Several weeks in the making, our organisational values are now available as a sticker sheet. My colleague Daphne went back and forth with me and Fabian and Sonja, the 2 colleagues in the lead for the work. To get to these, Daphne made several sketches for each of the 6 values. We tested them, incorporated the feedback and have them in various formats: physical stickers, virtual stickers for Google Slides and Miro, and Slack emojis. Daphne had to strip them of details and boil them down further to work in the smallest size. She is still working on more detailed versions of the illustrations for an office poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colleagues embraced the stickers immediately. Especially the Slack mini version gained instant popularity. The values are mentioned on the career page, are evaluated in interviews and are considered in the upcoming autumn feedback cycle, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next up is a large A1 or A0 poster for our office space. Daphne is just finishing those. They come with short explanations of what\u2019s behind each value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These values change some conversations and give certain activities a more stable ground. The weeknotes I write every week or so are linked to our value \u2018Open by default\u2019. And me asking critical questions about the status quo of German government is rooted in the value \u2018Care to challenge\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given a related objective for the quarter, I\u2019m not standing still on Service Standard-related things. I moved some small but useful things along this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we published our first 2 self-reports about a month ago, I was not satisfied with how some information was shown there, but it was more important to get them out. Better done than perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We made sketches of how especially the overview information on how well each of the 19 points is met is displayed. Supported by external developers, Daphne, David, and I got our desired design improvements implemented. The reports for both services have been updated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After reviewing the templates used by our Australian<\/a> and British colleagues<\/a>, we took what we saw and pushed it further to suit our needs. As the German Service Standard has 6 sections, we structured the template accordingly. The status of each point is indicated through a colour-coded label. Clicking any points leads to the related details with a short bullet-pointed overview and further explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n