The Walton Group helps companies, community organisations and government agencies build strong governance systems based on cultures of clear values and individual understanding and responsibility. The Walton Group works in Australia and internationally from the base in Sydney.  

HOW THE WLTON GROUP WORK
The Walton Group works with you and your people to build fundamental alignment between values, performance and overall corporate objectives, ensuring maximum business benefit for your investment in corporate governance.

This approach provides strong foundations for building, growing and sustaining business performance.

Your organisation is best served when everyone has appropriate judgement skills. A key governance objective of The Walton Group is always to grow people’s thinking skills and the rigour with which a problem is approached.

The core belief is that both people and organisations perform better when all the human capital is unlocked to bring all parts of themselves to their work, to make meaning, as well as money.

Leadership from the top is essential, but it is not sufficient. Leadership is also needed at strategic points throughout your organisation.

For this reason, The Walton Group’s value-based approach, plants and grows the seeds of ethical leadership and thinking skills throughout the whole organisation. In doing this, wherever possible The Walton Group makes use of your existing capabilities and resources for maximum efficiency and effectiveness, to produce sustainable outcomes. 

SERVICES 

Ethics & Governance Practice       

 -Ethical / Legal Health Checks

-Anti-Corruption & Ethical Risk

-Risk Management

-Organisational Culture, Values, Alignment & Engagement

The Walton Group can give your organisation an independent governance health check, paying particular attention to actual, perceived and potential ethical and legal risks. The systematic approach delivers you a comprehensive, rigorous analysis, followed by a report on development opportunities to assist you, be it at Board level, senior management or more generally, to achieve the best possible governance processes, structures, and practices.

There is a lot of talk about ethics these days but it is a difficult subject to pin down, highly subjective and often far clearer in hindsight when a problem has already emerged. Yet the consequences of not addressing ethics early can be devastating for your business.

The first issue is to ensure that your people can identify ethical issues when they arise. The second is that they handle them appropriately. The Walton Group can help you clarify your ethical environment, give you the tools to develop an ethical culture and train your people to identify ethical issues and use ethical judgment skills.

The result will be greater confidence in the ability to see, discuss and handle ethical issues, against the backdrop of the law. This reduces the potential for costly mistakes and helps build a culture that supports appropriate behaviour at every level of your operations.

 

Compliance Practice       

-Legislative & Regulatory Compliance

-Corporate Social Responsibility

-Sustainability Audits

 

Complying with, and getting the raft of complex laws and regulatory obligations assimilated into your organisation’s DNA is tough stuff. While not offering legal advice, the lawyers amongst us are highly skilled in assisting you to identify and understand where some of your compliance gaps lie and will work with you to make practical, down to earth suggestions on how to tackle the risks and exploit the opportunities, from both a top-down and bottom-up perspective.

The Walton Group can take you through a systematic process of reviewing your business so that you are fully informed, you can understand and articulate to others the issues for your business long term, and you can minimise the costs and even identify possible opportunities.

The Walton Group will help you to understand the latest thinking on CSR, keep you up to date with current developments, and assist you to implement strategies that will improve your performance in this dynamic area. This will help keep investors, employees and regulators happy. As the threats from climate change begin to manifest, it is the responsible, strategic organisations which will survive and flourish.

 

Board Services Practice

-Board Reviews & Refreshment

-Director Briefings

-Director Induction

-Strategy Setting

 

The Walton Group's independent, insightful and tactful assistance can address the real issues facing your board. The Board Services Practice gets to the guts of your decision-making processes to take the board as a whole to a higher level of skills, understanding and business performance.

Is your board operating as effectively as it might?

A Board Review provides an essential development opportunity. Performance reviews are an essential part of any well run enterprise and are required by the ASX Guidelines for Good Corporate Practice. Everyone has weaknesses and there are always opportunities to do better. The board is no different.

It too will have areas where it can improve and add more value to the company or organisation's performance. The Walton Group uses its proprietary online tools, drawn from national and international research into notions of best practice. This methodology means the questions dig down into the fundamental aspects of a board’s operations, including its social and ethical dynamics.

 

Training & Development Practice      

-Course Design & Delivery

-Governance Training

-Board Development

-Judgement & Decision-Making Skills

-Cross-Cultural Training

 

The Walton Group has deep experience in customising and delivering the training and development programmes that produce the thinking, behaviours and knowledge that you require. The approach is always a blend of professional rigour for the content and high engagement in the delivery. The Walton Group adds a good dose of fun and personal anecdote to ensure that The Walton Group is never boring and to make what we say memorable and actionable for all the participants.

Whether you require a workshop for 50, a lecture for 500 or an online syllabus for 5,000 - the consultants have the communication credibility and subject matter expertise to deliver concrete business benefits.

 

 Public Sector Practice      

-Policy Design

-Organisational Integrity & Design

-Legislative Review

-Issues Management

 

The public sector requires specialist skills and knowledge because of the fundamental differences from commercial corporations and not-for-profit organisations. Government Business Enterprises are hybrid organisations and present different challenges again, as do the universities which are semi-independent statutory entities.

The Walton Group understands the competing priorities, political tensions and stakeholder balancing that often lie at the core of governance requirements for government departments, government business enterprises, statutory authorities and universities.

Moreover, with some of the consultants having held senior positions in a number of government departments, there is a rich, personal experience informing the Public Sector Practice. This experience is invaluable for understanding your concerns and issues and for getting to the core of them quickly, to help you address them effectively.

The Walton Group recognises that the scale and complexity of government creates a new level of challenge for decision-makers in these unique organisations. In the experience, navigating and negotiating across multiple reporting lines, central agencies, cabinet processes and Ministerial requirements can always be improved with specialised input and the targeted development of capabilities.