IHE is proud to co-present:

Leadership in the 21st Century
Building a sustainable high-performance, values-driven
organisation in challenging times

Signature Workshop with Richard Barrett
19 March 2009 Melbourne, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
23 March 2009, Sydney, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Author of Building a Values-driven Organisation:
A Whole-System Approach to Cultural Transformation and
Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organisation

A leadership workshop providing valuable insight into:

- Why cultural capital is the new frontier of competitive advantage

- Why cultural transformation begins with the personal transformation of the leaders

- How to measure the culture of an organisation by mapping values to the
  Barrett model

- How to attract and keep talented people

- Why the best companies to work for are the most profitable

- Why global organisations are embracing values

- The five modes of decision-making

- The seven levels of leadership consciousness

- The importance of full-spectrum consciousness

- How to reduce cultural entropy

Co-presenters:

Alex Feher, Director of the Institute of Human Excellence and co - author of Master CEOs—insights into Australia’s most successful leaders. Alex will discuss findings from his book as to how values are used by some of Australia’s most
successful companies.

Pat Grier—Ex CEO of Ramsay Health Care and board member of several leading Australian public companies. During his time as CEO of Ramsay, he helped guide the company from $200 mill revenue to over $2 billion. He will share his experiences and use of the “Ramsay Way”, a values driven framework for driving the business forward.

Participation fee

$790 (inc GST) Lunch included

Your culture is your competitive advantage

A 2008 survey of 160 Australian organisations by Hewitt Associates and the Barrett Values Centre identified:

Companies with the highest levels of staff engagement and lowest levels of cultural entropy (degree of internal dysfunction) had the highest revenue growth over a three year period.

Values-driven companies are the most successful companies.

Why? ... Values drive culture.
             Culture drives employee fulfilment.
             Employee fulfilment drives customer satisfaction.
             Customer satisfaction drives shareholder value.

What are values, and why are they important?

Values are deeply held principles that drive people’s behaviours. Organisations express their values through their working culture, and research strongly link financial performance with the alignment of organisational operating values and employees’ personal values. Who you are and what you stand for has become just as important as the quality of your products and services.

In Corporate Culture and Performance, John P. Kotter and James L. Heskett reveal that companies with strong adaptive cultures based on shared values outperform other companies significantly. During an eleven-year period, companies emphasizing all stakeholders grew four-times faster than companies that did not. Their job creation rates were seven-times higher, stock prices grew 12-times faster, and profit performance was 750-times higher than companies that did not have shared values and adaptive cultures.

In Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras note that over several decades companies that consistently focused on building strong corporate cultures outperformed companies that did not by a factor of six and outperformed the general stock market by a factor of 15.

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