PERSPECTIVES ON BUCKNER | ALBERT L. REYES What we value
The next 10-15 years will see some of the most dramatic shifts in the history of the American workforce as baby boomers, my genera- tion, move off the scene, and millennials move in. By 2020 to 2025, millennials will be the majority generation working in this country. A hallmark of the millennial generation is a holistic view of the workplace and the world around them, as they bring a unique passion for the world and a desire to transform where they live and work. As you can imagine, a ministry like Buckner sees this desire every day as more and more millennials see an organization like ours as a great place to work and at the same time, fulfill their passion to serve and make the world a better place.
Every generation of Buckner staff for the past 13 decades, regard- less of what demographers call them, has been drawn to the mission and purpose of Buckner. We stand on 135 years of serving others in the name of Jesus Christ and we are ever mindful that we inherited this great task, first as a commission from Jesus himself, and second, as a sacred trust started in 1879 by R.C. Buckner. We talk a lot about the people we help and serve through Buckner. Buckner Today is full of stories about lives transformed through our ministry. But what about the people who serve? Who are the people who work at Buckner, these “transformers?” This past summer, we clearly defined our organizational values,
which I’ve incorporated as part of this issue’s Perspectives on Buckner. These values define who we are and tell us how we should behave. Our Buckner values help us know who we are so that our staff knows how to behave.
Patrick Lencioni in “The Advantage” writes, “The importance of values in creating clarity and enabling a company to become healthy cannot be overstated. More than anything else, values are critical because they define a company’s personality.” Lencioni says a key for any organization is to understand what it will not tolerate. “If an orga- nization is tolerant of everything, it will stand for nothing,” he writes. It’s important to understand that these values are not new to Buckner. The values of being Christ-like, having a servant spirit, and being passion-driven have been in our DNA from the first day three orphans came to live at Buckner Orphans Home in 1879. What we’ve done with the document you see on this page is put who we are on paper to give us even greater clarity and alignment. Ultimately the benefit of this exercise does not end with a piece of paper that makes us feel better about who we are. The ultimate benefit is for those people we are fortunate to serve through Buckner in the name of Christ. By understanding our values and living by them every day, we will move closer to accomplishing our mission of transforming lives “through Christ-centered values.” Those are values that will endure from one generation to the next.
Albert L. Reyes, President and CEO Buckner International Visit my blog at
www.bucknerprez.com
4 Buckner Today • WINTER 2015 ISSUE
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