, what would it look like?
2. What would we not be doing?
3. What examples do you have of bringing the value to life?
Exercise
5 Tables
5 Values
5 Minutes
What happens next?
A final outline of core values including:
What they are
What they mean
What they look like
How we make it happen