Pros
The most important success of this company, to me, is Change. There is something quite powerful about willingness to adapt with the times and adjust when things need to be adjusted. The leadership of French has honestly and truly made great effort to allow change for the better and I, for one, find myself enjoying this company more and more over the years. Leadership in every department is hungry for greatness on a very personal level and it is that intoxicating passion which drives the growth for our entire team. The last few years have provided us with enormous opportunity to look at how we can be better peers, leaders, and enhancers of the individual employee's skills and interests. The simple willingness to hear that feedback and make a plan of change is something that simply must be acknowledged. I'd also like to acknowledge money because other reviews in this seem to share a very outdated assessment of employee pay. A few months ago, our President stood on the office stage to acknowledge that we had room for improvement in this arena and gave the ENTIRE staff an annual raise of $5,000.00. This sort of large action is only a single example of the willingness to improve that the President and the entire company has exhibited. French employee pay has gone up from industry average to above average.
Cons
One thing we are all working on is communication. From the "top" down and from the "bottom" up, each of us is practicing a different manner of communication than we used to but it is an on-going challenge that we accept each day. The workload can be daunting during busy seasons but managers and directors and trying very hard to help us be well prepared for those known increases in business.