OPENESS & FAIRNESS:

• Have very few management layers and management perks.
• Promote, live and be a community example for workforce diversity.
• Open and ongoing two-way communication and accessibility.
• Empower and involve team members.
• Have user friendly, proactive, fair and published "people" policies.
• Have a suggestion/input program with follow up.
• Have a visible and team member friendly problem (grievance) system with rapid follow up and resolution.

JOB SECURITY & EQUITY:

• If layoffs or cutbacks become necessary, be generous and conduct them with grace, equity and dignity. Reduce expenses at the top before any layoffs.

OPPORTUNITIES:

• Post all openings and promote from within whenever possible.
• Offer training/ development programs and sabbaticals.
• "Grow your own" to develop your team members for hard to fill positions.
• Encourage and recognize community involvement.

COMPENSATION:

• Offer open and competitive, yet cost effective compensation and benefits.
• Offer family friendly benefits and work schedules.
• Recognize individual and team excellence via financial and nonfinancial rewards and share the organizational successes.
• Implement skill based pay programs.

COMARADERIE/FREINDSHIP/SUPPORT:

• Create, support and maintain a family and team environment.
• Maintain an environment that fosters and nurtures team member trust and respect for each other.

PRIDE IN THE ORGANIZATION & SERVICE EXCELLENCE:

• Create pride in the organization and treat team members as stakeholders
• Recognize and reward service excellence.
• Continually celebrate the heroes.

• Commitment to team member continued development and growth.
  
• Opportunity for input, involvement .i.e… empowerment.
  
• Flexible and creative work schedules.
  
• Opportunity to take risks and fail.
  
• Opportunity to assist the organization in growing.
  
• Mentors.
  
• Challenging positions and work assignments.
  
• Equitable compensation including rewarding and recognizing performance excellence, i.e., competitive pay and benefits and bonus/incentive (individual and team) opportunity.
  
• Few titles and layers of management.
  
• Non-monetary recognition of accomplishments and efforts.
  
• Family friendly environment and benefits.
  
• Organizational teamwork encouraged and developed.
  
• Opportunity to become a "stakeholder".