City of Casey
City of Casey has been selected as an ABA100® Winner for Change Management in The Australian Business Awards 2022. The Australian Business Award for Change Management [CMA] recognises organisations that have successfully implemented initiatives that demonstrate excellence in change management.
“Evolve Home/Land was a unique project. While developing our Organisation and Transformation strategies, we saw the need to engage our people and did so in an innovative and creative way.
“In collaboration with internationally acclaimed artists Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, we created the Evolve Home/Land installation and virtual tour. Using 100 per cent recycled workplace sourced materials and in overcoming significant COVID related challenges, our Change Management and Arts and Cultural Development teams collaborated to facilitate remote and in-person workshops where employees from across the organisation created models and shared foresights that answered the question ‘how should our organisation evolve over the next five to ten years?’.
“The resulting conversations were inspiring, the models are amazing, and have come together to create a world class installation representing how the City of Casey, as an organisation, is evolving, while at the same time living our values of dreaming big, empowering each other and making our community proud.
“Winning this award demonstrates that that even if you have few resources and a relatively small budget, with some creative thinking, the passion and dedication of a small project team and the determination to overcome obstacles plus the willingness to take a risk, you can deliver leading practice and world class projects.”
Evolve Home/Land was a unique project.
While developing their new Organisation and Transformation strategies, the City of Casey saw the need to engage their people (employees) and did so in an innovative and creative way.
In collaboration with internationally acclaimed artists Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, they created the world class Evolve Home/Land installation and virtual tour.
Using 100 per cent recycled workplace sourced materials, the Change Management and Arts and Cultural Development teams collaborated to facilitate workshops where participants created models that answered the question ‘how should our organisation evolve over the next five to ten years?’.
Employees from across the organisation contributed by making a carboard model for the installation and sharing their foresights on how they wish to see their organisation evolve over the next five to ten years.
“Our world and communities are changing and we need to evolve with them to be here for them in the long term” says Jen Bednar, Director of Customer and Business Transformation, while CEO Glenn Patterson says the Evolve Home/Land engagement has been “a hugely impressive and valuable project”.
In overcoming significant COVID-19 obstacles by making the project remote working friendly, following a shared leadership philosophy and leading practice change management techniques, considering access needs (including working with Auslan interpreters), the team delivered far in excess of their objectives.
A tie into the health and wellbeing program provided reassurance that it was fine to work in this way.
The resulting conversations were inspiring, the models are amazing, and have come together to create a world class installation representing how the City of Casey, as an organisation, is evolving.
Everything about the project was 100 per cent recyclable, demonstrating that sustainability can be embedded into our operational work. That’s demonstrated in the form of the models and the value of our foresights that have informed and enriched the programs that are shaping our future.
Together we demonstrated that with a little creativity, ‘waste’ can be turned into strategic value.
For information about the City of Casey, visit casey.vic.gov.au