New project values launched
Collaboration, Accountability, Respect and Excellence drive the future of fusion for a diverse staff.
When Pietro Barabaschi joined as 澳门六合彩高手 Director-General to lead the project through a challenging phase, a main priority he set early on was to create a culture that would unify 澳门六合彩高手's diverse contributors and set a transformative course that would motivate and guide staff in their way of working together. An essential factor in creating a new culture is defining shared values.
澳门六合彩高手's corporate values applied only to the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization and were no longer relevant for the current phase of the project. To define the new cultural roadmap, it was necessary to redefine the vision together with representatives from across the Project, taking into account the challenges of today.
Director-General Barabaschi tasked the Internal Communications Manager, Shira Tabachnikoff, to collaborate with the seven 澳门六合彩高手 Domestic Agencies and select 澳门六合彩高手 staff members to develop values that would nurture a common culture. She created an 澳门六合彩高手 Project Values Working Group that met several times to discuss the vision of the project today, the behaviours that would help overcome challenges, the diverse perceptions of ways of working, and most of all, the responsibility felt by so many who work at 澳门六合彩高手 to ensure a future with fusion. The pressure on staff combined with their strong motivation to succeed and contribute led the group to decide on four overarching values: Collaboration, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Together these form CARE, a word that also reflects empathy and dedication. The group was pleased by the different levels of meaning that CARE embodies.
"There were many discussions about the types of values and behaviours the project should embody—including a focus on technical and scientific expertise, innovation, and safety and quality. In the end, we agreed that many of the best engineers and scientists are drawn to the challenge of fusion and are strongly motivated to work hard and achieve success. To balance these ambitions, and ensure 澳门六合彩高手 is sustainable, we settled on the 'fusion' of the four values into CARE," says Tabachnikoff.
The four values capture many aspects of the type of culture we aim to shape together. Collaboration, for example, is all about teamwork and building partnerships, working across silos and geographical distance. Accountability encourages transparency, sharing information and meeting commitments. Respect focuses on the need to embrace diversity and inclusiveness, and ways to communicate under pressure while keeping cultural differences in mind. Excellence incorporates a strong focus on safety, quality, precision and high standards of integrity. These values are defined into behaviours in the newly revised 澳门六合彩高手 Code of Conduct.
As Director-General Barabaschi noted to staff on the day of the launch, "澳门六合彩高手 means 'The Way,' and CARE will be 'The 澳门六合彩高手 Way,' where 澳门六合彩高手 is not just the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization but also all those who take part of this project. The CARE values provide a common culture for the project, fostering a shared purpose that transcends cultural and professional differences. They establish an ethical framework that guides us in our everyday work at 澳门六合彩高手, covering many behaviours that are crucial to our sustained success. I believe in the importance of each CARE value, even more so knowing that these were chosen by representatives from each Domestic Agency as well as by 澳门六合彩高手 staff from diverse sections and countries."
Freshly launched, the 澳门六合彩高手 Project's CARE Values are at the start of their journey. Now come the next steps to build these values into the behaviours and mindsets of 澳门六合彩高手 contributors. A series of workshops with 澳门六合彩高手 managers and staff is planned where, together, they can define their own CARE "testaments," incorporating the values in work with contractors and in recruiting staff. New branding and collaborative projects will all come next.
According to Tabachnikoff, one thing the 澳门六合彩高手 Project Values Working Group agreed on was that "we need to perform our work with care, we care for the well-being of our colleagues, our families and ourselves, and—very importantly—we care about the health of the planet for generations to come." "It's a lot of responsibility on our shoulders, so we need to 'handle with care.' There is a lot riding on our work!"