Our Culture and Shared Values
Our culture is based on our shared values. These values are the basis of our actions, and serve as the guiding principles for decision making at ThreeWill.
Our shared core values are:
Free Will
“We choose to make the right decisions”
We value the God given ability to make conscious choices in the workplace and life. Free will is the term we use to describe the awareness that we have to consciously choose to make good decisions. At ThreeWill, we encourage each other to use our capacity to innovate when solving problems.
Free will is summed up well by author Stephen R. Covey in three sentences: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space, lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices, lie our growth and happiness.”
At any moment, we have the freedom to choose to make the right decision. This is often difficult, but is key to helping each other and our clients succeed.
Responsibility
“We are accountable to our decisions”
We value an environment where people are accountable for decisions and responsibilities. To be responsible, requires making and keeping commitments that help produce results. Being responsible is making conscious decisions in the “space between stimulus and response.” A responsible person is in control of his life and is accountable for how he responds to everyday stimulus on projects for our clients.
An important aspect of being responsible is proactively setting your own goals that are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely). ThreeWill incorporates goal setting into associate’s professional development plans, but responsible behavior also comes from self motivated individuals who are looking to add value to client engagements and internally at ThreeWill. Working with responsible people builds a high trust environment and is instrumental to “highly functional” teams.
Teamwork
“We work for a larger purpose”
We value teamwork and believe that we work for a larger purpose. People at ThreeWill want to see other associates be successful and we look at client relationships as partnerships. We keep our teams small so that we can solve our client’s problems with agility. Our delivery methodology is agile to allow us to “inspect and adapt” to our client’s needs.
At ThreeWill, a significant part of our team culture is approaching our work with confidence, but at the same time humility. We believe that this “humble confidence” is a key ingredient to forming strong teams that include our clients as part of the team. During our client engagements, we realize that we are not just a project team, but part of a larger interdependent group that as a whole either succeeds or fails.
Fairness and Honesty
“We treat each other and clients fairly and honestly”
We value building long lasting partnerships with clients in a fair and honest way that is equitable to both parties. Stephen R. Covey calls these “win-win” relationships; we will look to create engagements with clients that will create success for both parties.
Being fair and honest is a big part of providing quality service to clients with high integrity. If we are to build long lasting partnerships with our clients, we need to be explicit in our decisions and do our best to lead them down the right path. If a risk or issue becomes apparent, we will raise this with our clients to give them the opportunity to react appropriately and enable them to address the problem. Sometimes this information is difficult to share with a client, but it is key to our long lasting partnerships.
Personal Growth and Balance
“We encourage each other to grow in a balanced way”
We value personal growth because in order to thrive in technology consulting, it is critical that our associates are sharpening their inter-personal and technical skills. ThreeWill supports an environment that encourages people to grow in ways that allow them to be high contributors to our clients, our company, and our communities. You can see evidence of how we value knowledge sharing and growth through our blog.
ThreeWill fosters an environment where people have a passion for what they do, but realize that there is more to life than just work. To achieve proper balance and achieve excellence at the workplace, we hold each other accountable for proper planning and effective use of our time at work. Being a solution provider, we are constantly put in challenging situations. We realize that there will be times where there are spikes in work hours, but if we see sustained periods of long hours on a project, we make sure that proper expectation management is done to get the project back to a reasonable work week.
Service and Creating Value
“We are committed to creating value for our clients”
It is critical for us to provide a high value service to our clients. We look to create the right combination of People, Process, and Technology to maximize the impact we have on our engagements. We realize that technology is only one component of what is needed to create value when producing a solution for our clients. At the end of the day, we value a solution that allows our clients to be highly successful.
What you will find at ThreeWill are people who want to be part of delivering superior service. In one way or another, everyone at ThreeWill is a servant leader. This attitude of servant leadership has been the glue that keeps our culture strong and all of us accountable to creating value for our clients.
Passion and Fun
“We love what we do and working at ThreeWill”
We value having an environment where people choose to come to work because they are passionate about what they do. We realize that our company exists because we provide a service or solution that has a positive economic difference to our client. That being said, we always challenge ourselves to stay in balance between “Making Money and Having Fun” at work. A significant proportion of your life is at work, so it is important that you make the most of it – having passion with what you do and fun while doing it!
