Build some company pride
Majestic’s employees were quick to take to the charitable
ideas thrown out by Roski, and even he was surprised by the
extent to which they wanted to help. Though he knew that he
wanted the company to do more than just sign checks, employees came back willing to work with nonprofits on many levels,
offering up time and energy as well as expertise.
As a result, Majestic began to build teamwork within the
company around this charitable work. The big business goal of
Majestic still existed for employees, but there was also a more
personalized charitable goal that made people feel good about
themselves.
“We’re actively involved and hire consultants for them and
make sure they are really focused and accomplishing their
dreams because there’s quite a few nonprofits out there that
are founded on great ideas and dreams, and sometimes they
also need help to accomplish those things,” he says.
As a result of helping with different options in areas beyond
financial giving, Roski noted that involvement with the
Majestic Foundation is blossoming.
“Our company is extremely involved in all the foundation
work,” he says. “I would say we probably have 85 to 90 percent
participation from the company, whether it’s the fund-raisers
we do or actually working in different nonprofits, not just supporting their kid in little league but actually getting very, very
involved, and it’s kind of contagious — as people get involved,
others get involved.”
At the end of the day, Roski doesn’t get 100 percent of his
employees throwing themselves into the charity program, but he
knows that the foundation works when it comes to building
something for both community and company pride. If you can
make that step, he sees it as a big boon to your ability to fulfill
employee desires.
“I think people have to really be proud of where they work,” he
says. “If they are, and they think where they work is really making a difference in the community where they live in, with all
other things being equal, that’s where they are going to stay. And
I think in our company, it’s probably one of the reasons that people stick around so long is they really think they are making a difference.”
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