OIC Staff Values - Video with Chief Executive Oliver Reid

In the Spring, we launched our set of five working values for staff - and work has been underway since then to make them a key part of our daily working lives.

The values were created as part of ‘Our People Our Plan’ our ongoing programme of internal improvement, aimed at providing a clear focus for the organisation and making us an employer of choice.

Put simply, our staff values are the principles that will provide us with purpose and direction and help manage our interactions with the public and amongst ourselves. They should guide the way in which you and your colleagues conduct yourselves.

Going forward the values that we see guiding our staff are -

• People: We put our colleagues and our communities at the heart of everything we do.
• Unity: We are one Council and achieve more when we support, encourage and value each other.
• Trust: We trust, respect and empower each other and act with honesty and integrity.
• Ownership: We take personal and shared responsibility, are transparent, and are accountable for our actions and our impact.
• Creativity: We embrace innovative solutions with a drive to improve ways of working.

Everybody at this organisation - whatever your job - will have a role to play in ensuring these values become part of everything we do – and as the Corporate Leadership team we are looking forward to the future, working alongside staff to embed these values.

This week, we're launching a set of videos describing the values - the first of these features our Chief Executive, Oliver Reid.

You can view Oliver's video here In the video Oliver talks about the importance of values to our organisation and how and why the five values were settled on. We'll be following up through the rest of the week, with videos from the five Corporate Directors.

More news will follow soon on how the values will become a common part of key processes like your team meetings, staff induction, recruitment to the organisation and your annual employee review meeting with your manager – watch this space!

Kind regards

Karen Greaves BEM, Corporate Director

Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions

Orkney Islands Council