Search Conferences
Tuning In To You
As a part of the process of working with you we will inevitably get to know the workings of your organisation and an “insight” into your culture. This begins with our Search Conference strategy in which we engage in both formal and informal dialogue in key areas of the organisation, with key personnel and through chats with folk at morning tea, team meetings and other natural gatherings.
Consequently, our work is uniquely tailored to mesh with existing local organisational culture and very importantly, to build on the body of environmental achievement which already exists within an organisation.
Kickstarting Promotion
This process also starts to “do the work”. The Search Conferences invariably get a buzz going throughout the organisation that something new/interesting is happening. Most importantly, it creates a sense that the program is being built from the grassroots up rather than being imposed top down.
& Giving Feedback to You
Through our interaction with your organisation and especially Search Conferencing, we work toward providing affirmation of your practices and innovative suggestions to enhance your policies and behaviours. We do this based on vast experience manifesting sustainability within organisations.
Outcomes ...
• enables us to tune in to your culture, expectations, language, values and practices
• allows us to learn important corporate, reporting and organisation structural matters
• provides the opportunity to research both corporate and individual achievements to date
• a focus on harvesting the sometimes untapped ideas of people working at the coalface and an ability to make assessments on the best methods of promoting program ownership and outcomes.
• a chance to test whether there is a sense among staff that the practice matches the rhetoric, whether people feel able to participate in stated corporate values and sustainability objectives.
NB: Comprehensive culture research and number crunching, is another brief.
We have experience, background and training in social research and community evaluation including multiple regression analysis. While our Search Conference process is informed by this background, it is however, quite intentionally less rigorous and formal. It’s major purpose is to “tune us in” to local terminology, feelings about the organisation’s values, ideas among staff which might otherwise be overlooked, etc.
However, if you wish to gain quantified, scientifically surveyed research data into your culture with regard to sustainability, we have partner firms who specialise in that.
For our training purposes, in the past, such data has basically reflected what we have (skilfully but) instinctively deduced.
Nonetheless, formal research data can provide invaluable tools for management to appraise and gain insight into organisational structure relationships and practice, if it is felt that aspects here are retarding the achievement of a sustainability focused culture.
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