Valuing people: plain text
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From: Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
- Published on: 2 April 2025
- Last updated on: 14 May 2025
- Purposeful work
- Humanity
- Developing others
- Supporting managers
- Enabling voice
- Promoting wellbeing
- Recognising others
Creating a shared purpose and enabling people development, voice and wellbeing
Purposeful work
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Understand the purpose of your work and how it aligns to your own sense of purpose
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand:
Build a sense of team spirit and purpose
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Validate the meaning and purpose of work to lead, motivate and inspire people to understand the alignment to their own sense of purpose
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Inspire others and influence leaders to share the broad meaning and purpose of self and work
Humanity
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Value people and empathise with others
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand:
Value people and treat them fairly and considerately in your work
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Demonstrate a person centred approach through compassion, humanity and fairness
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Model a person centred approach through compassion, humanity and fairness as a leader
Developing others
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Support others to develop and be their best
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand:
Enable others to develop skills and capabilities to be their best at work
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Enable managers and leaders to support others to be their best at work
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Promote and encourage career-long learning to build organisation capability and benefit society
Supporting managers
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Advise colleagues and line managers
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand:
Coach and advise others in the business
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Coach, advise and build people management capability in the organisation
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Create and influence a culture of accountability for people management in the organisation
Enabling voice
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Ask people for their opinion and listen carefully to responses
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand:
Enable people to have a voice and actively listen when designing and delivering solutions which impact them
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Enable people to have a meaningful voice by actively listening and involving them in decisions that impact them, and bring a people perspective to organisation decision-making
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Strive to create an organisation culture that puts people at the center, by giving them a genuine voice and integrating these perspectives into organisation change
Promoting wellbeing
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Look after your own wellbeing and consider the wellbeing of others
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand
Take into account your own and others' wellbeing in the design and delivery of work
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Role model wellbeing and promote the business and people benefits of wellbeing and the need for shared responsibility
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Engage and influence leaders and stakeholders in proactively role modelling, creating and sustaining a culture of wellbeing
Recognising others
Level 1: At this level you’ll understand:
Thank others for their support and contribution
Level 2: At this level you’ll understand:
Ensure others are recognised for their contributions
Level 3: At this level you’ll understand:
Recognise others' contributions and share successes across the organisation
Level 4: At this level you’ll understand:
Create an environment where praise and recognition is positively embraced