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“Culture is everyone’s responsibility. It doesn’t matter your role in your organization. You will have the opportuni- ty to make everyone’s day better or you can make it worse, and culture starts at the leadership level,” she said. “Who is
engage online, spark curiosity, and talk about what it is that we do in the packaging industry. I will tell you that our members are also using it as a recruitment tool,” she said. She also announced that the deadline to enter the 81st annual 2024 North America Paperboard Packaging Com- petition has been extended to May 17. Rules and guide- lines are available at paperbox.org . Additionally, PPC's nominee for the 2024 Woods Schol- ar Award is Hayden Poirier, Mechanical Engineer at South- ern Champion Tray in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Creative Leadership Two of the event speakers, Lisa Ryan, MBA, CSP and founder of Grategy, and Mark Brothers, Senior Vice Presi- dent of Human Resources at RRD Solutions, were selected as part of PPC’s leadership and workforce development initiatives offering solutions to address the challenge of at- tracting and retaining talented staff members. In an interactive presentation, Ryan emphasized the value of work culture in attracting and keeping good em- ployees. In the “awesome, average, and awful” categories of bosses, Ryan said that it is the awesome bosses who create a work environment where employees can thrive and are given opportunities that allow them to grow. Em- ployers can’t afford to keep toxic employees because too often it results in the best employees leaving the company, she said.
it for you? Is it that recep- tionist that lights up the room when people come in? Is it that person in the plant who is running that line like they’re the boss? Start paying attention to the people who are lit up and make those invita- tions because you have no idea how you can im- pact the lives of the peo- ple who work for you.” Managers, however, tend to raise their people
the way that they were raised, Ryan said. “If you as a leader were never thanked, you never felt valued, you never felt appreciated for what you did — you’re going to do the same for your people,” she said. “What are those characteristics that we can start to adopt? Because when we get the culture right, it makes up for a whole bunch.” Ryan said that small gestures, made through acts of ap- CONTINUED ON PAGE 26 Lisa Ryan was a featured speak- er on creative leadership.
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