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16 PalletCentral • September-October 2018 palletcentral.com transparency, is a common theme in today's world. As a private family-held company, core values and transparency are absolutely necessary in order to provide equal opportunities, communication, and allowing employees to express their ideas, and maintaining our "family" atmosphere. We've started a quarterly message directly from our President as a payroll handout. The newsletter speaks volumes to our corporate mindset when it comes to our employees. We provide the newsletter in both English and Spanish. We want every employee at our company to embrace our values, policies and our standards and expectations through an open-door policy. Ideas on how we can be better, more efficient, safer are important, and valued. We are listening because we know it will only make us better and stronger. I know that our prior and future successes have been, and will be, because of the people within our organization. There is no question that we are "production driven" and feel that if we practice the values mentioned above, that we will continue to have dynamic employees for the long term. DEBRA BERRY CEO BERRY INDUSTRIAL P rior to being an employer, I was an employee. Before owning my own company, I worked for over a decade in the printing industry. During that time, I worked for several companies and experienced different leadership styles. When I started my own company, I vowed to treat my employees how I wanted to be treated when I was the employee. First and foremost, I try to listen. I treat them all with respect. All of my employees are empowered to make decisions and will receive my support. I encourage them to take a broader view of their specific job in relation to the rest of the company. Everyone is trained to do their job as well as someone else's as I feel this develops a deeper understanding of how the different jobs influence each other within the company. Finally, I always say "please" and "thank you" and recognize that the company's success is truly a group effort. PC LEADERS