CULTURE AND EMPOWERMENT

The following six values with corresponding practices are imbedded in an organizational culture developing the full potential of its employees.

1. Self Responsibility: Individuals take responsibility to have their job, team, function, organization, the way they wish it to be. This is the counterpoint to being a victim within the organization.

2. Authentic Communication: Individual communication is open, honest, transparent, and vulnerable. Individuals are talking about the real issues going on in the organization.

3. Trust: Individuals feel safe enough to try out new behaviors and take risks without fear of reprimand or put down by their superiors or colleagues if they make mistakes. There is a genuine sense of good will that pervades the organization.

4. Personal and Group Process Skills: Individuals and the organization have established protocols and developed skills which are regularly deployed to resolve interpersonal issues that come up in project management. Issues are resolved quickly and cleanly.

5. Learning and Growing: Individuals are encouraged and rewarded to work on the real growth issues necessary for professional and personal development within the framework of the organization. Individuals are ever challenging themselves and supporting each other to develop and grow.

6. Caring: The organizational leadership demonstrate in tangible ways concern for individual employee well being. Employees feel valued and are inspired to give their very best effort on behalf of the organization.