Our Values in the Workplace

Raising Planetary Consciousness....In the Workplace

ConsciousMedia.com (CMC) is a start-up company with a Mission to help raise planetary consciousness by helping individuals raise their own consciousness. In seeking to help transform the world, CMC intends to create a work environment that helps team members fulfill their potential both as individuals and as employees. The success of our company depends on the successful growth of the individuals with whom we work.

Every company’s Mission is dependent on the success of its employees. It is the responsibility of managers and staff to create a workplace that fosters individual respect while facilitating a professional agenda. A partnership is needed to ensure a work environment that meets performance goals as it encourages the best in individual performance.

At ConsciousMedia.com, we have a wonderful opportunity to build a business from the ground up. Our business plan includes the following blueprint for creating a work environment that helps transform members of the team, so the team can help transform the world.

1. The Journey at Work: Personally and professionally, the journey is the destination. How we work is just as important as what we accomplish. Believing this to be true, ConsciousMedia.com is creating a work environment that accommodates individual needs as well as the needs of the corporation. As our volume of business expands, operations will be geared to expand with it. We will help prepare individuals to accommodate a rapid and significant increase in business by having managers model a professional work ethic that is beyond reproach, mentoring young employees and providing training for every one as new systems and technology evolve. In short, we will concentrate on empowering employees to fulfill their potential in the workplace just as they would empower themselves to fulfill their potential as individuals.

2. Embrace Diversity: People bring a lot more to a business than their resumes could possibly tell. Accepting the fact that a “whole” person is being hired is an important management decision. Individuals bring more than just racial and cultural heritages to the workplace. They have different learning styles, work habits and philosophical outlooks on life. Embracing the rich diversity of individuals and incorporating the whole person into the workplace means utilizing every thing the employee has to offer. This makes the workplace a vibrant learning evironment where standards for performance are raised to the highest common denominator thanks to freely shared ideas and skills.

3. Work Smarter, Then Harder: It’s more important to be productive than it is to be busy. Creating a work plan, prioritizing activities, organizing team work, coordinating schedules and tracking results against agreed upon timelines optimizes the individual’s efforts as well as the efforts of the organization. The efficient organization of projects enables employees to work more effectively. Working effectively makes it easier to produce the significant results needed by our start-up company. Effective utilization of our employees’ time empowers them as individuals. We recognize too, that “working smarter” means offering flexibility in work schedules so that employees can attend to family matters that are important to them. Because we value our employees, matters of importance to them are important to us.

4. Recognition and Thanks: Recognition is the sincerest form of encouragement. The best way to encourage non-stop creative thinking and constructive implementation is to publicly recognize individuals for specific accomplishments. Even though teams are common in the workplace, it’s important to remember that teams are made up of individuals. Individuals thrive on recognition and each person’s individual accomplishments should be celebrated as soon as they are realized. Yes, and yet this is balanced with the need to celebrate teamwork, because our organization is only as strong as its weakest team.

5. Focus on What’s Working: We get what we focus on and so it is important to focus on solutions rather than problems. When a problem arises, focus on expanding those things that are working rather than identifying every little thing that isn’t. It is much more energizing to ask people, “What’s right?” than “What’s wrong?” That energy empowers individuals to focus on solutions and leads to greater productivity.

6. Speak Early, Speak Often: Effective communications is the single most important business tool available to any company. As we grow, we will communicate our goals, strategies and results to employees through weekly staff meetings and frequent team meetings. It is our intent to communicate information in such a way that we transform individuals from having an employee-attitude to having an owner’s mentality. Simply awarding stock options does not guarantee an owner’s mentality! We will encourage decisions to be made by individuals who “own” their solutions, the results of those solutions and the long-term impact of those decisions. We believe we will best serve our customers and shareholders with employees who have both stock options…. and an owner’s attitude.

7. Sharing Values to Create a Shared Vision: People accomplish what they agree to accomplish. At ConsciousMedia.com, our values are truly reflected in the products we sell. In fact, we believe so much in the value of pursuing growth in Body, Mind and Spirit that it is our Vision to make the tools for this growth available through our web site to as many people around the world as possible. Furthermore, our belief in personal responsibility and integrity of action is reflected in our commitment to excellent customer service and respect for our fellows, whether they are business associates or customers.

8. Listening with Our Heart: Our work is complicated! It’s not always easy to understand what individuals mean when they are trying to communicate new work processes, technical solutions or competitive business concepts. Listening with the heart means respecting every contribution because we believe it is offered with the honest intention to have a positive impact. It is based on the underlying assumption that we are all truly working together. Not every idea warrants implementation, but surprisingly few ideas are completely without merit. Pieces of discarded ideas end up surfacing in other remarkably valuable solutions. We create fertile ground for future ideas by considering every suggestion from the heart as well as the head.

The eight principles listed above represent a blueprint for honoring the people who will create ConsciousMedia.com in their own image and likeness. It is our intent to create a work environment that is consistent with the personal reality of our employees. Of course, we face the practical challenge of implementing our intent to honor the “individual in the employee” on a daily basis. As ConcsciousMedia.com unfolds, we hope to encourage team members to raise their own levels of consciousness. This is fundamental to the success of our business and the first step toward fulfilling our Mission.

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