2015 Winter Team Summit
By: Justin Thomas, CEO
It’s one of my favorite times of the year: Christmas and our Winter Team Summit! It has been an exciting year with CrossComm being named the 2015 Minority Tech Firm of the Year, receiving “Best Media App” for our work on the U30 App with Forbes, and moving offices to the American Underground. We took two days to pause, reflect, and plan for 2016. Based on my business background and personality type, I absolutely love these strategy sessions.
We focused on what really matters- inspiring our team and listening to our clients. I firmly believe in the Service Profit Chain Theory, which links employee satisfaction to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Given this research, it naturally makes sense to ensure that our team is highly motivated. We strive to accomplish this using Daniel Pink’s research that highlights three motivation factors for creative professionals by ensuring each role enjoys Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. During the Summit we explored what this practically looks like in our unique business and culture with the team.
Building upon culture, we spent time reviewing what already exists- our core values. These may be a future blog post to dive into in greater detail, but they are an important highlight to share from the session. We refreshed these values and streamlined them to the following: Â
Health- we value honesty, integrity, and emotional health in all relationships and for our team members to be physically and mentally healthy
Excellence- we value excellence in the quality of our products and services which means they are beautiful and awesome to use while being structurally sound
Daily Enthusiasm- we value working with passion and with people who are also working in their “sweet spot” and pleasant to be around
Creative Collaboration- we value individuals asking “why” and coming prepared with thoughtful ideas while appreciating that the best outcome is discovered through collaboration with a team
Meaningful Work- we value partnering with meaningful companies doing extraordinary work  Â
As you can imagine it was a full two day experience outside of the presentations and discussions with plenty of coffee, food, treats, and even a team building exercise where we helped package 10,000+ servings for Stop Hunger Now.Â
Our passion is to enrich the lives of others by building awesome apps together. The Winter Summit helped us pause, reflect on this passion, and be inspired to live this out in 2016 for our team and clients.
If this culture and team environment appeals to you, we are currently hiring a Sr Android developer and would love to hear from you; or if you have an app project and are seeking a development partner we are currently scheduling new clients for Q2 in 2016 and would also love to connect. Â
