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We believe in sharing the knowledge and learnings we capture through our work with people and organisations across the health and social services sectors.
Our blog consists of thoughtful and practical content and insight across a range of topic areas that aims to better enable people and organisations to plan, design, implement and evaluate their work.
The Beacon Strategies Org Code - what is it and why have one?
An organisational code can be an effective way to help guide your org while directly relating to its strategic plan. Org codes are straightforward and use plain language to help guide your business on the everyday level. They are not the same as ‘staff values’ we are used to in traditional organisations.
Reviewing our Org Code — Principle #2: teams over individuals
Our org code #2 is “Teams over individuals: we value delivering ‘the work’ in teams. All of our people, when working together and within the right environment, can achieve greater things together than individually.” This is a code that resonates with our staff…
Reviewing our Org Code — Principle #1: Clients are the reason we exist
We recently reviewed our original wording for our organisation code #1 - Clients are the reason we exist. After some very interesting discussions with our team about their take on what this principle meant to them, we revised the wording to better reflect the diversity of understanding within the team.