GW here
for another episode of Make It Happen Monday, a motivational minute
to help you attack and win the week.
Well,
here at Polyenterprises it’s all about culture. Any business or organization,
team or family, culture is there and its either set the way you want it which
is usually good if you’re driving it or it sets itself which is usually bad. So
today’s Make It Happen Monday is about culture.
(Special
Guest Drew Miller)
A key
part of our culture here at Poly Enterprises is the Quality of our work and
being proud of what we do. One way that we ensure the highest level of quality
is through our First Article process. Before a mat is put into production we
put a sample “first article” and mail it to the customer. The
customer then makes sure that the mat is exactly how they want it, the same
size, color, image… exactly how they want. They sign it and ship it back to
us, then during production, we make sure that every mat that we run is exactly
like the one they sent us. This is just another way we can ensure that every
mat we run is the highest level of quality, and we can truly be proud of
everything that leaves our building.
GW here
for another episode of Make It Happen Monday, a motivational minute
to help you attack and win the week.
Well,
here at Polyenterprises it’s all about culture. Any business or organization,
team or family, culture is there and its either set the way you want it which
is usually good if you’re driving it or it sets itself which is usually bad. So
today’s Make It Happen Monday is about culture.
(Special
Guest Daniel Miller)
We’ve
been talking a lot about the five Cornerstones that make up our Homeplate
Culture: Performance, Stewardship, Quality, Safety, and People. These five
Cornerstones drive all actions and decisions we make here at Poly but the thing
I like the most about our Homeplate Culture is the fact that you can use it at
home in your personal life as well as here at work. The more teammates we get
to buy into that fact, the more we see and the more stories we hear from them
about them scoring which equals winning at home in their personal lives. Things
like buying their first house, paying off a car, kids getting into good
schools, any personal goals that they have, they score and they win. That’s why
we make sure that every action and decision we make here at Poly fits one of
those five Cornerstones because we know if we’re in one of the Cornerstones, we
score which equals a win, Homeplate Culture and remember, no matter what the
circumstance, no matter what the situation… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here
for another episode of Make It Happen Monday, a motivational minute to help you
attack and win the week.
Well,
here at Polyenterprises it’s all about culture. Any business or organization,
team or family, culture is there and its either set the way you want it which
is usually good if you’re driving it or it sets itself which is usually bad. So
today’s Make It Happen Monday is about culture.
(Special
Guest Jenny McConnell)
Safety
is important to me as it is to everyone here at Polyenterprises. Today we
celebrate 432 days without a loss time accident. That’s due to an active Safety
Committee and to the safety culture that is instilled in us every day. So be
safe and remember… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here
for another episode of Make It Happen Monday, a motivational minute to help you
attack and win the week.
Well,
here at Polyenterprises it’s all about culture. Any business or organization, team
or family, culture is there and its either set the way you want it which is
usually good if you’re driving it or it sets itself which is usually bad. So
today’s Make It Happen Monday is about culture.
(Special Guest – Colt Ours)
My name is Colt, I’m here today talking a little bit about our
culture and how special it is here at Polyenterprises. Our big Home Plate that
we worry about and focus on is “Scoring equals Winning.” Now, we
have our cornerstones around that and the biggest one to me is People. Those of
you who don’t know, I was a veteran… I am a veteran and I had a commander
(who) every single Friday before we left for the weekend would say the same
thing every single weekend and it stuck with me to this day. He would say, he
would rather us “try to succeed and fail rather than try to fail and
succeed” and that’s something our people do very well here (try
to succeed). Every single person shows up every single day trying to succeed.
Now they may fall short at times but no one is trying to fail and that’s a big
thing for us and it keeps us successful. And for us, success equals winning,
scoring equals winning so thanks everybody, everybody have a good day and
remember… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here for another episode of Make It Happen
Monday, a motivational minute to help you attack and win the week.
Well, here at Polyenterprises it’s all about
culture. Any business or organization, team or family, culture is there and its
either set the way you want it which is usually good if you’re driving it or it
sets itself which is usually bad. So today’s Make It Happen Monday is about
culture.
(Special Guest Robb Curtius)
One of the important tenants of our Home Plate
Culture is Quality and quality, to me, is so very important. We make products
that we are proud of, that we think are just the best, treating every aspect of
what we do as our own and one really cool thing about what we do here is that
we control every aspect. We control, we help with the design process, we have a
tooling center back here where we make the molds. We compound the materials so we
can really keep our quality high. You know, today clients have a myriad of
choices out there. They can use their marketing in this realm or that realm so
we have to make sure that we’re at the top of our game.
I’m the kind of person that when I go to a restaurant, if people are ignoring me and not coming to serve me in time or if the food is just subpar, I don’t really say anything, I just don’t ever go back and so, we want people to receive our product and just be dazzled and blown away by the quality of the product. And so quality, starting with the quality of our people extending to the quality of the product is a key tenant of our culture here at Poly and remember… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here for another episode of Make It Happen
Monday, a motivational minute to help you attack and win the week.
Well, here at Polyenterprises it’s all about
culture. Any business or organization, team or family, culture is there and its
either set the way you want it which is usually good if you’re driving it or it
sets itself which is usually bad. So today’s Make It Happen Monday is about
culture.
(Special guest: Jessica Swanson)
What excites me about our culture here at
Polyenterprises is our commitment to Stewardship. For us, that means two
things. Internally that means our commitment to being resource-efficient when
it comes to inside our facility. Outside our facility, it means volunteering
and helping others. We do several events and different activities throughout
the year that allows us to do that but one of my favorites is our partnership
with the Georgia Mountain Food Bank. One that we do the is the day before
Thanksgiving we prepare and then give out several hundred different kits of
food to underprivileged families or people that really need especially during
the Holiday season. It’s an awesome opportunity for us to work together as a
team but also to serve others.
Culture here is very important and remember…
You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here for another episode of Make It Happen
Monday, a motivational minute to help you attack and win the week.
Well, here
at Polyenterprises it’s all about culture. Any business or organization, team
or family, culture is there and its either set the way you want it which is
usually good if you’re driving it or it sets itself which is usually bad. So
today’s Make It Happen Monday is about culture.
(Special
guest Shane Swanson)
So part of
our culture here at Polyenterprises and one thing we like to focus on is
“Grow or Die.” Grow or Die is a very important part to pay attention
to and to focus on because either you grow or you die. I’m a person who really
likes quotes. The reason I like quotes so much is because most really
influential or great quotes come from a perspective of someone’s life of
experience. Something important happened that they learn or they gain from. A
quote I learned really early in life and has stuck with me is, “Those who
don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat (it)” and that’s a big
thing to focus on, to pay attention to that goes right along with Grow or Die.
A few
examples that may come to mind or, at least, come to mind to me is (when you
think about it) Blockbuster. Blockbuster was a huge company that’s no longer
around. For the older generation, you may have heard of Kodak or Polaroid.
These are all very successful companies that no longer exist because they died.
A huge one would be Compaq, the number one computer seller in the entire world
and at one point made (like) six billion dollars no longer exists because they
died, they didn’t grow. To spin-off that, those who took the chance and
actually grew and took the initiative, a big company that I really enjoy is
Samsung. For those who don’t know, when you think of Samsung, you think of
computers, phones, screens, TV monitors. Samsung actually began in 1938. The
owner of Samsung opened a grocery store with 38 dollars. They started off
selling rice and soybeans and then they innovated. They went from selling rice
and soybeans to making their own sugar refinery and then they made their own
wood mill. It wasn’t until 1969 before they even got to the technology
department when they made their first TV. Now in 2019, Samsung is one of the
biggest and most expensive companies in the entire world and most successful.
And when we think of Samsung we only think (again) like I said of technology.
What most people don’t know is that they are actually the third largest
Insurance company in the world. They own several theme parks, several hotels.
They choose to Grow instead of Die. Here at Polyenterprises thats the culture
we accept and we embrace and remember… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here for another episode of Make It Happen
Monday, a motivational minute to help you attack and win the week.
Well, I wanted to say something today about a
positive attitude. People that know me, I get up at 4 o’clock in the morning. I
go downstairs in my home office, I read, I get ready for the day and then I go
to the gym and get a workout in and then get to the office about 8 or 8:30. And
so by 8:30 / 9 o’clock I’ve had the best part of my day (usually) over with.
And, I am, by no means a good example of a success or accomplishing anything in
particular but it gives me a great chance of how I try to win the day, let
alone, win the week. It just sets me up for a great day and puts me into a
positive attitude mode.
Well, this morning as I was coming out of the gym
a friend of mine was walking in. And, he walked in and we said hello and he
said “How’s it going?” and I said, “Super” and he just
stopped and he looked at me and said, “Well, I hope the rest of your day
doesn’t go downhill.” and I said “Oh yeah” and I laughed and
left and got in the truck. And, I got to thinking on the way home, here’s
a guy who just got out of bed because you could tell his hair was all messed up
at it’s probably 7 / 7:30 and he’s already worried about the day going downhill
and I’ve been up for three and a half hours and my days just getting started
but, maan am I off to a great start.
So that positive attitude can really make a
difference in your day and remember… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here for another episode of Make It Happen
Monday, a motivational minute to help you attack and win the week.
Well, if you’ve hung around me at all or people
around Poly, you know how important goals are and goal setting is. And I met
with our Leadership Team last month and we talked about (you know) the aspects
of goal setting, being quantifiable, writing them down, being focused toward it
and we talked about all the ins and outs and I said to them… they know how
important it is to me that they set goals because goals are so much a part of
everything we do here, everything I do in my personal life but I don’t want to
know if they set goals and I told them the reason that I didn’t was because
it’s not something that they are going to do because I ask them to do it. If
you set goals and they’re important to you it’s because you are trying to
accomplish something and you have a passion and a conviction to accomplish that
feat.
But I did end it with this… I said, “Why
would I make future plans with people that don’t have plans for the
future.” Let that sink in and remember… You Can’t Cheat The Grind.
GW here for another episode of Make It Happen
Monday, a motivational minute to help you attack and win the week.
Well, I’m lucky enough to be hunting at Beaver
Creek Plantation in South Georgia over some world-class dogs and one thing that
makes a good bird dog priceless is discipline. Keeping in mind that discipline
applies to our lives, especially on our goal setting and goal achievement, as
important as anything else. So take a lesson from Fancy here… YOU Can’t Cheat
The Grind.
