Putting It In Writing
Most companies have values.
They live on a poster in the break room, or buried somewhere on page four of an employee handbook nobody reads twice. They sound good. They photograph well. And then they just kind of sit there.
That is not what we are trying to do here.
Over the past several months, the leadership team at Lyons & Hohl did something we probably should have done sooner.
We sat down and tried to honestly answer a few questions.
What do we actually stand for? What kind of company are we working to become? And if a new hire, a long-time client, or someone who just heard our name for the first time looked us up, what would we want them to know about us before they ever called?
What came out of that process is now live on our website. A mission. A purpose. And four values we are committing to publicly, because we believe saying them out loud matters.
Our mission
“To be the contractor our people grow with, our clients trust, and our community is better for having.” That sentence took longer to write than it looks. Every word in it is intentional.
Our purpose
We want to be the kind of company where leadership does not start with a title. Where taking ownership, communicating clearly, and helping the people around you be their best are not policies but habits. We exist to build people as much as we build projects.
Our Core Values
We kept coming back to these when we asked ourselves what actually matters here.
People First.
Every decision starts with one question: is this good for our people? Not production. Not the schedule. Our people.
Built With Pride.
The work we do lives in the ground and on the road long after we pack up and move on. It carries our name whether there is a sign on it or not. Pride is the standard you hold yourself to when no one is watching.
Own It.
When something goes wrong, the easy move is to look outward. We are asking everyone at this company to resist that move. When you own a problem, you gain the power to solve it.
Honesty Wins.
We have been in business since 1978. That does not happen by accident. It happens because clients and crews can tell the difference between a company that tells the truth and one that does not.
Here is the part we want to be clear about. This is not an announcement that we have arrived somewhere. There is no version of this where we frame four values on a wall and consider the job done. We will fall short of these. There will be jobs, conversations, and decisions where we do not live up to them the way we should.
That is exactly why we wrote them down.
Because the companies worth working for and worth hiring are the ones willing to be held to something. We are putting it in writing because we want to be held to it.
You can read the full page at lyonshohl.com/who-we-are.