1. Values Programme: Staff Focus Groups Sharan Virdee Values Programme Leader Equality and Diversity Advisor

2. Values Programme Staff Sessions: Presentation Outline  The Values Programme  Progress to date  The Heriot-Watt University Brand  Today’s session

3. Focus on the Future HEADLINES  Reshape and grow academic base by 50% in ten years  Fulfil ambition to be like a leading 1994 Group institution

4. People Theme Team SUMMARY  Established to ‘build staff capacity to meet the performance challenges of the strategic plan’ 4 projects: Values programme Development programme Staff survey Development framework

5.  Develop and embed a shared understanding of University core values (and associated behaviours) that help foster a supportive and inspiring learning and research environment Values Programme

6. Values Programme Methodology  Values Programme Workshop held April 2009  Staff Survey Questions  Focus Groups  Wider staff focus groups at Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campuses  Communication with Dubai and Orkney

7. Staff Survey VALUES VALUING PEOPLE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE NURTURING POTENTIAL FORWARD THINKING & FLEXIBLE SERVICE FOCUS COLLABORATION RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP COLLEGIALITY CREATING OPPORTUNITIES INTERNATIONALISATION

8. Staff Survey Feedback:  The values were difficult to rank – they were of equal importance and linked  There is a need to fully represent services and academia in any ‘values’  Student focus/student experience – is this explicit enough?  Some cynicism by respondents of Motherhood and Apple Pie statements

9. Staff Survey OVERALL VALUES RANKING - QUESTIONS  2 values came out as the most highly ranked:  Valuing People - over 50% rated this as the most important value  Over 30% rated Pursuit of Excellence as the 2 nd most important value  The other values were clustered together  The values needed further refining

10. Senior Management Focus Groups  4 Focus Groups held with Senior Management to consider the staff survey outcomes  The ranked values and comments used to further refine values  A new outline of 5 values produced – incorporating rankings, comments and feedback from the Staff Survey

11. Core Values: The Spirit of HWU  Pursuing Excellence  Valuing and Respecting Everyone  Pride and Belonging  Shaping the Future  Outward Looking

12. Purpose of the Session Bringing the Values to Life

13. The Heriot-Watt Brand  The Brand activity informs the Values  The Brand is expressed internally via the values  The Values enable the Brand come to life in all our activities

14. Today’s Session 1.What does each value mean to you? If this value was happening, what would it look like? 2.What would we not be doing? 3.What examples do you have of bringing the value to life?

15. Exercise  5 Tables  5 Values  5 Minutes

16. What happens next? A final outline of core values including:  What they are  What they mean  What they look like  How we make it happen