RAISE
Our Philosophy
At Human First Works, we support leaders who want to encourage and inspire their teams. As founders and leaders, we succeed best when we recognize the strengths and motivation of the people around us and provide them the tools, autonomy, and environment they need to become their best selves. By investing in these empowered individuals and teams, we enable them to find their ideal roles and make outstanding contributions to the company.
When people find meaning in their work, they will do their best every day. Active learning, supported by leaders creating the safety to do so, turns each day into a chance for the organization to reap surprising rewards. In turn, this allows organizations to achieve their bigger goals and adapt quickly to an ever-changing and complex business landscape.
To help leaders make this a reality, we've developed RAISE, a work philosophy that focuses on:
Resilient Leadership
Amplifying Individuals
Investing in Teams
Striving for Greatness
Evolving Rapidly
RAISE
Every leader has a unique vision and strengths, as well as areas of personal growth. After all, leaders are human.
At Human First Works, our purpose is to evolve each leader’s approach to communicating, allocating their valuable time, and supporting their team. We help them understand their blind spots or gaps and develop new habits that make them and their teams more successful, inspired, and engaged in their work purpose.
This can include developing specific interpersonal and communication skills, considering and testing new approaches to motivating staff, and ideally building a team that matches and realizes the organization’s vision. It is also about learning and mentoring flexibility since change is ever-present. And every particular aspect we work on ties into this bigger network of values, concepts, and practices that make up our philosophy, our North Star. It all leads to RAISE:
Resilient Leadership
Admirable leadership is marked by the capacity to seize opportunities and continue thriving in the face of change, unexpected market dynamics, and staff challenges. This comes from a deep focus and belief in the effectiveness of people, hiring those who can contribute to our culture and vision, nurturing them through tougher times, removing roadblocks, and celebrating every success, small and big. Resilience doesn’t falter.
We work with founders and leaders that are:
- Strategic and thorough
- Aware, caring, and inclusive
- Imaginative, generative, and decisive
- Authentic and honest
- People-centered
We prepare them to handle any challenge by:
- Coaching and supporting them as they find their best selves
- Helping co-founders work through disagreements productively
- Providing open support and feedback where blind spots may exist
- Helping with succession planning and even co-founder splits
Amplifying Individuals
We help leaders become spectacular in:
- Role Definition for self and others
- Values identification
- Hiring and onboarding
- Feedback
- Compensation
- Creating flexible work environments
- Eliminating learned helplessness
- Rewarding experimentation and risk-taking
Investing in Teams
These trusting and empowered teams make work "possible, fulfilling, and a learning adventure." We help organizations by:
- Chartering new teams
- Elevating teams and getting rid of ineffective hierarchies—amplifying useful differentiation and dynamic hierarchies
- Acknowledging and delegating power
- Unleashing decision-making
- Leveraging values to create connection and effectiveness
- Creating an understanding of risk-taking and how to address risk in an organizational context
- Creating effective team agreements
Striving for Greatness
We help teams and organizations aim for greatness by:
- Creating compelling metrics
- Communicating founders’ passion to all stakeholders
- Improving clarity and effectiveness in communication
- Demonstrating “how” to make work an inspired purpose
- Connecting the dots and reminding all the “why,” the vision, and the mission
- Celebrating impact in all roles towards the purpose
- Promoting respect for diversity
Evolving Rapidly
We enable leaders to own opportunities in our complex world with an outstanding team and a focused game plan by:
- Creating specific and flexible learning development plans for the team
- Creating coaching and mentoring capacity
- Promoting an organizational growth mindset
- Providing a Business Assessment Tool—with us doing the evaluation, there will be less bias
- Teaching “gap” identification and providing best practices for filling them
- Teaching how to understand the cause, the source, and the impact
- Establishing a different context and language to support change
- Making change doable
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