Building a business to be proud of...

Building a business to be proud of

           Finding Joy in Relationships and Outcomes

    

   We are doing more than building a profit producing machine.  If that were all, we would be lost—and we would have failed long before our 25^th anniversary.  Throughout our company’s history we have built the business on relationships: Getting to know people, providing people with opportunities to grow—the chance to do more, contribute more, achieve more and earn more—sharing the challenges of taking on seemingly impossible tasks and succeeding together, enjoying the marvel of what we have mutually created. 

   We see the years 1986 - 2011 on our current 25^th anniversary logos…but focusing on those two listed years misses the major point.  What is important is what is represented by “the dash” that lies between those numbers—that little dash represents all the 25 years and all that we have accomplished in those years. 

   What matters most is not the 1986 when we started or the 2011 that we have reached, but all those years in between—the dash years.  That little dash represents all the time we have had together—even if it has just been for a part of those 25 years.   When we have all reached our retirement age we will look back and not remember the amount of packages or profits, but we will remember the years together in which we built, shared, learned, laughed and cared.  It will be how we have lived those years represented by the dash—in other words how we have spent our dash. 

   It is fitting then, in our 25^th year, that we are making an attempt to state just exactly how we want to operate and grow this business: What values we share, what traits sustain us and what actions support are words. 

   Emanating from our Values of focusing on people and quality, we have identified an organizational trait—a shared characteristic—of finding Joy in Relationships and Outcomes.  This means that we find strength in people, satisfaction in associations and collaboration and we celebrate our achievements

   We know that the observable behaviors that support, sustain and strengthen this 25 year old organizational characteristic—extending it into the future in order to keep our company vital—are actions such as: 

v     Actively getting to know team members in a personal level, understanding their skills, needs, motivations and contributions

v     Actively identifying people for job and career growth;

v     Actively committing  resources to developing career and vocational growth

v     Actively setting up opportunities for achievement and creating rewards

v     Actively giving credit to others;

v     Actively celebrating the achievements of others;

v     Actively finding opportunities to acknowledge achievement

v     Actively and regularly using company programs to recognize individual and team achievement

v     Actively bringing passion, enthusiasm and fun to the workplace

                                                     

v     Actively demonstrating a caring attitude about work relationships by being open, honest and direct in a way that strengthens both relationships and outcomes