Core Values

Q4 Safety Award Winner: Marty DeHeck “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?” – John Wooden  While stacking a pallet, there were a few packages misaligned with the others.  Looking at the rest of the pallet, you wouldn’t think it much of an issue.  […]

Q4 Core Value Award: Communicate Openly With Confidence & Respect “When a person speaks, it is he or she who is speaking, not some mechanical word generator—there is a person behind it, one who has lived and loved, laughed and cried, learned and forgotten. And as a result, obvious as it may sound, he or

Q4 Core Value Award: Be Adventurous, Embrace & Drive Change “If we take a step despite feeling uncomfortable, afraid, or inadequate, our comfort zones expand. We grow in strength and skill. What we consider normal for us changes, sometimes radically…Doing hard things is how we exercise our bodies, our minds, and our faith.  Small hard

Q4 2018 Core Value Winner: Be Adventurous, Embrace & Drive Change It seems that adventure and challenge go together.  Think about it, what we’re accustomed to doing becomes the norm.  Say I climb Mt. Everest each day.  Risky, right?  Well, the familiarity of the risk eventually lessens the challenge and the adventurous feeling it creates.

Q4 2018 Core Value Winner: Promote A Winning Team Spirit Camaraderie seems to grow as team members take greater ownership over the success of the team.  “That’s not my job”, “I’m too busy”, “It won’t work”, or “I can’t believe THEY are planning to do this” are statements that isolate team members and kill productivity. 

Q4 2018 Core Value Award Winner: Expect Greatness In Yourself & Inspire It In Others Inspiring greatness in others with an expectation of excellence is one way we display our enthusiasm for Clickstop’s mission.  This expectation of excellence is broadcast through both the work done and how the individual approaches doing his work.  Attention to

Q4 2018 Core Value Award Winner: Make Time For Fun & Family As an employee of Clickstop, you work hard to achieve great things for Clickstop, beginning with alignment through the Values and working hard at the things you’ve been given to do through your role.  In turn, Clickstop managers work hard to achieve great

Q4 2018 Core Value Winner: Think Big & Make It Happen The trust fall.  I remember my first experience with this multi-decade old team building activity.  I was a teenager, and I was falling into the arms of other teenagers.  I knew enough of them to picture them withdrawing their arms and laughing at the

Our Q4 2018 Rock Star What are we here to do?   Why is it worth doing?   How are we going to do it?   These questions help create the mission, values, and strategy of the team.  Then, we seek agreement. Once agreement is reached, we choose to hold ourselves, and others, accountable to aligned action, knowing

Q3 Core Value Winner – Communicate Openly With Confidence & Respect What are the results of poor communication?  Frustration.  Inefficiency.  Low morale.  Fear.  Lack of trust.  Disengagement.  If you create a list of desired results for any relationship, these will likely not make the cut.  If they do, well, don’t.  Just don’t do it.  But

Q3 Core Value Winner – Be Adventurous, Embrace & Drive Change To create something new requires curiosity and exploration.  Evidence suggest that the first wheels were not used for transportation but served as potter’s wheels.  It wasn’t until later that curiosity led someone to consider how they might aid in the solution to a transportation

Q3 Core Value Award Winner – Be Adventurous, Embrace & Drive Change The underlying values of an individual are the most important factor to consider when looking for a great employee.  Values drive behaviors, and the consistency of productive behaviors is the cornerstone of success.  Bill Belichick calls this type of person his “dependables,” or