All core values
People
Community
Building real connection and mutual support among the people who work together.
Behaviors
- Invests in relationships beyond transactions
- Creates spaces where people can be whole humans
- Shows up for colleagues in hard times
Anti-patterns
- Forced fun that substitutes for connection
- Cliques that exclude
- Relationships that vanish under pressure
Reinforce it with
- Team rituals that include life outside work
- Buddy and mentoring systems
- Shared meals and unstructured time
Community is what makes people stay when the work gets hard.