Values
Mission & Functions
Cadence & Commitments
People
Standards Puns
100

This Core Value means the team manages ASSP's resources responsibly, ensuring transparency and long-term organizational health.

What is stewardship?

100

The overarching purpose of the Operations Division is to ensure the seamless functioning of the organization's core of these two elements.

What are infrastructure and services?

100

The percentage completion expected across divisional objectives to support the organization's KPIs.

What is 90%?

100

This staff person has a pet goat and also went to NIU.

Who is Martha Zuniga?

100

What you call the extremely comfortable shoes you must wear, even though you wish they were designer sneakers.

What are safety shoes?

200

The Core Value that involves embracing curiosity, feedback, and growth to continually refine work.

What is a Learning Mindset?

200

Oversee organizational governance processes, providing support for leader development and ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic vision and effective leadership practices.

What is Governance?

200

ASSP operates as a remote-first culture but prioritizes coming together in person for these three actions.

What are collaborate, connect, and create?

200

This softball coach staffer also does a draft with his wife for the Bachelor/Bachelorette TV Show. 

Who is Andy Kraft?

200

The term for the little wooden blocks used to keep large equipment steady while workers are underneath, kind of like industrial yoga blocks.

What are chocks?

300

Working together with others to achieve a shared goal.

What is collaboration?

300

The division creates organizational cohesion by connecting people, processes, and systems across facilities, information technology, and these four other functional areas.

What are accounting, human resources, sales, and customer service?

300

This is the frequency for the in-person team town hall meeting commitment.

What is one per quarter (or quarterly)?

300

This operations staff person wanted to be a weatherman when he was young.

Who is Bill Vacek?

300

The sign that tells you a liquid is flammable, but instead of danger, you just see a cozy, little bonfire.

What is fire risk?

400

This Core Value assures ASSP’s message and digital presence is inclusive, clear, consistent, and action oriented.

What is Accessibility & Amplification?

400

Manages the Foundation’s initiatives for providing free educational content, scholarships, and grants to expand access to career-building opportunities.

What is Foundation Oversight?

400

The required frequency for Division Leadership Meetings.

What is monthly?

400

This staffer worked at Lou Malnati's earlier in her career.   

Who is Dawn Conroy?

400

The required procedure when you find a frayed extension cord and must tell it, "You're done, cord-ially speaking.

What is tagout?

500

This Core Value is defined as seeking smarter, more effective ways to operate, leveraging technology and data.

What is innovation?

500

This oversees IACET accreditation, regulatory, and compliance requirements for all ASSP educational offerings and manages organization wide audit and reporting.

What is compliance and accreditation?

500

When a full team review occurs?

What is annually?

500

This staffer has two rescue dogs and went to Carthage College.

Who is Susan Clark?

500

This is the sound a manager makes when a worker doesn't wear their hearing protection and the equipment is too loud.

What is decibel?

600

This value is rooted in research, analytics, member/customer feedback, and market intelligence.

What is Data Driven Decision making?

600

Responsible for fostering a vibrant, engaged member community through the oversight of community programs and volunteer initiatives.

What is membership and communities?
600

We are committed to withholding these.

What are the CLEAR Values?

600

Before joining ASSP, this staffer created online programs for large-scale higher education institutions and various corporations. 

Who is Shikha Kapadia?

600

The colorful, high-visibility clothing that looks great when you are trying to dance the "Macarena" in a parking lot.

What is a safety vest?