Building the Individual and the Team
Business
Individual
- Excellence
- Teamwork
- Entrepreneurship
- Service
- Diversity
- Influence
The pursuit of distinction in business, family and community
- Insists on excellence in all things; sets the example
- Provides recognition beyond wins and billability
- Makes objective, quality service to the client a top priority; sets the example
- Continuously strives to improve work processes, products, services
- Provides timely effective, accurate, constructive performance feedback to team
- Recruits and develops quality staff with potential
- Contributes to and stays current with developments in the field.
Mutual collaboration to reach common objectives without focus on personal again.
- Builds strong and positive working relationships
- Maintains positive work climate
- Involves others in planning activities and decisions
- Makes optimum use of inputs of others
- Helps others
- Encourages, recognizes, and celebrates success of team and its members
- Supports career mobility
- Engenders enthusiasm, excitement for the work and the future
- Rewards appropriate team behavior.
Turning opportunity into success through prudent action.
- Accepts and rewards risk taking in order to pursue opportunities that will benefit overall team
- Encourages creative thought and action
- Capitalizes on opportunities created by changes in the market
- Inspires with a compelling vision of the future
- Demonstrates motivation to take on new responsibilities and skills.
Adding value through conscience effort and personal leadership
- Holds client services and the client’s interest as a top priority
- Considers long-term client needs as well as short-term demands
- Makes and delivers on commitment
- Takes personal responsibility for improving service.
Appreciation for the value of differences
- Respects cultural and individual differences
- Is inclusive in work activities
- Recognizes and utilizes the contributions of different perspectives
- Does not discriminate.
Moving others to think and act uprightly through conscious effort
- Taking time out to reflect on leadership style and effectiveness
- Ongoing awareness of strengths, weakness and leadership opportunities
- Taking personal accountability to positively influence and develop others
- Mentoring and coaching others to maximize their effectiveness.
- Professionalism
- Fairness
- Integrity
- Respect
- Trust
- Self Mastery
Empowering self and others to maximize effectiveness
- Seeks out and listens to honest feedback from others
- Gives candid and constructive feedback to others
- Identifies and takes opportunities for maintaining/increasing skills
- Takes future organizational needs into account in planning own development
- Share own expertise and experience
- Actively supports, mentor, and coaches others.
Giving others their due in word and deed
- Consistent in treatment of staff
- Distributes information as equally as is appropriate
- Uses inclusive work and decision process
- Adheres to firm’s standard
- Does not play favorites
- Recognizes the merits of individuals and their performance
Consistency in what one professes to be and how one lives
- Keeps commitments and promises
- Demonstrates courage to present and hear the truth in appropriate manner
- Acts in best interests of the client, the firm and the team
- Displays and reinforces the highest ethical standards
- Accurately represents own competencies.
Esteeming others by extending the same courtesy with which one hopes to be afforded.
- Practices patient and active listening
- Is sensitive to other people’s time
- Recognizes and credits the contribution of others
- Is empathetic to other’s motivations and feelings
- Supports work/life balance needs of staff and self
- Treats others with dignity
- Shows patience, tolerance, and concern for people at all levels and from all backgrounds.
Building confidence through insightful action
- Promotes open communication
- Build trust by being honest, fair, consistent; sets example for others
- Keeps confidences and information at the appropriate levels
- Accepts and acts on open and honest feedback
- Does what is right even if it involves risk or conflict
- Takes responsibility for actions and admits mistakes
Controlling one’s passions amid personal drive
- Exercising self constraint in times of strong passions
- Delaying words and actions when excited to anger, frustration, discouragement
- Stepping back from situations when compelling strong emotions are present in self or others.
