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Our Culture

It's the way that we are

The Johnsonville Way is what makes Johnsonville the very special (and successful) company it is. To help you understand, we wrote a brief story booklet about The Johnsonville Way and how it came to be, based on an interview with Johnsonville Owner Ralph C. Stayer. Find out whether The Johnsonville Way is a good fit for your ideals, your values … the way you’d like to work and make a difference in the world.

Our Culture

We Coach Because We Care

We Work to Delight Our Consumers

We Live Up to Our Promises

We Live The Johnsonville Way

We Work As a Team, We Win as a Team

We Help Our Customers Become Great

We Learn for Life

Our Mission

Together, we will create an environment that requires each of us to fully develop our god-given talents

We will achieve this by living

The Johnsonville Way

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It's the way that we are

The Johnsonville Way is what makes Johnsonville the very special (and successful) company it is. To help you understand, we wrote a brief story booklet about The Johnsonville Way and how it came to be, based on an interview with Johnsonville Owner Ralph C. Stayer. Find out whether The Johnsonville Way is a good fit for your ideals, your values … the way you’d like to work and make a difference in the world.

Our Culture

We Coach Because We Care

We Work to Delight Our Consumers

We Live Up to Our Promises

We Live The Johnsonville Way

We Work As a Team, We Win as a Team

We Help Our Customers Become Great

We Learn for Life

Our Mission

Together, we will create an environment that requires each of us to fully develop our god-given talents

We will achieve this by living

The Johnsonville Way

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Navigate through

our culture tree

to learn more

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We Coach Because We Care

A coach will not give you the answers, but will ask questions to HELP YOU DISCOVER the answers. A world-class coach has the ability to help someone become the best they can be. They do this by loving coaching above all the other things they do. They live this so well that people ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE that helping them SUCCEED is the coach's greatest joy.

The Johnsonville Way

We Work to Delight Our Consumers

When consumers choose us, we look for ways to prove to them that they made the right choice. This makes it more likely they’ll come back to choose us again and that other consumers will want to choose us as well.

The Johnsonville Way

We Live Up to Our Promises

At Johnsonville, each of us is PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE to our fellow Members. We set goals and develop plans we share with each other-these are a form of PROMISE WE MAKE to each other.

The Johnsonville Way

We Live The Johnsonville Way

Living The Johnsonville Way requires the absolute best from all of us and we won’t ever fully reach it, but that is The Johnsonville Way. It is a never-ending process of becoming the best that you can be.

The Johnsonville Way

We Work As a Team, We Win as a Team

We're in this TOGETHER. We help each other SUCCEED and we celebrate great performance, because ultimately that success belongs to all of us. Working as a team and winning as a team are essential to

The Johnsonville Way

We Help Our Customers Become Great

SERVING others is the way we become great. And it is how we serve customers that sets Johnsonville apart. We GO BEYOND what's expected. We help customers when they need our HELP, even in ways that may not seem to be in our own best interest in the short term, because we put our customers' needs first.

The Johnsonville Way

We Learn for Life

Business throws us CHALLENGES that are completely unexpected. Sometimes we must say "I accept this challenge" before we have any idea of how we are going to do it. But those are the kinds of "stretching" challenges that GIVE US the most OPPORTUNITY to grow-and you'll find plenty of them at Johnsonville.

The Johnsonville Way

Our Culture

We Coach Because We Care

We Work to Delight Our Consumers

We Live Up to Our Promises

We Live The Johnsonville Way

We Work As a Team, We Win as a Team

We Help Our Customers Become Great

We Learn for Life

Navigate through

our culture tree

to learn more

Our Supporting Values

Integrity

Doing what is ethical, honest, and "right," even when no one is watching.

Caring

Showing genuine concern, compassion and empathy for others through words and actions; at times going out of your way or your comfort zone to do so.

Ownership

Having such a strong personal commitment to customer success, to keeping your promises, and to taking responsibility for your actions, that you will do what is needed, easy or not.

Appreciation

An action that shows you have noticed or recognized the contribution of another person or team.

Candor

Communication that is frank, open, sincere and respectful; straight talk.

Humility

Being open to your shortcomings, not feeling or acting superior, and seeing others as your teachers—no matter what their role.

Respect

To show consideration for someone else as a person and to treat him or her as you would want to be treated, at all times.

Innovation

Developing new or improved products, services, processes and ideas that make us even more valuable to our customers.

Trust

Knowing that we have each other’s support and best interests at heart, in everything we say and do; being able to count on each other, always.

The Johnsonville Way

Members and leaders share what The Johnsonville Way means to them. Our culture is what sets us apart and makes Johnsonville a top workplace.

COMMUNITY & CAMARADERIE

The Johnsonville Way is about people – not just the people of our company, but also the people of our communities. Johnsonville Members are eager to help others, to unlock potential, to make this a better world...and to have fun doing it! Look at the great things our Johnsonville Members do!