About us: Testimonials

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"Values AT Work have supported our efforts at cultural change in our client organisations. These companies have generally survived on chaos and need to move their paradigms in order to grow. The Values AT Work methods and values based thinking allows even the most skeptical of managers to understand the space they are in and think about where they can move to.

After working with the management teams we have then used the same principles to work through the organisation to ensure that the company thinking is aligned with the direction the leadership team wishes to take. They work with individuals and groups to focus on personal values and how these impact the group values.

Working with the Values AT Work team has allowed us to bring about cultural change faster than we would normally be able to achieve."

Linda Peters
Business Consultant

"We found Values AT Work a fantastic group to work with in helping us to identify the values we wanted to instill within our organisation, and aiding our implementation of a programme around changing behavior. Values AT Work worked with both management and staff to help us identify our own values and the priority we place on them. This has been a revelation for some, and has helped both individuals, through improved understanding of their own drivers, and for the organisation, in terms of introducing the concept of values alignment, behavioural change, and a great strand in our Employee Value Proposition.

We look forward to working with Values AT Work in the future as we roll out the programme to other parts of the organisation."

Bridget Frame
Project Manager
Shell NZ Commercial

"A number of our team have worked together for the past two years.  We recently recruited additional members including myself as manager, and we found Values AT Work added significant worth to our newly formed team by defining what was important to each member, both personally and in a work environment.  Understanding these priorities have allowed us to improve communication. There was an initial reluctance to share values, however Dougal provided the guidance and facilitated a trusting forum to overcome this.  Once shared, the team recognised the differences in each others' needs. Values AT Work also provides an understanding of individuals' drivers in life, I believe this crystallised peoples' vision for their own future.
As a manager, it assists me to focus on individuals' strengths and weaknesses, to provide support where needed and allow latitude in areas where an individual's strength is apparent.
Values AT Work will not provide an instant solution, working towards a high performance team is an evolution that takes effort.  It is up to us to build a performing team from the outputs of our workshop: our purpose, our identity and our values - these outputs have provided a terrific foundation to work from."

Robin Dowe
Online Advertising Manager
Xtra

"The benefits of working with Values AT Work are:

Specific expertise in the field of values integration into organisations (that works well in bringing understanding to a corporate audience)

A deeper understanding of values (the elements thereof and the distinctions between say values and beliefs etc)

Specific measurement/evaluative instruments

Personality and passion in facilitation and presentation of the concepts (obviously specific to Michael and Dougal)

Professionalism (delivery against promises)

The ability to take the concepts and apply against a variety of circumstances found in business

Relevance to modern business practices (the need to identify and articulate what is important has assumed greater priority for staff well-being and satisfaction, and in order for businesses to be able to allow staff to prioritise against competing calls on their time and resources)

Finally, it is always useful to have this type of work done by externals. Staff assign them more credibility than internals simply because they are external.

Marc Burns
HR Manager
Canon NZ

"Values AT Work facilitate real pragmatic understanding of how values drive organisation and individual performance...and how to understand individual and team values. They are experts in this field who are focused on your organisations' needs and tailor what they do to deliver to your needs.

They are driven by high integrity in their work. Individuals in our company got huge benefit as did our teams. Their work was the cause of open constructive dialogue that has created stronger healthier teams.
Values AT Work: great stuff...loved working with them ... fun and challenging and a little bit strange!"

Greg Runnerstrum
Marketing Manager
Yellow Pages

"Values at Work was very well received by all team members.......more balance has been evident in salespeople between personal and business....it has certainly opened up the teams mind to what is important to them to reflect their values.....I think it was a great success in all aspects."

Hayden Stanaway
Bayleys North Shore Real Estate

"We have been focused at Lion Nathan on behaviours and culture for many years. We believe that the behaviour of our leaders is a key driver in creating a culture which attracts and retains great people, and builds high engagement of those people within the business. Values AT Work have helped us work with our leaders to enable them to become clearer on their personal values, their preferences and priorities, and to align their behaviors/capabilities/environment with their values. We believe that leaders, who are clear on their values and live them, behave in constructive ways and help to create a constructive culture.  The outcome of this work is good for the business and good for the individuals themselves."

Bob Barbour
Group People & Culture Director
Lion Nathan Limited

"Working with Dougal and Michael was and is a pleasure; both went out of their way to explain, coach and teach both my business unit managers and myself through the process.  Dougal was highly rated by the Regional Managers as an engaging and knowledgeable presenter. Michael was very patient with me and my endless questions at the start of the process."

Andrea Johnson
Human Resources Consultant
ASB Bank

"The Stevenson Building Products team worked with Values AT Work to confirm the set of values that had been and will continue to be fundamental to the success of our Auckland-based family business. It was great to have an unbiased, but passionate facilitator of our values confirmation workshops, which helped us to create a very safe environment for people to share their thoughts and emotions and develop consensus around the company's core values. Our values are now embedded in all our people processes and the basic way we work with each other and are playing a key role in helping us keep our team together and maintain our focus as we transition to a new business owner over the next few months."

Claire Eeles
General Manager
Stevenson

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