The City of Grande Prairie's Guiding Beliefs
Our Guiding Beliefs are the core of our leadership philosophy and are the standards to which we hold each other accountable.
- Service/Caring:
- Creating an environment where customers receive consideration
- Being sincere and showing respect
- Integrity:
- "Walking the talk" and keeping promises
- Being honest
- Being accountability for our actions
- Fun:
- Genuine enjoyment of work
- Cooperation:
- Respecting others' views and ideas
- Encouraging and providing opportunities for personal growth and development
- Effectively communicating
- Being helpful to one another
- Supporting employees and their families
- Flexibility:
- Being able to adjust
- Acknowledging when wrong and supporting our fellow employees
- Using our own common sense
How the CLT Lives the Guiding Beliefs
- Service/Caring
- We treat others with respect
- We are committed to the safety, health and well being of employees and ourselves
- We provide excellent service
- We support each other, our employees and their families
- We balance family and work
- Integrity
- We are open and honest in our communications
- We honour our commitments
- We share information appropriately
- We are "on-stage" 24/7
- We accept responsibility for our actions
- We give credit where credit is due
- Fun
- We are role models for appropriate fun
- We look for opportunities to celebrate
- We encourage fun at work
- Cooperation
- We share tasks and responsibilities
- We focus on succession planning
- We encourage and challenge ourselves and others
- We work collaboratively
- We share resources and ideas
- We communicate effectively and in a timely manner
- Flexibility
- We are able to adjust
- We focus on priorities
- We acknowledge when we’re wrong
- We change failure to an opportunity for learning
- We use common sense – others looking at our decisions would say "that makes sense"