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CORE VALUE: FUN
PDX Truck Shop Core Values Champions (top left, clockwise) Tim Clark, Jason Billings, and Dave Brooks
THE PROCESS
The championship title and belt are passed on each month with a vote by everyone in the PDX shop—both shop and office personnel. “When you vote monthly, you have to think back on who’s been staying late, working extra hours, doing something extra to take care of a customer, or doing something outstanding,” says Clark. “Those are the things that stick out in people’s minds and that’s how you get voted in.”
At the first JumpStart of the following month, the new champion is announced and receives the belt, then gets to hoist it up in victory. And for that entire month, the new champion leads the JumpStart meetings, with the belt proudly strapped around his/her middle. If there are any special company events during that month, the champion will show up wearing the belt as a badge of pride to show the shop’s commitment to living out the core values every day.
Some champions have a bit more energy than others. Some own it just a little bit more. But everyone gets to lead the JumpStart meetings in their own style. “Matt Ford [then a truck tech, now a power tech in Hillsboro], was the first person I saw get super excited about it,” says Billings. “He brought in his boom box and played a little entrance song to get everybody pumped up. He was really fired up about it.”
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