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4 Ways To Embrace The Community Through Work

Embracing the perks, benefits and advantages of your surrounding community, including the entirety of the Carolinas, is a great way to strengthen community involvement and bolster relationships amongst your workforce. Not only that, but mingling within the community, especially as a locally based organization, is bound to open doors and present new opportunities for development that you never even considered before.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Maintaining a strong sense of corporate social responsibility is critical if you want to take full advantage of what your community has to offer. Moreover, localizing your corporate social responsibility is a great way to demonstrate dedication and commitment to the betterment of the Carolinas as a whole.

While there are many successful stories involving large corporations and their dedication to corporation social responsibility throughout the Carolinas, Lowe’s Home Improvement stores serves as a prominent and instantly recognizable role model. Originally founded in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, Lowe’s still conducts a large part of their customer service through centers located in Wilkesboro and Mooresville.

Currently in cooperation with their local American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity chapters, among others, Lowe’s donated nearly $2 million in construction materials during 2013 alone. Strengthening these efforts were the individual employees of Lowe’s stores located throughout the Carolinas, who completed over 1,000 construction-related projects within the region in 2013.

Embrace Community Volunteerism

No matter what area of the Carolinas your business resides in, there is likely to be several community-based volunteer programs for your employees to participate in. Some quick examples include volunteer opportunities with CarolinaEast Health System, North Carolina Zoo, Appalachian Trail Conservancy and more. Not only is this a great way for your organization to reinvest into the community, but it can also serve as a launching point for your employees to build strong professional relationships outside of the workplace.

Local Sports and Recreation

Promoting teamwork among your workforce is essential to ensuring productivity on a day-to-day basis, but teams can be built and strengthened outside of the workplace as well. Many employers throughout the Carolinas take advantage of community-based, co-ed sports and recreation programs as a way of connecting their employees further and ensuring the development of strong professional relationships.

A good example of a community-based recreational activity is the Annual Cooper River Bridge 10K Run & Walk event. The third largest 10K event in the United States, the 2.5-mile Cooper River Bridge Run stretches from Mt. Pleasant to Charleston’s Marion Square. The event typically takes place in late March.

Finding the Right Opportunity for Your Workforce

As you can see, there are plenty of opportunities for building strong teams, promoting social responsibility and developing business relationships outside of the workplace. The key to success exists in finding out what works for your specific team. If possible, take a poll of your employees before implementing any new programs. Paying close attention to their responses is a great way to gain insight into their thought process, and it’s a great way of uncovering common interests within your workforce.

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