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celebrations. Fostering empowerment
and encouragement from others in the
workplace are also key to the culture.
Canvas Innovations celebrates birthdays with lunches outside of the job, says
Ritsema, and does an end-of-summer
trip. Team meetings are held twice a
month during the busy season to uncover any issues.
"We hold our teammates accountable
for having good relationships," he says. "If
there's tension between two employees,
they're encouraged to work it out on their
own. But I do have an open-door policy
and I will step in and mediate if needed.
"We try to iron out any issues and come
up with solutions," Ritsema continues.
"We spend a lot of time together, so
it's important we treat each other with
respect. And if someone is having a bad
day, we give them grace. This has been
the way since we've opened."
Halladay says SewLong has purposefully created a culture where it is safe for
everyone to admit mistakes. As a result,
there's less of a tendency to point fingers and a greater willingness to accept
responsibility and learn from errors.
Several years back Jones and he made
a "massive leadership transformation,"
Halladay says. "All the issues we used
to blame on external factors or forces,
we no longer blame. Now, there's less
of a victim mentality and more internal
accountability."
SewLong holds 15-minute Monday
morning production meetings where
the mission statement is read by an employee. Another production meeting is
held on Wednesday mornings where the
Oyster Creek Canvas Co. is a full-service,
custom marine canvas shop that also does
production sewing of various repeat products like tool and paddle bags, as well as
hemming banners for sign companies. In
this photo, two employees, Matt and Paige,
are busy working on a project.
Photo: Oyster Creek Canvas Co.
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