AtKisson Inc. and the COMPASS Framework for Sustainability
Using several personal case studies from cities and regions in Australia, Michael Lunn presented the Compass framework for indicators that AtKisson Inc. has used for a decade with excellent results in communities, schools, and corporations. Compass is the tool for managing indicators and assessment, and the stakeholders who need them. 'North, East, South, West' become the memorable 'Nature, Economy, Society, Wellbeing' - sustainability’s compass. The process involves intensive multi-stakeholder dialogue, where values negotiation and learning to "speak each other's language" often play a crucial role. See powerpoint presentation (4mb).
"WeValue" for Businesses
Serge Thill of the European Baha'i Business Forum, an ESDinds partner, presented different ways in which the 'WE VALUE' concept of measuring values-based indicators might be extended from CSOs to business organizations. He addressed fundamental questions such as the place that values have in business today, and what businesses are seeking to achieve through values work, as well as more practical aspects of working with values in a business context. Finally, he discussed ways of securing the long-term effects of a values project in a business organization.
Illuminating Values Systems: Introducing Values Technology
Sara Wolcott and Leonard Joy noted that increasing recognition of the importance of values has led to a diverse range of definitions, uses and tools to measure values, all of which are useful. They introduced the Hall Tonna Values Technology as a useful conceptual framework and practical tool for measuring values that is successfully used in organisations from faith groups to businesses. They also considered the importance of a developmental perspective in working with values, and some of the important practical and ethical concerns for working with values, whichever system one uses. See powerpoint presentation (475kb).
Values and Behaviour in Organisations Under Stress
Jackie Le Fèvre illustrated how an appreciation of world view types and dominant values can be used to understand behaviour in organisations under stress, e.g. in merger situations or whole-organisation culture change programmes. She discussed what this means for shaping the approach taken by anyone in the organisational development/facilitator role, using the Minessence Values System as a framework.