As you might remember Carrical recently hosted a group from Medibank’s Leadership training program. It was a spectacular day that saw 18 emerging Medibank leaders being taken out of their comfort zone by being placed into Carrical for half a day to learn about a different aspect of society. The day concluded with Amanda and me talking to the group at length.
The feedback from the day is worth sharing with you all – 5 major points:
1. Servants clearly does what it says on the tin.
2. They admired our creative view on solving problems/raising awareness for issues close to our hearts.
3. Our bad days our worse than theirs, apparently! They will never moan again, apparently, having heard some of our stories!
4. They were astonished that we ordered a review of our difficult time at Canterbury. In their experience it was far more common to excuse themselves from cock-ups and sweep problems under the carpet rather then learning from your mistakes.
5. The belief we have in educating young people to make decisions as to how the vulnerable of our society will be cared for in the future; it was the element of ‘seed sowing’ that really impressed them.
We have since entertained 7 folks from Medibank for their Volunteer Day. This day was also a raging success as we looked to see where Servants and Medibank could work collaboratively together.
Hi Matt,
This is a great feedback from Medicare and a credit to you and the team. It is encouraging to continue to hear how the Servants model ‘gets’ to people and how God is using it to help them to review their lives and the world and start to see things differently. Long may it continue!
Stephen
I am encouraged by point 4. in particular, I think the review has paid significant dividends already, will remind us not to get too cocky, and reflects well on our maturity and culture.