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Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Harvest Group

What a company recognizes and celebrates matters. As an integrated commerce agency, it would be natural to reward business accomplishments and metrics. But we play a team sport, so attributing results to an individual can be difficult. Recognizing and celebrating the wrong thing can be toxic to a culture. What we celebrate and reward has far reaching, often unintended, consequences that can sabatoge a culture in two potential ways. First, it can motivate unhealthy behavior in those seeking recognition. Second, it can actually demotivate those not recognized by killing morale. At Harvest Group, we decided years ago to celebrate and recognize living out our values. It is one of the most impactful cultural decisions we have made to date. Nominations are open to the entire company and a representative committee from every office, largely made up of past award winners select the winners (not leadership). It means something to those recognized and to the rest of us to see them celebrated. I also suspect it means more than I realize to the future health of our culture. Our annual Values Awards Dinner is one of my favorite nights of the year. It shows our team what we are truly made of and inspires us to keep getting better. Congratulations to all of this years award winners!

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Every year one of the highlights of Big Meeting is the celebration of our Values Awards winners. These individuals are nominated by their peers for displaying our values in an outstanding way over the past year both in their personal and professional lives. As a values-based company, we want to take the time to celebrate the meaningful ways our values come to life in our culture and recognizing these people is just one way we do that. We are proud to celebrate these six special people for their contribution to our culture and we are continually thankful for the big and small ways our teammates live our values every day! Read about our 2023 Values Winners here: https://lnkd.in/g7saKUM4 Excellence: Cole SpencerBryan Jennings Relationship: Michelle (Nelson) Treviño Integrity: Talel Romdhan Journey: Meredith Klein Legacy: JP Dickey

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9mo

JP Dickey is such a rockstar! I love that dude!

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8mo

Interesting Ross thanks for sharing

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JP Dickey is the man! Very fortunate to know him and work with him!

Sandy Tush

Executive in Residence at Milestone Leadership

9mo

I really, REALLY love this!! Well done, Harvest Group!

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