3. • Lay of the land: Culture today
• Pour Your Foundation: Key elements of a sustainable culture
• Take Your Measurements: How to Measure Culture
• Start Building: Culture Builder Bootcamp [Dec 9-11, SF]
• You time! Ask us anything
Our hour
Set your culture up for success for 2016
4. • Questions? GoToWebinar tool bar, anytime
Ask or share anything! We want to get to know you : )
• More questions? Tweet! #happyculture
Get your bearings
Is this thing on?
YES! We’ll share this preso, we’ll tell you how at the end : )
5. First name
Where are you joining from?
What’s one thing you love about your culture?
Type it in the question box
Let’s connect.
9. The conversation we’re having
CULTURE
What is the value of culture
What are the best companies doing
Why does employee happiness matter
What is culture
17. The Good Jobs
The Good Jobs™
Culture Badges
help to build
awareness and
differentiation
based on culture.
18. The Good Jobs
Source: The Good Jobs asked 1700 active + passive candidates October, 2015
97% crave culture!
(communicate it!)
19. Pop-chat question!
How strong is your culture foundation today?
1 – It’s structurally sound, needs minor tweaks
2 – It’s outdated, needs a full tune up
3 – It’s a total tear-down, needs to start from scratch
23. Zappos Core Values
1. Deliver WOW Through Service
2. Embrace and Drive Change
3. Create Fun and a Little Weirdness
4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5. Pursue Growth and Learning
6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8. Do More with Less
9. Be Passionate and Determined
10. Be Humble
Unique, Lived, Co-owned, Guidelines
24. Integrity
• Follow through with what you say you’re going to do
• Only say things to others that you will say to their face
30. The DH Model
These elements in action, in our systems
• Marketing & Brand
Design
• Group Meetings
• Feedback, Evaluations
• Benefits, Perks,
Incentives
• Learning & Development
• Rewards/Recognition
• Hiring & Onboarding
• Org Structure
• Product/Service Design
• Internal Communication
• Physical Space & Décor
• Impact Strategy/CSR
• Company Events
37. Values & Behaviors
85% | I live my life in ways
that reflect and support my
personal core values.
61% | My organization
has done a great job
communicating which
explicit behaviors I can
do to live out our
organizational values.
“I really don't have a good grasp of how leadership is
connecting the core values to the daily work.”
72
73
38. Happiness score
80% | I live in, and embrace,
the present moment.
67% | My colleagues
live in and
embrace the
present
moment.
“A lot of multi-tasking, quick to shift gears, focusing on many
things at once.”
72
78
39. Purpose score
78% | I understand how my
work helps achieve our
organization's higher
purpose.
51% | I know the
personal higher
purposes of most
of my colleagues.
“This purpose needs to be elucidated and held as the overall strategic
umbrella to all business decisions -- currently is not ”
72
70
40. Systems score
81% | Customer service 61% | Feedback and
performance
reviews
“All built in consultation with our customers. This is why they like the
services so much--because they had a hand in designing the program.”
72
6878
42. Ordering takeout?
+ Sustainable Culture drives business success. Individuals with a Culture Sustainability
Score of > 80% (about ¼ of you) have higher productivity and retention scores.
+ Leadership buy-in matters. Those organizations with leaders who embrace culture
have significantly higher Culture Sustainability scores.
+ This group is passionate about culture (> 90%) and doing a good job (78%) of
applying happiness principles (control, progress, connectedness) and habits (gratitude,
altruism, mindfulness, optimism and flow).
72
43. Ordering takeout?
- You are not measuring and tracking your culture (50%).
- While you are individually purpose and values driven, your organizations could foster
more communication around the personal purposes and values of your colleagues.
- Though you’ve done a decent job at defining your culture, there should be more
focus more on embedding it intentionally in the organizational systems, which is your
lowest scoring element.
72
44. Pop-chat question!
Are you measuring culture?
1 – Yes! We want to know where we are.
2 – I guess we could, but not sure how.
3 – Not at all. I don’t even know where to start.
46. You’re invited! Dec 9th-11th
• Interactive [and highly fun] 2 to 3 day experience
• Full foundation for building a values-based culture
• Accessible and scalable way to get your culture ready!
48. Day 1
dhworld.me/culturebootcamp
• Private Jenn Lim keynote
• Personal & Org Values & Higher Purpose
• How to align for impact
• Assessment results
• Evening public panel with local culture innovators
49. Day 2
dhworld.me/culturebootcamp
• Culture Field Trip!
• 3 Levers: progress control connectedness
• Guest speaker
• Your culture action plan
• DH Culture Builder certificate
50. Day 3: deep dive!
dhworld.me/culturebootcamp
• Deep dive for serious culture builders
• High coach to guest ratio
• Culture inventroy checklist
• Culture initiative building
• Your culture roadmap, approach, challenged
51. Join us :]
$500 off for you!
Through Nov20th.
CULTURE2015
bootcamp@deliveringhappiness.com
dhworld.me/culturebootcamp
52. 2016 is around the corner…
How will you change your world?
#happyculture
58. 30 CINEMAS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
“COOLEST MOVIE THEATER IN THE WORLD” –
CONCEPT OF HIGHER PURPOSE WAS NONEXISTENT, WE WORKED ROBOTICALLY WITH
OUR VALUES AND MISSION. THE EXEC ALIGNMENT SESSION WITH DH CHANGED IT.
Building Sustainable Culture
59. GOVERNMENT OF DUBAI
Launching happiness in Dubai, starting with the Prime Minister’s Office
Building Sustainable Culture
START 30mins early – meet in webinar
At 5 min before- round robin what are each of our intentions?
Virtual hands in
Sign up question ideas:
what's the one obstacle in the way of getting your culture in shape?
Where is your culture weak spot?
How are you approaching culture in 2016?
What do you think your culture really needs to get in shape?
WELCOME! Hello & connect
GOALS- welcome, comfortable, energy, two way conversation, real, human
Here’s what we have in store for you this hour together… so you know you’re in the right place: )
With the new year around the corner it’s time to start thinking about how to set up your best culture
What creates a truly happy, successful, and sustainable culture?
Wis your blueprint for creating your best culture?
How to measure it- reveal your culture to itself for an authentic starting point to continue to build your best culture in 2016
Don’t want a one way street, want to hear from you too! We’re big on connection, one of the elements of happiness at work.
GoToWebinar has a polling feature which we will be using – it’s a bit clunky, so it will look like we disappear but I PROMISE we’ll just ask you to share your feedback and vote – AND then, we’ll share results and return back to the slides.
Also, throughout the presentation, we’ve asked a few members of our teams to help with your questions and Tweets, so please engage with us. We would love to hear what you’re thinking for the next hour.
for the next hour.
Oh, and! We’ll share the ppt with you too. Fyi so you know for your organized note-taking side… we’ll share how in the end
We want to get to know you and make it as interactive and dynamic as we can
In fact we don’t even like word webinar as it’s come to connote a flat, one way conversation
Think of it as a WoW-inar / Conenctinar
What’s one thing working about your culture? Gonna talk about what’s not later, but we’re all about building on positives
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Hosts: talk to each other, call out callers, make connections! ie i lived there one summer, my parents are there…
Culture is HOT right now..
Just google culture, see everyone getting in on the conversation
From the topic of culture being a hot topic, to the value of a happy culture, to remote cultures
Culture is no longer a curiosity of a few risky leading companies, it’s a robust conversation
And yet….
Yet… this is who’s still predominantly showing up to work in the world. That’s right, uncle Milton!
You think this isn’t you, none of us want to be miton
But this is 9 in 10 of us, almost every day this is someone in the office next to us
And there’re days this is us
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And it’s costing us
$550B – 550,000, 000,000 =9- ‘0’s!
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71%(2012/13?) >> 67% (2013/14?) US workforce
It’s getting better but still big problem
And big gap between what we know about happiness, and what we’re doing about it
We’re having the conversation and this number is getting BETTER in the US we’re at 67% disengaged
But there’s still a gap- why?
We’re having some good conversations about culture- evolving nicely- such as….
But also part of the conversation has to be WHERE is culture found
And how do you create an enduring, authentic culture
(next level of conversation for many org’s)
It’s everywhere! [read some…]
It’s everywhere! But some areas get all the attention- ping pong, dog walking, lunch
Perks are great but on their own they can be superficial, about quick fixes,
They work when they support a deeper foundation
That’s what we want to talk about this hour, how to (re) build your foundation for 2016
To do that we need to go deeper into the motivation and drive
And make sure we’re addressing it from a more foundational level
Once you do, and you have that foundation set, you can have fun testing and building on top of it, in so many ways in 2016
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but it's something deeper than that, those are just a few elements that contribute to the culture- in sea of things:from management to food offered to office environment to policies, philosophies, values, behaviors
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In many cases it’s about the quick fixes, superfacial things to address immediate problems (think attraction, retention, productivity)
Adding the easy things: ping pong, beam bags & salad bars
Things that can beautifully help define a cullture (think zappos, FB, google) when they’re built upon an intentional foundation
But there has to be a deeper WHY or intention of them
Ie great you have salad bar free lunch! It’s the why that matters and can define your culture. Is it because you want employees to stay and work lunch? Then you’re defining a culture of commitment, work hard play hard, etc. Or is it so emp’s can connect with each other, and form more meaningful relationships? And your culture is more about connection, teamwork, collaboration.
To define a culture by DESIGN not by DEFAULT you have to go beyond the bean bags and under the salad bar.
The why matters!
The result we’re seeing is short term culture gains. The impact of ‘oh cool perks maybe ill work there!’
Sustainable culture is much more than bean bags and casual fridays
Not just set it and forget it, and not easy or everyone would have great culture
About values & attitudes in action, about how ppl live it
And about the WHY behind them
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If your’re not intentionally evolving your culture, is it evolving you?
get curious.. what stories are ppl telling, what values are they living?
ask, what are you really rewarding and reinforcing? Not in policies, but in behaviors? Sometimes its just a matter of allowing it..
Like tony did with zappos, which was a huge part of their success..
From that foundation they never stop innovating and layering..
0-2B by focusing on their culture on deeper level, at the root they focused on happiness
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How do we really want our culture to motivate ppl, toward being the best in customer service
What are the deeper levels of motivation we need to build to sustainably be a culture of great cust service
When you do establish a thoughtful foundation for your culture, and build it on the deeper level of what your culture is about and how you want to define it and motivate ppl… it does take longer, more of a commitment, but the results speak for themselves! (zappos $0-$2B 10yr*gross merch sales)
For those of you who aren’t familiar…
From z’s success, tony n jenn produced the book in 2010
About how every company has a unique culture and how happiness can be applied to business
Became best seller in 20 languages, turned into a bus tour, movement…
Then company DH a year later…
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Before we dive into the presentation – I want to talk about what inspired me to be part of the Delivering Happiness movement
In 2010, the CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, wrote a book called Delivering Happiness. The book inspired me. It made me think about how EVERY COMPANY has a unique culture. It’s not about being Zappos – it’s about Zappos example to be authentic. The Good Jobs was created to help companies to be really transparent about their culture so job seekers can get an insider’s view of that company – through the lens of culture.
Delivering Happiness and The Good Jobs collaboration was inevitable!
Since 2010 (book) or 2011 (DH co) we’ve worked with 250 co’s in 30 countries These are some of the co’s…
And we’ve seen results like these…
We’re excited to share some of that with you today!
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Aug 2011 DH the company born
We created The Good Jobs to help companies to ATTRACT great talent like you. Most companies share their cultures AFTER you start working there. We think that’s backwards. The most successful employers need to share all the great stuff they do for their employees and their community BEFORE someone applies for a job – it’s the only way you’ll know if you will be a good culture-fit. Some companies already do this – companies like Zappos and Google invest in building unique cultures – but every company has a unique culture – just most don’t communicate it. The Good Jobs is changing that.
We work with companies of all sizes to help them to leverage culture as a way to attract great talent.
We work with companies of all sizes to help them to leverage culture as a way to attract great talent.
We work with companies of all sizes to help them to leverage culture as a way to attract great talent.
To get your culture ready for 2016 and we first need to build a strong foundation
Focusing on the key elements.. Let’s look at those!
(30mins)
Before we jump in what’s the our foundation for these elements we’re about to share?
From principles in the book > what we learned on bus tour >
Taked to studying pos psych research from aristotle to maslow
to martin > barbara > worked with shaun > newcomers like GGSC= leading center to study emotions at UC berkeley
From these sources put together key elements for unique sustainable culture in a model… dh model…
WHAT: Key ingredients to a happy, sustainable culture
We’ve learned that the key ingredients for a Happy ME and WE are surprisingly exactly the same:
FOUDATION: Values + Behaviors
the things you stand for and the actions you need to back them up
this is a foundational element to get the culture right
note the word behaviors, the values have to be lived, in action for them to influence culture
Main tool to DEFINE culture… way to encode the culture in the DNA
core values – offered concrete way to create, build and train on culture
but still allow for culture to grow organically, and ppl to be happy, instead endless rules
Should be
unique (google test!)
able to use as guidelines for decisions
lived in the talk n walk & co owned
& measured (measure what we’re serious about)
ie #1 wow measured in cookies & flowers sent to customers, if wowing should be sending
Values are just words on a wall, unless they’re lived
Defining behaviors clarify core values
provides clear path to live value, and to measure living the value
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Clarify value, clear path to live
Allow org to measure progress toward living them
Recognition and coaching tool for peers, leaders
Examples for a PT chain we worked with- 2 of their values – Fukuji and Lum PT, HI
LAYER IN: Science of happiness
The skills and habits that research shows demonstrates make us happier and more successful
Progress, control & connectedness as core focus here, use them like levers to apply to create happier culture
Add in most highly researched happiness habits things like gratitude optimism and flow
Z’s merchandising team… came in, 18months to ASSISTANT BUYER, so far off didn’t feel sense of progress
Broke it up into 3 small promotions, with celebration at each stage
Didn’t cost anything, found emp’s lot happier feeling they were moving toward goal
IS NOT ONLY ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU WORK BUT THE SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT & EVOULTION
At z’s can decorate desk with anything!
Can even drink at work. But nobody gets drunk.
STRONGER THE CULTURE THE MORE PPL UNDERSTAND THE GUIDELINES, THE MORE FREEDOM CAN BE GIVEN TO ACT WITHIN THOSE
Higher Purpose – being part of something bigger than ourselves, connected to something larger
Deepest why, a north star, a reason for being to guide not just culture, decisions as well
So key and so well researched it’s practically common knowledge, but it’s not commonly applied
Zappos is a great example of an org. with a higher purpose- beyond self, profits
Their purpose of Delivering Happiness is on every box!
This connects the product and employees to a higher purpose.
Take it seriously, it is their job.. Not just selling shoes they are DHing…Sunny story…
Zappos staff encouraged to Deliver Happiness to customers via hand-written thank you cards, videos, flowers and cookies.
This takes extra time and money, but because it carries out the Zappos higher purpose they do it anyway!
Ie zappos embeds 10 cv’s in hiring system- even CV10
how do you measure that? can’t ask (I am soo humble!) ..so ask shuttle driver…[pic]
When you have these elements working together, in your systems, ops and behaviors, you have a WoW culture
Alignment
Alignment is the element that allows the individuals to operate within the team as their full self with autonomy but under a common, shared code (like a flock of birds flying as individuals but together)
Talking points on how the model works
The foundational elements of happiness already exist inside yourself and inside your organization; your job is to uncover them, identify them, and intentionally live them
To bring these elements to life, Individuals and organizations both need self-awareness so they can define who they are and then tactics so they can fully bring that best self into the world on a daily basis.
If you use these three ingredients to help individual employees (ME) and your entire org (WE) be happy, you have a WOW culture - gives your org a competitive advantage and maximizes Profits.
We here at DH aren’t the only ones that think values are important. You may have heard a famous guy named Ghandi. Right, THAT Ghandi. Here’s what he had to say about values:
[READ Quote]
So Ghandi believed that our thoughts, words, actions, and habits all amount to what our values are, and that our values determine our destiny! Pretty intense stuff, huh?
We’ve seen one of the challenges in culture is to actually elevate the level of the conversation to the level it get adoption. We’ve done a lot of work with a number of you on how to have strategic culture conversations. Often the best way is through qualitative and quantitative data.
Using quantitative and qualitative data can be a huge help in starting these converstaions
We’ll use this to guide our conversation – and we’ll do it with our own results!
Ie we worked with companies where their culture was blocked, stalled but the conversation was also dead
By a small sample taking the survey and seeing the data and their company’s culture reflected in the results in a different way, it reignited the converation in such a powerful way they were able to start building the culture
About 70 of you took the assessment, for those of you who didn’t it’s just going to walk us through the key elements of sustainable happiness
Here’s how we scored overall.. And the main elements that contributed to it
The way we embede those 4 main elements into our org or our systems brings us to the overall culture sustainablity score of just ____
Ok, so we took a quick glance at your scores, and now you can kind of see how all the pieces fit together.
Cursory insights
Cursory insights
Are you measuring culture?
Not at all / Kinda / Sometimes / Consistently
Overall goal- foundation for building sustainable culture
Dec 9-11, in SF, middle dot com boom 2 some best tech co’s world
Usually go on site at DH but lot of org’s not possible for time or money
This is awseome way to get lot of info short amt time, learn everything we do takes much more time & $$ on site
It’s packed with information and experience for you to go home a culture builder
Overall goal- foundation for building sustainable culture
Dec 9-11, in SF, middle dot com boom 2 some best tech co’s world
Day 1-
Private Jenn Key & Personal & Org VALUES & PURPOSE & how to align for impact & ASSESSMENT RESULTS
& Eveing public pannel local culture innovators experience sf culture scene
Day 2 – culture field trip to airbnb – 3 levers experience – your culture action plan
Day 3 – deep dive serious culture builders- high coach to builder ratio – look at building your culture roadmap, using assessment result and culture inventory checklist – create culture initiative work with challenges you might face as single culture champ effecting culture organically, or as part of leadership wanting to craft a well thought out approach…
Email us
Discounts for teams of 3 and 5
And $500 off for you! 2 or 3 day track - register by nov 20 next Friday - code CULTURE2016
ultimately we are all winners in the game of happiness, because everyone benefits: individuals, teams, the whole organization, and customers and/or clients!
by changing YOUR world, we can change THE world
One last exercise – what will you do? Turn to TWO ppl next to you in group of three, tell them one thing you will do
Then tell us! sunny@dh.com
your culture AND happiness is waiting!
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There has never, in the history of the world, been as much opportunity to create the life and work that we want to enjoy. If we want to change our own workplace environment, much less have an impact on the future of work in general, I believe we must become detectives, students and explorers.
Becoming a detective is about taking the time to examine how we see the world and requires an awareness of our own maps, a willingness to challenge those old stereotypes of happiness and what work should be.
Become an Explorer. Take action. Begin the conversation in your world. Take a risk. Skillfully point out what you see at work. Ask, "Why not?" Your company may or may not understand and pursue your recommendations but when the future overwhelms them, they will remember that it was you who spoke out;
ultimately we are all winners in the game of happiness, because everyone benefits: individuals, teams, the whole organization, and customers and/or clients!
by changing YOUR world, we can change THE world
One last exercise – what will you do? Turn to TWO ppl next to you in group of three, tell them one thing you will do
Then tell us! sunny@dh.com
your culture AND happiness is waiting!
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There has never, in the history of the world, been as much opportunity to create the life and work that we want to enjoy. If we want to change our own workplace environment, much less have an impact on the future of work in general, I believe we must become detectives, students and explorers.
Becoming a detective is about taking the time to examine how we see the world and requires an awareness of our own maps, a willingness to challenge those old stereotypes of happiness and what work should be.
Become an Explorer. Take action. Begin the conversation in your world. Take a risk. Skillfully point out what you see at work. Ask, "Why not?" Your company may or may not understand and pursue your recommendations but when the future overwhelms them, they will remember that it was you who spoke out;
q’nA, if you have to run- email us!
We’ll share out the deck by end of next week, but if you can’t wait email us for that too!
So we need to go deeper into the motivation and drive – to the why- that’s the foundation of your culture we want to talk about today. Sustainable cultures are build form here.
Ask why, 5 why’s get to deeper level. That’s level we want to approach culture from
go beneath the salad bar or the ping pong tableyou can give emp's all teh benefits in the world but they're useless unless they understand WHY you're giving themgo to the WHY of ityou give a salad bar so that emp's will stay durring lunch and do more workor so that emp's connect with each other bond durring lunch and have healthy food so feel betterso what are the real WHY's of designing culture? start with they WHY (survey and these elements)and then be clear about it, design for the why, don't get stuck in the perks alone, get into their purpose, talk about them, make those the focus
… story..
> from 2010 book > woah! Sold 600k copies, world responded to idea of happiness, at work
> bus tour, talking to ppl about happiness>
> global movement 100 countries >
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600k+ copies (550K+)
5X #1 best seller … NY times and WSJ
20+ languages
world was hungry for idea happiness,
started hearing from ppl was more than book about bz, book about life
… to the company dh…
2011 DH the company was formed to inspire passion and purpose for a happier world
company and a movement
purpose to inspire passion and purpose, for a happier world
we offer culture consulting that uses the science of happiness and best practices from companies leading the way in culture
Ie cool company worked with… “Wired” called them “the coolest movie theater in the world”
Alamo’s Founder/CEO Tim League calls it “the theater for movie fans by movie fans”
They prove this with a zero-tolerance policy towards talking and texting during the movie. If you talk or text, you will receive one warning. If it happens again, you will be kicked out without a refund!
League also says, “We love being over the top. When they visit an Alamo, guests don’t simply watch movies, they create memories.”
How do you design for connection at work? Lots of ways to do this!
Example – one entrance
Example – managers 20% of their time spent with team outside of work (take lunch, etc)
AUGUSTA, zappos coach, any goal, life (not there anymore fyi have 2-3 coaches on staff now)
FeedForward (Feedback 360 2ice a year + internal coaching)
Internal coaching on anything, work and life not separated
Because the more of self can bring to work, the more of self have to give, more likely to feel progress in life, reach potential, and do best work
ROADMAP
Why important to measure
We LIVE it by embedding it in our org systems (show these embedding)
You probably know that Google is famous for their innovative strategies to keep their culture fresh and sustainable.
Here you see a unique lunchroom set up designed to encourage employees to sit in large groups, rather than alone of in small cliques…
This provides a collaborative environment that allows employees to share ideas with people that they may not normally interact with while working.
Google also designed their lunch area to give employees approximately 4 minutes to wait in the lunch line…
it turns out that this is the optimal amount of time to make employees feel as if they haven’t been waiting too long…
yet also giving them enough time to meaningfully connect with other employees who are also waiting in the line.
Ran this ad on cyber mon, busiest shopping day of year – don’t buy this jacket
Seems crazy. But HP of Patagonia not to make technical outerwear, to inspire & implement solutions to the environmental crisis
are leading voice and advocate for this greater good
ad on cyber mon, biggest shop day yr, urging ppl to reflect before buy, conserve planet resources
don’t just have a hp, live it and connect emp’s to it
worn wear – program share stories of patagonia clothes already own – movie, parties on big shopping days, trade in program, stories on site
= big connection to hp & product lives image of hp
how are you connecting to HP? Connecting emp’s great. Can you extend it to customers?
connecting emp’s to a HP has great results for bz
eddie murphy in COMING TO AMERICA
Comes here never worked day in his life gets job mopping floor at mcdowell’s
One scene guy washing lettuce in back
‘I started off mopping the floor too, now im washing lettuce, soon ill be on fries, then, the grill, pretty soon assistant manager!
arseino hall looking at him like with discust, eddie murphy is excited, sees and feels the progress, working toward something,happy mopping now but wouldn’t be for ever, give feeling for the progress
If you can’t be with us at bootcamp join us in pledging
What is one thing you will do to improve your culture in 2016?