HAUSKA & PARTNER CR REPORT
Based on the World Café outcome we have already managed to improve our workplace in two fields. First, we developed a detailed employee brochure that should help the newcomers more easily familiarize themselves with our way of doing business. This brochure also pro-
vides uniform guidelines with necessary information about our company, our policies and procedures. Second, since employees recognized diversity as one of our distinctive strengths, we have also added it to our values.
“The idea and concept of World Café were excellent. Out of everything in the last Academy, World Café was the best part. I think everybody was relaxed and managed to talk with their senior colleagues about current topics and possible open issues in an informal and
slightly amusing atmosphere. World Café was a pleasant surprise for everybody and it should be repeated at the following Academies.”
SHOULD WE NOT STRIVE TO BE BETTER THAN THE BEST? Hauska & Partner’s values, as we know them now, emerged as a result of the Corporate Identity/Values Workshop held at the Hauska & Partner Clausure in April 2005 as a part of an overall project activity that was listed in the CR strategy and program the year before.
Miroslav Brnjak, assistant in Hauska & Partner Croatia
The list of proposed values was a product of past values and the Hauska & Partner reality. In the same way they were instrumental to Hauska & Partner’s philosophy and strategy. The values proposed were excellence, reliability, contribution, passion (dedication) and diversity. In the process of verification and selection all value were selected by workshop participants except for one: the value of diversity.
The workshop was organized with the purpose of defining one of the fundamental elements of the Corporate Identity - our values. Prior to the workshop, all participants from Austria, Croatia and Serbia were given a brief paper in order to ensure that they all share the same or similar understanding of Corporate Identity elements and use the same vocabulary in workshop discussions.
Hauska & Partner values were again discussed in a wider forum at the Hauska & Partner Academy which was held in May 2006. In the World Café round-table discussion, one of the topics discussed was whether our values fit into our daily work. Participants underlined excellence and reliability as main the pillars of the Hauska & Partner corporate culture.
The brief paper laid down the Hauska & Partner values with their basic explanations and definitions. Some examples of practical implementation of values in daily work with our clients and business partners were also given.
They also placed special emphasis on diversity. As a consequence, this value was re-introduced as a Hauska & Partner value that enables us to equally appreciate our similarities and our differences.
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