COMMUNITY: OUT ON THE STREET TIPS FOR ENHANCING YOUR INTERNAL CULTURE A strong internal company culture is key to enhanced customer service, employee retention and recruitment, and business success. In our Winter/Spring 2017 edition of Thriving! local business leaders shared with us how they and their employees live out their company's core values daily. We learned about Atomic Design's Running and Fun Clubs that align with their value of "individuality;" and Pennsylvania's Auto Auction's work with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Save a Warrior and river clean-ups that reinforce their "commitment to be good citizens of the communities they serve." To follow-up on this concept, I took to the streets and asked individuals to share what their company does to enhance internal culture. Check out how these companies are living out their corporate values by having strong internal cultures. 46 | LANCASTERTHRIVING! | Spring/Summer2017 Nelson Longenecker, Vice President - Business Innovation Four Seasons Family of Companies "'Mission and Core Values in Action.' These true life stories about associates are told within our organization as examples of our mission 'Growing Ideas, Producing Excellence' or our core values of Integrity, Dynamic Leadership, Exceptional Partnerships and Winning Culture. The associate is given a copy of a certificate and a medallion to recognize that they exemplify an aspect of our culture that we want to preserve. The certificates are also posted in several places in our office to remind people of our enduring mission and values. We have continued this practice for the past 12 years, replacing older certificates with more recent examples as we award them."http://www.lancasterchamber.com/log.aspx?type=KWMB&rt=MEMB&url=www.fsproduce.com https://www.nxtbook.com/hoffmann/LancasterThriving/LancasterThriving_WinterSpring2017/#/24 http://www.lancasterchamber.com/log.aspx?type=KWMB&rt=MEMB&url=www.atomicdesign.tv http://www.lancasterchamber.com/log.aspx?type=KWMB&rt=MEMB&url=www.manheim.com