Deciding who you are and identifying your core values are the first steps to identifying those employees who are the best fit for your company. Tom’s sales team has asked him how we decide who gets to become a client of one of our CPAs. His straightforward response is, “If you like to hang out with them, then let them in.” He has found the same is true for his employees. If your employee, client, or recruit is truly someone you enjoy being around and hanging out with, then you know they are the right fit because they share your values. This will facilitate a workplace culture full of excitement and positive energy. It is so important to identify your core values and to be transparent about them with your employees and your recruits.
Sharing who you are and what values you embrace is important to your employees, your recruits, your clients, and yourself. With Tom’s company, TFW Advisors®, one of our core values is to have fun. We provide training that is fun and want our employees to have fun at their jobs. If an employee is not willing to have fun at their job, this organization is not a good fit for them. Coinciding with his values, Tom looks for employees who serve their clients, seek continued learning, and embrace an overall hunger for growth professionally and personally. Oftentimes, his employees want to be involved in something bigger than themselves and seek to transform and make a difference in our profession and the world. It is important to understand that one’s values are not right or wrong; they are simply yours and mine.
Once you figure out your values, you must adhere to them consistently. To achieve consistency, look at your values, your vision, and your mission and then create rules to enforce your values. These rules should be shared and reviewed with your employees on a regular basis. By surrounding yourself with others who share the same mission and values, you create an engaging and positive workplace culture. Recognize that everyone makes mistakes and that we all need to take responsibility and learn from them to grow and get better. In Tom’s organizations, everyone is always encouraging each other, as we recognize it is a team effort. By doing these things, you too can ensure that the people you hire love to come to work.
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