{"id":7526,"date":"2006-10-10T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonda-develop.go-vip.net\/prosales\/article\/fully-empowered_o"},"modified":"2025-06-27T02:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:10:29","slug":"fully-empowered_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonda-develop.go-vip.net\/prosales\/benchmarks\/excellence-awards\/fully-empowered_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Empowered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Beyers Lumber &#038; Hardware in St. Louis and Niehaus Cos. of Vincennes, Ind., have more in common than just giving employees a day off on their birthday. Combining generous compensation packages with on-the-job empowerment, the recipients of the 2006 National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA) Excellence in Human Resources Award have succeeded in forging a team spirit within their companies that contributes as much to bottom-line success as it does to the ongoing retention of their top-performing staffs. Through open-door business cultures that seek to encourage the creation and support of employee efforts and ideas, these human resources benchmarkers have truly fostered a family culture within their business, a one-for-all and all-for-one corporate ethos that keeps their employees coming back to work and their customers coming back for more.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <b>Beyers Lumber and Hardware<\/b> fully subscribes to a work hard, play harder business model and embraces a sense of humor as one of the keys to pro dealer success. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosalesmagazine.com\/industry-news.asp?sectionID=421&#038;articleID=376945\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A newsletter with national distribution and a hardcover company history penned by the owner himself just begin to tell the successful HR story at <b>Neihaus Cos.<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosalesmagazine.com\/industry-news.asp?sectionID=421&#038;articleID=376946\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p><\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyers Lumber &#038; Hardware in St. Louis and Niehaus Cos. of Vincennes, Ind., have more in common than just giving employees a day off on their birthday. Combining generous compensation packages with on-the-job empowerment, the recipients of the 2006 National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA) Excellence in Human Resources Award have succeeded in 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