What does the culture of an organisation look like? Sometimes it’s hard to put your finger on it, because it seems to be more like a gut feeling you get when you wake up in the morning…. “I just can’t wait to get to work to do the things I love doing” … or, “oh dear, it’s another day at the salt mines”.
At Baptistcare we want to try and put our finger on the pulse of the organisation so that we have the ability to take whatever steps are required to ensure that our culture continues to be healthy into the future. To achieve that we will be running a culture survey. In the next few days and weeks you will be hearing a lot more about this and I encourage you to find out about it and become involved. It’s a way that every person in Baptistcare can contribute to their workplace.
In my recent blogs I’ve spent time talking about person-centredness which we believe is an important part of our culture. One of our initiatives in Baptistcare has been the person-centred review committee which acts a bit like a watchdog to help us in achieving these goals. Recently we invited Kerry Allan-Zinner on to this committee as a community representative.
I am thrilled to say that last week Kerry’s business, Another Angle Consulting and Training, won the Karl Farrell Inspiration Business Award at the Belmont Small Business Awards. This is a great achievement, and I encourage you to look at Kerry’s website http://www.anotherangle.com.au/ , to get an understanding of how inspirational she is as a business-person and a leader. Congratulations Kerry.
Hi Rob, I hope we can make sure we include our many staff that are not on the Baptistcare email network for their input to the survey. Many of the community staff are working in the field without computers, but do have mobile phones and attend staff meetings, so maybe we can use alternative means of encouraging them to participate.....Rick Birch
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