We live by our motto: “We build successful relationships.”
The entire organization expands together, meaning we honor a commitment to growth where no one gets left behind.
How do we do this? As a team who finds the right spot, right now, for everyone.
Accountability to High Standards
Ultimately, our standards are our FIRST Values. They are simple, clear, time-tested, and predict continued flourishing.
Our commitment to the family is to hold ourselves accountable to those ideas. To live them out with the knowledge they apply to each of us. None of us is exempt or above them.
Like Orrin Anderson handing our now–President and CEO a snow shovel and a bag of salt on his first day at work, there’s no reason we can’t scrape the sidewalk together.
No one positions themselves above anyone else. While there is organizational hierarchy for efficiency and productivity, titles are not our measure of worth.
You will see this modeled by executives, board members, and shareholders alike.
We hold each other in high regard and strive to live up to our family’s shared standards.
The Fundamentals of High-Performance Teams
Teamwork begins with a core principle we call the assumption of positive intent.
At First National Bank, we always believe people are coming from a place that is rooted in our FIRST Values. This means we don’t expend emotional energy trying to suss out people’s intentions.
Every day, we live out our FIRST Values as a team:
