Wits - Common Sense - Street Smarts - Knowing when to use your intelligence

  • Putting Intelligence into action. It's not just about being smart, it’s about helping others by offering your knowledge and discernment to find solutions.

  • Smarts means that as an active member of this company you are looking for opportunities to learn new things and apply them to help others, complete projects, and offer new solutions.

Do

  • Find ways to close skills gaps.

  • Offer up your skillset to help others.

  • Learn things that bring value to the company.

Don’t

  • Be a Try-Hard.

  • Flood others with your ideas.

  • Use your knowledge to pad your ego.

Smarts Emoji

Use #Smarts in the #supernovas channel to recognize a peer or team.

 
 

You got it!

Did you just notice someone using their smarts? Use the “Smarts” emoji in Slack to call it out so that we can all see it.

Try again.

Using your Smarts is not about overwhelming each other with information, knowing when to use your Smarts can be difficult sometimes. Use the “Not-Smarts” emoji in Slack to gently remind someone to try again.

Stories

“Mary utilized the core value of “Smarts” when she discussed with me the benefits and values of the legal team implementing a daily stand-up. By having this conversation, she was able to: (1) provide insight that may allow legal ops to remove certain barriers to scaling up our staff in the future; (2) help legal ops refine our core products based on our stand up log; and (3) simultaneously allow us to provide visibility to others within Stellium.”
— Nathan Reiter
“Cliff utilized the core value of “Smarts” by utilizing his knowledge of setting up campaigns. He walked me through his procedure for new campaigns and helped me determine what things needed to be tested in order to ensure a successful campaign launch.”
— Ben Collins
“Ben utilized the core value of “Smarts” when helping us troubleshoot adjustments on integrations needed to have a successful launch of the Schulte-Roundup Campaign. Ben provided (1) knowledge needed to understand the request by the client; (2) knowledge needed to solution the request; and (3) completed this request in a timely manner to allow Attorney Group to present ourselves as knowledgeable in a professional manner.”
— Chris Collins

Assignment

Demonstrate that you understand Smarts and what it means to us.

Give an example of how a peer or team has demonstrated this value recently.

Here is how:

  1. Use the Smarts emoji on Slack. We can see who is using the emoji and how often.

  2. Use #Smarts in the #supernovas Channel.

  3. Share your story via this form and see it added to this page as an example for others.