Description
Value The Person
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C
COMPANY BROCHURE
Value the Person International was formed in Europe by
Jim Cowan and Gavin Cargill in 1999. This “movement”
evolved from Value of the Person Consultancy set up by
Wayne Alderson in Pittsburgh, USA in 1974. This followed
the dramatic turnaround of an ailing steel plant in
Pennsylvania, using the “Value the Person” principles.
Value the Person is a global management consultancy
business, a training and development company, a people
assessement business and a registered charity in the UK
and Albania.
Value the Person has a vision to see every person, every
organisation, every community and every country adopting
a Value the Person ethos and experiencing a different
kind of culture that maximises everyone’s contribution.
This fresh mission required a new set of tools and new
approaches to identify individual talent, develop leaders
and maximise individual and team performance. To help
us, we ensure that our practices are underpinned by the
latest research findings on personal and organisational
development.
The Mission
Value the Person’s mission is to help people become great leaders,
great managers, help individuals achieve their sustained personal
success and teams maximise their potential.
The Aims and the Approach
How do we do it?
We do this by helping leaders and managers develop themselves,
their organisations, their teams and individuals, by giving them:
• The keys to identifying their talents and the talents of others.
• The knowledge to create a great team and a great organisation.
• The skills and knowledge to be a great leader.
• The knowledge and techniques to be a great manager.
• The approach to effectively manage themselves and their available
time.
• Models to gain and sustain peoples’ proactive contribution to
changing and improving an organisation.
• The necessary system to select people who will actively contribute
to the success of the organisation and to be fully motivated in the
role for which they were selected.
Our approach in all that we do is to promote a Value the Person culture,
developing a different kind of self-propelled workforce by creating a
different kind of leader, manager, team and organisation.
We impart the skills and knowledge of selecting, growing and inspiring
people to create this different kind of workplace culture that maximises
productivity and motivates people to give extroadinary performance
each day.
The Experience of being Valued
We have always passionately believed that to value the
person was the right thing to do.
Now we can demonstrate from independent evidence,
from extensive research such as that undertaken by the
Gallup Organisation, that customer satisfaction, profits,
productivity, employee loyalty and safety can only be
sustained in an environment where the experience of
being valued is real and embedded in the culture.
From Silicon Valley in California to post-communist
Albania, from the financial institutions of the UK to
war-torn Rwanda the message is the same; “The need
to experience being valued is at the core of all success,
growth and reconciliation”.
“Only the person who recieves the experience of being valued can sustain success.”
Principles
The journey towards Value the Person as a reality
in a business, an organisation, a community, a family
or an individual life always starts with change.
Our aim is to provide a compass to help others
change, grow and be engaged at work to achieve
personal fulfilment. [ ‘To be engaged’ means to be
focused in channeling all your available efforts and
talents into what you’re doing.]
The four points of this compass are contained in the
following principles through which individuals,
organisations and communities can achieve
fulfilment and their destiny.
“Four key principles
underpinning all we do...”
Everyone is unique and we are fulfilled when we
maximise the use of our talents.
Everyone is capable of being a leader since leadership
is about influencing people positively and we are all
capable of this.
Great leaders ‘engage’ people because they realise
engaged people are the most productive.
We are born with talent but our character is a question
of choice. Since sustained success is a question of
character and talent, we need to develop character as
well as our talent to be successful.
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Each of our brains is designed differently and, therefore, we
are only really happy when we are doing the things for which
we were programmed.
This principle states that, if we are to realise our potential, experience
personal success and maximise our contribution to what we do, we
must identify what our unique talents are.
In order to maximise the contribution of a person in an organisation,
leaders must seek to match people to jobs for which they are suited.
Principle 1
Uniqueness
This principle states that everyone can be a great leader
because leadership is about influencing people positively.
Although we may never be the next Martin Luther King, we
can all learn how to influence the people within our given
circle of colleagues, friends, family, etc. because “leadership is not
a position occupied but an influence exercised.”
Principle 2
Research tells us that, because they are operating in an
environment where they are experiencing being valued,
engaged people give their best and operate at
maximum productivity levels. Productivity, customer
satisfaction, profit, employee morale, safety and quality
outputs are all directly linked to ‘engagement’.
As great leaders and managers intuitively know, this principle
states that it’s engaged people that make the difference
between good performance and great performance
Principle 3
Engagement
Success is not just about releasing talent, great leadership, and
engaged people. It is also about making the right choices.
Individuals that make a difference have character, that is, act
with integrity and, even in the most difficult times, do the right
thing, have a positive attitude and exercise self-discipline.
Principle 4
Character
Mentoring & Coaching
Talent Development
Business & Management Development
Talent-fit Recruitment & Selection
Employee Engagement & Motivation
Business Transformation
Change Management
Management Succession Planning
Small Business Development
Value the Person
Services
*Value the Person builds relationships with clients and customises our approach.
Value the Person has for many years worked in the Middle East, helping clients such as Shankland Cox (Architects) develop
their leaders,their structure and their culture, in line with the Value the Person principles:
“Over the years we have developed a thoroughly efective relationship with Value the Person, as they have gone the extra mile to
help us
grow our business, by re-structuring our organisation, developing our managers and a Value the Person culture.”
Phil Logan, MD, Shankland Cox Limited - Third biggest architectural practice in the Middle East.
* Value the Person transcends geographical and cultural boundaries.
“Jim Cowan (Chairman, Value the Person International) worked in the GDR (Germany) to help us adopt a more
people-centred culture that has facilitated our growth into a global environmental consultancy business. His
approach was about building personal relationships with our key managers and was customised to take account
of our history and our organisational strengths. Today we are reaping the business rewards of this signifcant work.”
Dr Volker Ermisch and Dr Norbert Meinert, Joint MDs of HGN GmbH
“Our relationship over the last two years with Value the Person is not a typical client – consultant relationship but a
personal one. They have been instrumental in helping us take a new look at how we enhance the bottom line.
With their help, we are developing our people to maximise their motivation and talents, and our culture to give us
sustainable future success.”
Mr Mike Sparks, Chairman, GMD Limited - Car Sales.
“We are a small business in a small corner of the UK and so we have been amazed that the Value the Person
principles and their focus on our people, that they apply so efectively in large international businesses, have
been so helpful in developing and growing our small business, our senior management team and our key people.”
Seamus Carmichael, MD, Silotank Limited.
* Value the Person helps companies, big or small, enhance their performance by focusing on their people’s contribution.
“Value the Person has for many years worked in Northern Ireland, helping companies such as ours, Lagan Holdings, to develop
their leaders, their culture and, most importantly, to help them bring commercial success. We are grateful to
Value the Person for their partnership over these many years.”
Michael Lagan, Group MD, Lagan Holdings.
“We in the Tirana Muncipality are grateful to our friends in Value the Person who have worked in Albania to transform our
capital city’s municipality into a more efcient and efective organisation by helping us to move to a Value the Person culture
and by developing our key leaders.”
Edi Rama, Mayor of Tirana, Albania (Voted City Mayor of the World 2005 and leader of the Socialist
Party of Albania.)
“The IoD has continually encouraged members to adopt people-centred cultures as the best means to
achieve lasting success. This is not the easiest way of achieving success - but it is the most sustainable!
And, of course, we try to take our own medicine! - “Value the Person” principles and ideas have helped
me to think of new ways to grow and develop teams, one person at a time!”
Mr Jonathan Cummins, Marketing Director, The Institute of Directors (UK)
Gavin Cargill - Co-founder and Director, Value the Person International
Gavin Cargill is co-founder of Value the Person International and has operated in the area of employee motivation. Gavin is a much
sought after motivational speaker, seminar leader, conference facilitator, mentor and coach. For many years Gavin has very successfully
bridged the divide between the corporate world and the not-for-proft sector. For example, he has been guest speaker at national
events, such as, Scottish Mutual annual event, Countrywide Investments annual sales conference, PIMS International, Finance
Directors UK Forum, and the National Association of Hospice Management.
Professor Ken O’Neill - Chairman, Value the Person Training and Development Company
A world-renowned expert in entrepreneurial leadership development and small businesses, Ken is currently Professor of
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development at the University of Ulster, where he has played a central role over many years in
the expansion of the university’s pioneering activities in these felds, with particular emphasis on management training and
development for owner-managers. Ken is the author and editor of numerous books, has extensive international consultancy
experience and is the frst person to have been awarded the Queen’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
Professor David Johnson - Commerical and Social Entrepreneusip , Leadership and Personal De velopment Specialist
David is a Chartered Psychologist who is renowned for his unique ability to ‘build bridges between the worlds of psychology and business’. He
was the founding Director of the highly innovative Barclays Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Universi ty of Durham, U.K. and has worked
closely with the British Government and the European Commission on the promotion of entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation at all
levels. David is a well-respected coach to senior managers, executives and executive teams, with interests in commercial and social
entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development.
Tony Foster - Senior Value the Person Consultant
Tony has many years commercial experience at the head of professional organisations. As a Senior Consultant, Tony has contributed to the
Value the Person business for many years. Our clients appreciate his vast commercial experience, his skills in mentoring and coaching senior
executives, and his considerable expertise in re-structuring organisations to enhance effectiveness and commercial performance.
Professor Richar d Harrison - Organisational De velopment Specialist
Richard is Management and Research Director at the School of Management and Economics at Queen's University Belfast. He has also
taught business strategy and entrepreneurship in Argentina and China. His core research interests include entrepreneurial finance,
particularly venture capital and informal venture capital, organisational learning and knowledge management, and technology transfer
and academic entrepreneurship.
Dr Anto ny Campolo - President , Value the Person International
Tony Campolo, professor emeritus at Eastern University, is a world-renowned speaker whose bright and humorous style has lead him to many
guest appearances in the mass media, including The Mike Douglas Show and Good Morning America. He has also provided spiritual guidance
to President Clinton and is the founder of an organisation that develops schools and social programmes in various third world countries and in
cities across North America. He is the author of many best sellers, his most recent being Speaking My Mind. Dr Campolo is a regular speaker at
US Value the Person events, explaining how the Value the Person principles and concepts apply as much in the home as in the workplace.
Jill Garrett - Leadership Specialist
Jill Garrett is currently Director of Leadership Development at Caret's Consultants and is one of the foremost authorities on leadership
development. She works with national and international leaders in business, the church, voluntary and government organisations. Her
passion is to enable others to recognise and realise more of their potential. In partnership with the DTI, Jill has been the lead researcher
and designer of the Inspirational Leadership tool to help leaders to give effective organisational leadership. During her previous career
Jill has been Managing Director of the Gallup Organization.
Engage with us
Our approach is to tailor our offerings to the needs of
individuals and businesses.
We are not primarily a product-led organisation but do
recognise that the ‘short course or intervention’ is
appropriate at various times. Our offerings vary from
client to client and programmes can range from half-day
to three-days, either in-house or on an open basis.
We believe that, typically, staff development challenges
progress along a continuum. These challenges can range
from increased awareness to knowledge acquisition and
skills development, through to behavioural change and
cultural re-orientation. Effective learning requires a range
of delivery methods at various stages of the development
process using talks, seminars, courses, mentoring and coaching.
Expressions of interest are followed up by our staff or our
partners/associates to enable us to fully understand their
requirements and agree a customised approach to tackle
their issues, and to assess their expected outcomes.
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Value The Person
C
L
C
COMPANY BROCHURE
Value the Person International was formed in Europe by
Jim Cowan and Gavin Cargill in 1999. This “movement”
evolved from Value of the Person Consultancy set up by
Wayne Alderson in Pittsburgh, USA in 1974. This followed
the dramatic turnaround of an ailing steel plant in
Pennsylvania, using the “Value the Person” principles.
Value the Person is a global management consultancy
business, a training and development company, a people
assessement business and a registered charity in the UK
and Albania.
Value the Person has a vision to see every person, every
organisation, every community and every country adopting
a Value the Person ethos and experiencing a different
kind of culture that maximises everyone’s contribution.
This fresh mission required a new set of tools and new
approaches to identify individual talent, develop leaders
and maximise individual and team performance. To help
us, we ensure that our practices are underpinned by the
latest research findings on personal and organisational
development.
The Mission
Value the Person’s mission is to help people become great leaders,
great managers, help individuals achieve their sustained personal
success and teams maximise their potential.
The Aims and the Approach
How do we do it?
We do this by helping leaders and managers develop themselves,
their organisations, their teams and individuals, by giving them:
• The keys to identifying their talents and the talents of others.
• The knowledge to create a great team and a great organisation.
• The skills and knowledge to be a great leader.
• The knowledge and techniques to be a great manager.
• The approach to effectively manage themselves and their available
time.
• Models to gain and sustain peoples’ proactive contribution to
changing and improving an organisation.
• The necessary system to select people who will actively contribute
to the success of the organisation and to be fully motivated in the
role for which they were selected.
Our approach in all that we do is to promote a Value the Person culture,
developing a different kind of self-propelled workforce by creating a
different kind of leader, manager, team and organisation.
We impart the skills and knowledge of selecting, growing and inspiring
people to create this different kind of workplace culture that maximises
productivity and motivates people to give extroadinary performance
each day.
The Experience of being Valued
We have always passionately believed that to value the
person was the right thing to do.
Now we can demonstrate from independent evidence,
from extensive research such as that undertaken by the
Gallup Organisation, that customer satisfaction, profits,
productivity, employee loyalty and safety can only be
sustained in an environment where the experience of
being valued is real and embedded in the culture.
From Silicon Valley in California to post-communist
Albania, from the financial institutions of the UK to
war-torn Rwanda the message is the same; “The need
to experience being valued is at the core of all success,
growth and reconciliation”.
“Only the person who recieves the experience of being valued can sustain success.”
Principles
The journey towards Value the Person as a reality
in a business, an organisation, a community, a family
or an individual life always starts with change.
Our aim is to provide a compass to help others
change, grow and be engaged at work to achieve
personal fulfilment. [ ‘To be engaged’ means to be
focused in channeling all your available efforts and
talents into what you’re doing.]
The four points of this compass are contained in the
following principles through which individuals,
organisations and communities can achieve
fulfilment and their destiny.
“Four key principles
underpinning all we do...”
Everyone is unique and we are fulfilled when we
maximise the use of our talents.
Everyone is capable of being a leader since leadership
is about influencing people positively and we are all
capable of this.
Great leaders ‘engage’ people because they realise
engaged people are the most productive.
We are born with talent but our character is a question
of choice. Since sustained success is a question of
character and talent, we need to develop character as
well as our talent to be successful.
1
Ev Eve
2
Eve Eve
i b i b
3
Gre Grea
4
We We a
of cc
Each of our brains is designed differently and, therefore, we
are only really happy when we are doing the things for which
we were programmed.
This principle states that, if we are to realise our potential, experience
personal success and maximise our contribution to what we do, we
must identify what our unique talents are.
In order to maximise the contribution of a person in an organisation,
leaders must seek to match people to jobs for which they are suited.
Principle 1
Uniqueness
This principle states that everyone can be a great leader
because leadership is about influencing people positively.
Although we may never be the next Martin Luther King, we
can all learn how to influence the people within our given
circle of colleagues, friends, family, etc. because “leadership is not
a position occupied but an influence exercised.”
Principle 2
Research tells us that, because they are operating in an
environment where they are experiencing being valued,
engaged people give their best and operate at
maximum productivity levels. Productivity, customer
satisfaction, profit, employee morale, safety and quality
outputs are all directly linked to ‘engagement’.
As great leaders and managers intuitively know, this principle
states that it’s engaged people that make the difference
between good performance and great performance
Principle 3
Engagement
Success is not just about releasing talent, great leadership, and
engaged people. It is also about making the right choices.
Individuals that make a difference have character, that is, act
with integrity and, even in the most difficult times, do the right
thing, have a positive attitude and exercise self-discipline.
Principle 4
Character
Mentoring & Coaching
Talent Development
Business & Management Development
Talent-fit Recruitment & Selection
Employee Engagement & Motivation
Business Transformation
Change Management
Management Succession Planning
Small Business Development
Value the Person
Services
*Value the Person builds relationships with clients and customises our approach.
Value the Person has for many years worked in the Middle East, helping clients such as Shankland Cox (Architects) develop
their leaders,their structure and their culture, in line with the Value the Person principles:
“Over the years we have developed a thoroughly efective relationship with Value the Person, as they have gone the extra mile to
help us
grow our business, by re-structuring our organisation, developing our managers and a Value the Person culture.”
Phil Logan, MD, Shankland Cox Limited - Third biggest architectural practice in the Middle East.
* Value the Person transcends geographical and cultural boundaries.
“Jim Cowan (Chairman, Value the Person International) worked in the GDR (Germany) to help us adopt a more
people-centred culture that has facilitated our growth into a global environmental consultancy business. His
approach was about building personal relationships with our key managers and was customised to take account
of our history and our organisational strengths. Today we are reaping the business rewards of this signifcant work.”
Dr Volker Ermisch and Dr Norbert Meinert, Joint MDs of HGN GmbH
“Our relationship over the last two years with Value the Person is not a typical client – consultant relationship but a
personal one. They have been instrumental in helping us take a new look at how we enhance the bottom line.
With their help, we are developing our people to maximise their motivation and talents, and our culture to give us
sustainable future success.”
Mr Mike Sparks, Chairman, GMD Limited - Car Sales.
“We are a small business in a small corner of the UK and so we have been amazed that the Value the Person
principles and their focus on our people, that they apply so efectively in large international businesses, have
been so helpful in developing and growing our small business, our senior management team and our key people.”
Seamus Carmichael, MD, Silotank Limited.
* Value the Person helps companies, big or small, enhance their performance by focusing on their people’s contribution.
“Value the Person has for many years worked in Northern Ireland, helping companies such as ours, Lagan Holdings, to develop
their leaders, their culture and, most importantly, to help them bring commercial success. We are grateful to
Value the Person for their partnership over these many years.”
Michael Lagan, Group MD, Lagan Holdings.
“We in the Tirana Muncipality are grateful to our friends in Value the Person who have worked in Albania to transform our
capital city’s municipality into a more efcient and efective organisation by helping us to move to a Value the Person culture
and by developing our key leaders.”
Edi Rama, Mayor of Tirana, Albania (Voted City Mayor of the World 2005 and leader of the Socialist
Party of Albania.)
“The IoD has continually encouraged members to adopt people-centred cultures as the best means to
achieve lasting success. This is not the easiest way of achieving success - but it is the most sustainable!
And, of course, we try to take our own medicine! - “Value the Person” principles and ideas have helped
me to think of new ways to grow and develop teams, one person at a time!”
Mr Jonathan Cummins, Marketing Director, The Institute of Directors (UK)
Gavin Cargill - Co-founder and Director, Value the Person International
Gavin Cargill is co-founder of Value the Person International and has operated in the area of employee motivation. Gavin is a much
sought after motivational speaker, seminar leader, conference facilitator, mentor and coach. For many years Gavin has very successfully
bridged the divide between the corporate world and the not-for-proft sector. For example, he has been guest speaker at national
events, such as, Scottish Mutual annual event, Countrywide Investments annual sales conference, PIMS International, Finance
Directors UK Forum, and the National Association of Hospice Management.
Professor Ken O’Neill - Chairman, Value the Person Training and Development Company
A world-renowned expert in entrepreneurial leadership development and small businesses, Ken is currently Professor of
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development at the University of Ulster, where he has played a central role over many years in
the expansion of the university’s pioneering activities in these felds, with particular emphasis on management training and
development for owner-managers. Ken is the author and editor of numerous books, has extensive international consultancy
experience and is the frst person to have been awarded the Queen’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
Professor David Johnson - Commerical and Social Entrepreneusip , Leadership and Personal De velopment Specialist
David is a Chartered Psychologist who is renowned for his unique ability to ‘build bridges between the worlds of psychology and business’. He
was the founding Director of the highly innovative Barclays Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Universi ty of Durham, U.K. and has worked
closely with the British Government and the European Commission on the promotion of entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation at all
levels. David is a well-respected coach to senior managers, executives and executive teams, with interests in commercial and social
entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development.
Tony Foster - Senior Value the Person Consultant
Tony has many years commercial experience at the head of professional organisations. As a Senior Consultant, Tony has contributed to the
Value the Person business for many years. Our clients appreciate his vast commercial experience, his skills in mentoring and coaching senior
executives, and his considerable expertise in re-structuring organisations to enhance effectiveness and commercial performance.
Professor Richar d Harrison - Organisational De velopment Specialist
Richard is Management and Research Director at the School of Management and Economics at Queen's University Belfast. He has also
taught business strategy and entrepreneurship in Argentina and China. His core research interests include entrepreneurial finance,
particularly venture capital and informal venture capital, organisational learning and knowledge management, and technology transfer
and academic entrepreneurship.
Dr Anto ny Campolo - President , Value the Person International
Tony Campolo, professor emeritus at Eastern University, is a world-renowned speaker whose bright and humorous style has lead him to many
guest appearances in the mass media, including The Mike Douglas Show and Good Morning America. He has also provided spiritual guidance
to President Clinton and is the founder of an organisation that develops schools and social programmes in various third world countries and in
cities across North America. He is the author of many best sellers, his most recent being Speaking My Mind. Dr Campolo is a regular speaker at
US Value the Person events, explaining how the Value the Person principles and concepts apply as much in the home as in the workplace.
Jill Garrett - Leadership Specialist
Jill Garrett is currently Director of Leadership Development at Caret's Consultants and is one of the foremost authorities on leadership
development. She works with national and international leaders in business, the church, voluntary and government organisations. Her
passion is to enable others to recognise and realise more of their potential. In partnership with the DTI, Jill has been the lead researcher
and designer of the Inspirational Leadership tool to help leaders to give effective organisational leadership. During her previous career
Jill has been Managing Director of the Gallup Organization.
Engage with us
Our approach is to tailor our offerings to the needs of
individuals and businesses.
We are not primarily a product-led organisation but do
recognise that the ‘short course or intervention’ is
appropriate at various times. Our offerings vary from
client to client and programmes can range from half-day
to three-days, either in-house or on an open basis.
We believe that, typically, staff development challenges
progress along a continuum. These challenges can range
from increased awareness to knowledge acquisition and
skills development, through to behavioural change and
cultural re-orientation. Effective learning requires a range
of delivery methods at various stages of the development
process using talks, seminars, courses, mentoring and coaching.
Expressions of interest are followed up by our staff or our
partners/associates to enable us to fully understand their
requirements and agree a customised approach to tackle
their issues, and to assess their expected outcomes.
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