Workplace

How would you describe the culture of your workplace? Do you see communication and collaboration among employees? What about stress management or problem solving? These character skills are essential to a company culture where employees strive for excellence.

Fundamental to success, these four focus areas can guide your organization to achieving your goals.

Excellence

Committing to high standards and continuous improvement through work ethic
Committing to goal achievement
Exhibiting critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and innovation

Integrity

Demonstrating emotional intelligence, integrity, and responsibility
Ethical decision-making

Teamwork

Communicating and collaborating with efficiency and effectiveness
Developing teamwork through positive and productive relationships

Self-Development

Managing priorities and time
Overcoming obstacles, focusing on growth, and reducing stress
Living a purposeful, balanced, and healthy life

Our research-based approach can help your mission, vision and values come to life as your team learns the skills to be well-rounded employees of the 21st century, where excellence and ethics are critical components to success.

We Can Help

Our team can assist you in evaluating your needs and selecting the services that will help meet your goals.

Assessment

Understanding the culture of your organization is the essential first step in gaining a competitive edge. Our employee surveys can provide you with an inside look at the culture of your company

The Workplace Culture Assessment gathers parallel data from employees and leadership. Results will help you understand:

workplace culture
existing character skills that drive their performance
your current leadership practices that shape the organization’s culture
which character skills are critical to your organization’s success
which skills areas need the most attention.

Learn more about our assessment opportunities.

Professional Development

Our flexible, engaging training is aligned with your organization’s mission, vision, and values.

We will work with you to design customized solutions based on our research-based framework. Our field-proven tools and strategies will allow your organization to tap into the full potential of your people and your mission.

We will focus on building skills that drive performance, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Ultimately, we will help your leadership team build an intentional culture where the highest level of excellence achieved with integrity becomes the new norm.

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Don’t wait another day to get a competitive edge!

We’d love to provide a free consultation to discuss how we can help you reach your goals.

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Success Stories

"The materials provided are great tools that help managers prepare and facilitate productive conversations within a team or organization and build long-term leadership skills."

Laura Edwards

Director, Retail Development

Hy-Vee, Inc.

"The Ray Center has been excellent to work with. They took our needs into consideration and tailored curriculum to accomplish our desired outcomes. I was very pleased with both the process and the outcome."

Michele Wilkie

Sr. VP, Administration

Prairie Meadows

"It's one of the first times I felt like there's an organization that can really evolve with us."

Leslie Irlbeck

Deputy Director
Metro Waste Authority

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COMPANIES WITH STRONG CULTURES SEE A 4X INCREASE IN REVENUE GROWTH.

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50% OF LEADERS REPORTED THAT CORPORATE CULTURE INFLUENCES PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PROFITABILITY, FIRM VALUE AND GROWTH RATES.

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92% OF LEADERS SAID THEY BELIEVED IMPROVING THEIR ORGANIZATIONS CULTURE WOULD IMPROVE THE VALUE OF THE COMPANY.

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Building Culture

Strategy and planning will never outperform your culture. All of the strategic plans in the world won’t overcome poor work ethic, bad teamwork, or a lack of accountability.

Your job as a leader is to create a culture that encourages positive behaviors and develops the character needed for your employees to perform at its best.

Case Study

MidAmerican Energy

Like many in their industry, MidAmerican Energy continuously strives to be quick nimble, and creative at solving their customers’ challenges. The organization wanted to transform its culture to be more mission-driven and customer-focused.

To help meet these goals, we developed customized professional development focused on MidAmerican’s Customer First initiative.

Resource

Be a Catalyst for Civility

Practicing civil behavior establishes a safe and empathetic environment where individuals can contribute their best ideas, knowing they will be heard and valued. Civility is more than making others feel comfortable; it’s about creating a dynamic, diverse, and productive workplace where everyone can thrive.

The Society for Human Resource Management’s Civility Starter Kit contains the latest SHRM Civility Index and new tools for fostering civil conversations. Use it as your guide to cultivating a more civil and productive workplace.