Corporate Culture:

Teamwork

Team Culture

Benefits and Action Areas

Why Team Culture?

It is becoming increasingly important that teams function productively with a minimum of supervision. Team culture ensures that individual members both demonstrate their best talents and function synergistically as a unit to achieve common goals.

When team culture reigns, teams are dependable and consistent. People voice their opinions openly. They demonstrate creativity, innovate and see a job through to conclusion.

 Case in Point  Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)

The IEHP Team Culture supports a system to provide the best health care possible to people who need IEHP's collective support. It is how employees interact with one another...the professionalism and respect they exhibit to each other, how they learn and communicate with one another, those outside of their organization and, most importantly, the IEHP Members.

It’s a corporate culture that supports the idea that all Team Members are valued...individuals can make a difference...but to do so requires a positive and interactive approach with other members of IEHP's team...remembering that IEHP Members are the center of IEHP's universe.

Below are the highlights that create and maintain the IEHP Team Culture:

• Focus on our Member’s needs, our reason for being.

• You are valued.

• Your opinion is important.

• Your job is very important to our success...you can make a difference.

• Your involvement in our team environment is essential.

• Work as a Team Member... you won’t make it alone.

• Always ask a Team Member if they need help...don’t wait to be asked.

• Be involved in our success.

• Work with others in a cooperative manner.

• Treat all Team Members with respect...it’s their job to return that respect.

• Constantly strive to improve everything you do, every process you are involved in, everything you touch.

• It’s okay to have fun...you should be happy at work.

• Be a positive influence on everyone you interact with.

• Expect to work at a high level of activity.

• You have joined a winning team...it’s something to be proud of and be a part of.

Finally, you must be a proponent of the IEHP Team Culture...its success, your success and our organization’s success depends upon it. If each Team Member supports the Team Culture, it will happen and we will continue to have an extraordinary place in which to work and succeed.

 Case in Point  BMG

BMG is a Australian multi-award winning consultancy firm dedicated to providing their clients with the technical expertise and guidance needed to achieve clients' financial and lifestyle goals.

Team culture is a distinctive feature of BMG. The BMG's Team Culture statement reads as follows:

BMG's operating structure has only one layer between the team and our board of management. Our inclusive culture enables all team members to actively participate in the firm's decision-making processes. We have open channels of communication where expressions of opinion and suggestions from all team members are openly encouraged and highly valued.

The firm empowers and supports team members in reaching mutually agreed goals by providing on-going training and industry best systems and resources.

We seek to support the health, well-being and work/personal life balance of team members and to provide a working experience that creates a sense of pride, value and achievement in the work we do.

 Case in Point  GE