Mission & Values
To promote the common good by being the most cost-effective provider of the most beneficial solar energy systems.
Solar Nation believes in the dignity, rights, values, and potential of people both inside and outside the Company. Solar Nation’s mission and the manner in which Solar Nation conducts its business
are a reflection of that belief.
The phrase, “the common good,” speaks directly to our responsibilities to others. Beginning with our leadership team and extending through our engineers, installers, sales force and office staff, our people work collectively toward accomplishing our mission.
We are citizens of our Company, our locality, our nation, and our world.
Solar Nation’s objective is to meet the burgeoning need and mandate for renewable energy by extending the breadth, reach, and effect of our expertise. We design, engineer, install, implement, deploy and maintain systems that provide our clients with sound financial investments to lower their operating costs, so they become a stronger businesses, employers, and citizens.
Prosperity is about more than money, and it is shared.
Solar Nation is committed to the prosperity of our Company, our employees, our shareholders. But prosperity is not just about money. Prosperity is a state of being—a state of wellness, of emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial health. At Solar Nation, we take pride in our work, our brand, our industry leadership, and our communities. We want Solar Nation to be the best place to work, and to be the best company to do solar work for you.
Taken together, our Mission, Values, and Principles are the foundation for Solar Nation's unique culture. Since our founding, our business has grown and evolved while these elements have endured to guide us today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.
Solar Nation expects its employees to make ethical and professional business decisions. Ethics and business integrity is the cornerstone of Solar Nation’s core values. We believe that our actions in conducting business speak louder than words. We strive to help our clients and the communities in which we work and live to see our commitment come to life through the decisions we make each day. We ask our employees to understand and honor our principles, follow our policies, abide by all laws and regulations of jurisdictions where we do business, and follow the Solar Nation Way.
The Solar Nation Way:
Integrity
- We always try to do the right thing.
- We are honest and straightforward with each other.
- We operate within the letter and spirit of the law.
- We uphold the values and principles of Solar Nation in every action and decision.
- We are data-based and intellectually honest in advocating proposals, including recognizing risks.
Leadership
- We are all leaders in our area of responsibility, with a deep commitment to delivering leadership results.
- We have a clear vision of where we are going.
- We focus our resources to achieve leadership objectives and strategies.
- We develop the capability to deliver our strategies and eliminate organizational barriers.
Ownership
- We accept personal accountability to meet our business needs, improve our systems and help others improve their effectiveness.
- We all act like owners, treating the Company’s assets as our own and behaving with the Company’s long-term success in mind.
Passion for Winning
- We are determined to be the best at doing what matters most.
- We have a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo.
- We have a compelling desire to improve and to win in the marketplace.
Trust
- We respect our Solar Nation colleagues, customers, and partners, and treat them as we want to be treated.
- We have confidence in each other’s capabilities and intentions.
- We believe that people work best when there is a foundation of trust.
We Show Respect for All Individuals
- We believe that all individuals can and want to contribute to their fullest potential.
- We value differences.
- We inspire and enable people to achieve high expectations, standards and challenging goals.
- We are honest with people about their performance.
The Interests of the Company and the Individual Are Inseparable
- We believe that doing what is right for the business with integrity will lead to mutual success for both the Company and the individual. Our quest for mutual success ties us together.
- We encourage stock ownership and ownership behavior.
We Are Strategically Focused in Our Work
- We operate against clearly articulated and aligned objectives and strategies.
- We only do work and only ask for work that adds value to the business.
- We simplify, standardize and streamline our current work whenever possible.
Innovation Is the Cornerstone of Our Success
- We place great value on superior innovations.
- We challenge convention and reinvent the way we do business to better win in the marketplace.
We Value Personal Mastery
- We believe it is the responsibility of all individuals to continually develop themselves and others.
- We encourage and expect outstanding technical mastery and executional excellence.
We Seek to Be the Best
- We strive to be the best in all areas of strategic importance to the Company.
- We benchmark our performance rigorously against the highest practiced and theoretical standards of excellence.
- We learn from our setbacks and successes.
- We do not accept failure.
We Are Externally Focused
- We develop superior understanding of consumers and their needs.
- We create and deliver products, packaging and concepts that build winning brand equities.
- We develop close, mutually productive relationships with our customers and our suppliers.
- We are good corporate citizens.
- We incorporate sustainability into our daily operations.
Mutual Interdependency Is a Way of Life
- We work together with confidence and trust across business units, functions, categories and geographies.
- We take pride in results from reapplying others’ ideas.
- We build superior relationships with all the parties who contribute to fulfilling our Corporate Purpose, including our customers and suppliers, and governments.