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Our Values (what we look for in our people and the team)

Agility

  • Alert to opportunities
  • Initiates and responds with speed, coherence, and commitment
  • Seeks possibilities and is open to alternative solutions
  • Shares ideas
  • Willing to challenge the status quo

Empowerment and accountability

  • Gives clear authority to act
  • Seeks help when needed
  • Takes initiative and has the self confidence to act
  • Takes responsibility for individual actions, team results, and organizational impact
  • Trusts others to do the right things

Ethics and Integrity

  • Acts honestly in all dealings
  • Cares about others
  • Honors commitments and promises
  • Seeks and gives truth
  • Shows consistency between words and actions
  • Treats others with fairness, respect and dignity

Personal

  • Celebrates contribution, achievement and cycles of learning
  • Encourages a healthy balance between work and personal life
  • Exhibits and encourages optimism about ourselves and our future
  • Does not take oneself too seriously
  • Treats problems as challenges to be overcome

Learning

  • Demonstrates uncommon desire to understand
  • Increases cycles of learning
  • Quickly identifies failures and takes corrective action
  • Shares learning from success and failures
  • Seeks and gives appreciative and constructive feedback
  • Seeks diverse input to strengthen ideas and decisions
  • Sees contrary views as opportunities to learn
  • Takes accountability for own development and invests in the development of others

Teamwork

  • Encourages constructive conflict and is skilled at resolving that conflict
  • Has mutual trust and is accountable for results
  • Places the interests of team above self
  • Promotes cross-functional problem solving
  • Values differences and acts as one Values diversity and teamwork

 

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