Monday 1st January 2007, 15:51What’s next for Improving Peoples Lives? What’s next for Improving Peoples Lives?
Christmas and New Year are always a time for reflection and this year I have been thinking of our vision “Improving Peoples Lives” and how we can develop new services to meet the needs of the world in which we live. Also how can we enter new markets in which we can deliver these services?
I have been asked why we want to grow the business, why do we want to win more contracts, why don't we just settle down to running A4e the way it is, surely we are big enough already?
A4e exists in the body of staff and partners who we work with, who all share a common thread. This thread binds us together. Although we come from many different backgrounds and cultures, although our religious beliefs differ and our homes are in different countries we have a shared common thread that brings us together. We all wish to “Improve Peoples Lives”. Our job satisfaction is driven by our ability to influence the way Governments seek to deliver this agenda and how we can work with Governments delivering programmes.
Therefore, I never see growth as a simple financial target but rather as the output of “Improving Peoples Lives” agenda. Yes we want to turnover £500 million by 2014 but the reason is that this will translate into our ability to impact of millions of peoples lives every day. Each contract we hold enables us to take this vision to a new group of people, or a new service to an existing customer base. Each time we develop new services it is on the back of research we have undertaken to see where the gaps are in the current provision and finding the places where “people fall through”, where people in our communities get left behind, forgotten and they start to see themselves apart from society rather than a part of society.
In many parts of our company we deliver services to adults aged between 16 – 65 years of age. We have contracts in Poland, Israel, UK, Germany and France. We are doing so much with this client group and in these countries but what else needs to be done?
How can we work more with younger people to change their start in life, to bring opportunity and choice and hope to their future?
How can we enable government to respond to our society as we live longer lives, need more health services and grapple with the need to stretch our finances further into the future with a patchwork of pension provision?
And more adventurously perhaps, how can we move from the position of Improving Peoples Lives which is often seen as something that should be done to people who find themselves at rock bottom in society to a vision which is applicable to all of us. How can we start a revolution of “Improving Peoples Lives” that applies to me, and you, and you and the whole of society? An agenda of Improving People’s Lives that lifts the base point for society, raises the whole of our game, motivates all of us to look at skills, health, finances, housing, education, safety, social services and families. Something that goes beyond a noxious “how can we improve “their” life, to a vision that seeks to Improve All Our Lives?
Let me know your ideas and thoughts, can you see a gap in society, can you see the hole in the fence where people are slipping though and being left behind? Do you have ideas about the way we can all share the Improvement vision and take a personal action plan to lift ourselves?
I am looking forward to hearing your ideas and taking them forward with you in 2007.
Roy
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