Assertive Professionals (AP) embodies a true employee-centric culture fundamentally based in the morale, development, and celebration of its employees. AP’s executive staff works tirelessly to ensure that their employee’s personal and professional needs, as well as their families needs are always prioritized. Through such commitment, employees within AP project a shared resilience in achieving organizational objectives – and as such are continuously recognized for their efforts.
An example from my personal experience outlines my first interactions with AP while deployed to Iraq in 2017 when my then company was removed from the task order I was supporting. As a result, I was subsequently reallocated to AP becoming one of their first twenty employees. Tiffany, Steven, Nicole, and Chris proactively established open lines of communication with myself as well as my wife to ensure that the transition went as seamless as possible. Tiffany even scheduled our routine phone calls during that time for 3:00 AM EST to best accommodate my current hours of operation – a simple gesture offered because of her awareness of how demanding working in such conditions can be, and how inconvenient that transition process could have been. Mind you she was still managing a growing business during normal business hours. The level of appreciation for that gesture can’t be overstated.
During this same time, Tiffany, Chris, and Nicole communicated daily with my wife to ensure that she felt the same level of inclusivity that all AP employees feel. They provided her guidance during the transition, and mentored her in how to balance the responsibilities of the supportive role that she was filling for me at the time, while also working as a health care provider in a start up clinic in Fayetteville, NC. They put forth so much effort to remove so many of the distractions, both personal and professional that so often times effect deployed workers and their families so that my wife and I could both focus on our daily tasks to best support our customers. Upon my return home from deployment, Tiffany, Steven, and Nicole all traveled to my town to welcome me home and to thank me – wow! The subsequent interactions I’ve experienced with AP over the last two years have never deviated from simplistic and enjoyable nature detailed during my initial hire.
AP’s executives routinely engage their employees and families about the company’s internal policies and practices, listen with intent when feedback is provided, and continuously shape and/or modify policies around what best meet the needs of their employees and their families. AP encourages participation from their employee’s and their spouses during business development meetings so that all members included understand the goals of the organization, the direction that will be traveled to achieve said goals, and what the roles of AP employees will be during that time. It should be noted that often time’s employees within AP are engaged for interest in advancement opportunities within these new initiatives.
Since my initial employment, I’ve maintained open communication on a near daily basis with the executive team. I’ve never felt detracted in voicing what my personal and professional goals were, the roles I wanted to fill within AP, and communicating how AP was going to work with me while achieving those objectives.
