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Sgt Julie Robinson, RLC Chef,
Instructor Food Services
Training Wing:
“Our Ethos highlights the high-
performance culture, dynamic ability
and persuasive influence that we have. Chef Ethos
It showcases our ‘growth mindset’ and The RLC Chef Ethos is about being agile in
how we work together, establishing our thought and in skill, ensuring mission defining
mutual values. It projects our passion, deadlines are met with tenacity and fortitude.
skills and professionalism, we are not It is about passion, creativity, pride and a want
just chefs we are a family. Our Ethos will to achieve our core aim, sustainment.
help all RLC Chefs, instilling a culture and We are mentally and physically robust,
philosophy of belonging into our trade we accept challenge and lead with empathy.
that will endure for years to come.” We adapt to our environment and remain

focused on service delivery.
We are professional, courageous, intelligent
WO2 William Grist, RLC Chef,
29 Royal Engineers: and above all, we trust and value our
team members.
“The RLC Chef Ethos project was created We are a Family, We thrive together,
with the vision to implement an ethos We are the Chefs #WeAreTheChefs
that allowed the RLC Chef to feel a sense
of belonging. It was an opportunity to
strengthen our identity and pride in order
to maximise our talent, which would understand our expected behaviours. This is essen-
help create new ideas, empowerment tial in building belonging and identity and is only
and innovation for the future. The trade the tip of the iceberg. Shaping our behaviours is
has seen a reduction in its workforce and a wicked problem and is linked with how society
changes in its role, however, this hasn’t adapts. It requires constant review and challenge
stopped us being world class leaders in to remain current. However, it is a huge step in
delivering culinary excellence, whether the right direction. This was a ground led project
that be in the home base, on exercises to solve a problem that was identified by a soldier.
or overseas operations. The ethos allows It has enabled innovative thought and shows that
anyone can adopt The RLC strategy to create
us to have an identity, understanding our change. Not only this, it shows that The RLC is a
importance and what we deliver now and progressive learning organisation that empowers its
for the future, instilling that excellence, people to make significant change; fundamentally,
professionalism and self-pride for the walking the walk of its own strategy, placing people
next generations of RLC Chef.” at the forefront of the organisation.
I am proud to lead this project, it has shown
me that that if we work together, we can achieve
bottom up and dispose of barriers such as rank,
fantastic results, challenge our own assumptions
so that we had parity. Ultimately rank holds the
and break through organisational norms to create
assumption that the one with the biggest badge has
a brighter future.
the best idea and the final say. In fact, this change
We are a family, we thrive together… We are
will affect every member of the trade and it was
the Chefs!
essential to make sure that every member had an
equal voice. Ideas flowed and the group identified
SSgt Kerry Bale, RLC Chef, Garrison
outputs that could deliver the aim; a trade mission
Management Team, HQ Tidworth
and vision and an ethos statement.
Netheravon and Bulford Garrison:
By having a joint mission and vision we are stra-
tegically focused as a trade in what we are currently “We are part of a family that has a
delivering and how we can move forward collec- shared determination and purpose to
tively. Our ethos shows the characteristics of an enhance the lived experience of our
RLC Chef, the spirit that drives us to achieve our fellow soldiers. We do this with passion,
mission and how we can deliver the RLC vision in pride and creativity. We always try to
a trade context. This shapes our culture to become provide the highest level of nutrition and
better leaders and problem solvers, with adaptive contributing to morale, regardless of the
thought and an agile posture. It enables us to be a
challenges we face.”
community, even if we are dispersed, because we all
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