This is the story of how the fully inclusive, co-created Afrika Tikkun Formula for Success came to life.

At Afrika Tikkun, we believe that integration and alignment are crucial for our wellbeing and growth. To ensure that we are continuously on track to be the best version of ourselves, we decided to collectively build a powerful cultural model that all employees could relate to – our very own and unique Afrika Tikkun Formula: defined in mathematics, expressed in art, measured in statistics and lived in action.

Our primary purpose is to enable Responsible kindness, which will take our company to the next level. This objective was pre-defined on the ‘right-hand-side’ of the equal sign of the Afrika Tikkun Formula and all employees were invited to express their views, via the Blueprints Method™, on how best to achieve it.

Every member of the organisation was asked to express what Afrika Tikkun needs to do more of, and what it needs do less of to increase our future fitness.

Over 850 opinions were gathered, which were thematically grouped into 30 discrete enabling factors (those to be pursued) and 26 discrete disabling factors (those to be eliminated). All employees were then invited to vote on the most important themes, and the winning 10 Top Line Enablers and 10 Bottom Line Disablers emerged to formulate the final Afrika Tikkun DNA, along with their weightings of importance.

To bring our winning Formula to life for all to see, all employees were asked to express creative ideas on how to depict each of the Afrika Tikkun Formula elements as art forms. Over 200 ideas were proposed and the best ideas were converted into two-dimensional images.

The Afrika Tikkun Formula is measured regularly to determine how each of these icon elements are being lived, where the high priority focus areas for each Centre are and what actions are required to drive real and sustainable improvements.

In this way, the Afrika Tikkun culture and organisational effectiveness will continue to grow from strength to strength.