We want people to do the hard thing first. “Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.” That’s another one. We want people to have the mindset of falling short, learning, and moving forward. A person with a growth mindset finds meaning in the journey and looks at failure as an opportunity to learn and as a stepping stone to the next success. It’s about looking at challenges and obstacles in your life. McKee: I’ll start with my favorite: “Embrace a growth mindset.” It stems from Carol Dweck’s book, “Mindset.” It’s not about financial growth. We want to ensure that those values are entrenched early in someone’s employment with Atlas. But we know what values and behaviors help a recruiter be successful.

We want to see people take risks, fail, and make choices that perhaps our executive team wouldn’t make. We don’t have all the wisdom in the world. We want people to express their uniqueness because we learn a ton from them. If you’re following those, everything else is up to you.” This is the goal, and this is the core process. We try to create and communicate parameters, such as, “This is the behavior and values we expect. We celebrate when we hear those stories and share them on our company intranet. We want our team to bring stories about candidates who have embodied those values. During those meetings, we discuss our values. We have weekly huddles and Monday morning meetings like the EOS prescribes. We meet our recruiters at the branch level every day. We have clear core values and behaviors and work hard to communicate them to all employees. It’s been essential to where we are today.

It was an important first step to getting serious about core values and goals and making sure they flow to everybody in the company. We implemented it years ago in our business. We’re a big believer in the Entrepreneurial Operating System. It’s been a long, hard 11 years, but I’m proud of what we’ve built. and just opened our newest branch in Phoenix. We have five locations across the western U.S. Joshua McKee: We’re a light industrial staffing company. Eric Bandholz: Give us a rundown of Atlas Staffing.

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