Hi, my name is Candice Elliott, and I am a human resources strategist. I work with business leaders to develop HR systems that are based on their unique worldview that help them attract ideal, awesome employees and that help them mitigate their risk for lawsuits and other kinds of things. [00:00:30] In this video, I'm going to be talking about the three ways to incorporate your worldview into your company.
Oftentimes, I've found that our worldviews are really essential to why we have started our businesses in the first place. For example, with my company, Fortress and Flourish, my reason for getting into the practice of human resources is [00:01:00] that many years ago, I was very adrift and alone, and it was through work that I found a means to provide for myself and also meaning and a purpose for what I was doing. It was through work, at that time starting my very first business, [00:01:30] that I was able to overcome a lot of challenges that I have.
I work in my community, supporting people who are experiencing homelessness, and there are many, many challenges to that life. One of those challenges is finding a way back into work. Part of why [00:02:00] I started Fortress and Flourish was to be able to create workplaces, to help, to foster workplaces that allow people to be themselves and allow them to flourish in their workplace. Regardless of their background, regardless of what they look like, or who they've been in the past, but if they are a person who fits what an [00:02:30] employer is looking for in their business, that we'd be able to bring that person into the business and help them to grow and thrive. That's one example of how a worldview can be a part of the establishment of a business.
The first thing that I would recommend as you're considering this approach to human resources or this approach to talking about [00:03:00] your company is to write down your founding story. How did you start your company? Why did you start your company? What did it look like in the beginning? Oftentimes, the first days of a company are much different from what they end up looking like 5 or 10 years down the line. What is your founding story, and what are the essential elements of that story? That's number one.
Number [00:03:30] two is, what are the significant events that have happened since you have started your business that are aligned with your worldview and what you truly care about? What are the major projects that you finished or the partners that you had, or what are the big milestones, and how do those fit into that origin story and into what you're doing [00:04:00] in the workplace right now?
Then, the third piece, after you've really thought about your origin story and all of your milestones, is incorporating that into your interviewing process and your onboarding process and telling these stories. One of the foundational elements of culture is the stories that we tell and the language that we use. As you [00:04:30] are defining these stories, it's really important to tell them, to get them out there. It's really wonderful when you tell your employee a story, and then, you hear them telling that story to another person who is outside of the company or someone who's new to the company or when they have their own stories that they started telling about the company. These are three steps to take to bring your worldview into your company.Â
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