Blog Post 2

 Over the first few days of my senior project, I got to go into Parker and interview some of the head members of the fluid connectors division. Throughout my first three interviews, I got to learn all about what makes Parker so successful and how they manage day-to-day tasks. During my first interview with Mr. Kevin Ruffer (the head HR person for the fluid connectors group), he told me all about some of the issues he had to overcome because of Covid and how he handled it. Also, during this interview, I got my first insight into the WIN strategy, which is the primary business strategy used by Parker. In the WIN strategy, there are four pillars (Engaged People, Customer Experience, Profitable Growth, and Finacial Peformance), and each pillar is the main strategy for each kind of worker. Throughout my next two interviews, I learned more about the WIN strategy and how each of the 4 pillars of the strategy checks each other and keeps one another in balance. While interviewing the VP of Innovation and Technology, Mr. Barber, I learned about ESG which stands for Environmental, Social, Governance, and its essentially about how the company can grow and prosper while being environmentally friendly, running the company right from a social perspective, and making sure everyone is governed well. This is the first goal/ strategy of the first pillar (Engaged People). To dive a little deeper into the first pillar I also learned why it's so important. By making sure everyone is engaged and wants to be working, which can be accomplished by doing many things like making sure people feel they can grow/ get promotions etc, the company is going to run better. Other things like continuous improvement and Ownership- Entreprenurialship are strategies in the Engaged People Pillar.