How we do business
For 15 years, we’ve served our clients, shareholders and communities with integrity and respect. We work diligently to uphold our core values in everything we do.
Our business principles:
Our firm is defined by exceptional client service, operational excellence, a commitment to integrity and a winning culture. These four tenets inform all aspects of our company culture and approach to service.
Exceptional client service
Our Job is to always do right for our customers and strive not only to meet their needs but to exceed their expectations. We do our best to make it easy for clients to do business with us.
We are field and client driven; we operate at the local level
- Use our size as a strength to execute well at the local level
- Spend time in local markets to understand everything about our customers (and what the competition might be doing for them)
- Provide the resources and authority needed for decision making in the field
- Innovate, test and learn — we know some ideas will fail, and that’s okay
Operational excellence
As important as strategy is, we have to execute to win. Execution involves every employee and every contact we have with customers. The devil is in the details. We must act quickly on problems; drive results, not just activities; and ensure detailed follow-up so that we meet our commitments.
1. We set the highest standards of performance
- Measure performance with a detailed, balanced scorecard
- Strive for excellence; don’t settle for mediocrity
- Recognize that teamwork also requires maximum individual effort
- Compare yourself with the best
- Stay hungry; competition is everywhere, so you cannot be lulled into a false sense of security — complacency kills
2. We strive for the best internal governance and controls
- Commit to enterprise wide world-class governance, controls and compliance
- Cultivate strong relationships with our regulators — be transparent, direct and respectful
- Build a safety-first culture
- Ensure that our controls infrastructure is as robust as our business
- Remember that good compliance is good business
3. We act and think like owners and partners
- Work for profitable, sustainable, long-term growth
- Streamline management and encourage an appropriate disregard for hierarchy
- Guard the firm’s resources; spend the firm’s money as if it were your own
- Invest wisely for the future — including on infrastructure and people
- Recognize that competitive intelligence is competitive advantage
- Foster a spirit of partnership
- Ensure compensation is fair and fully transparent to senior management based on a balanced scorecard; any special deals should be minimized and for good reason
- Respect and learn from your people/team
4. We strive to build and maintain the best, most efficient systems and operations
- Promote efficiencies and remember that leaner is better
- Leverage technology to make operations fast and simple
- Cut waste relentlessly — and eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy
- Be an expert and ensure we know our business best
5. We are discipline in everything we do
- Be rigorous and detailed, with continuous follow-up
- Maintain an intense work ethic to get the job done right
- Always strive for improvement and have the ability to drive change — make a list and get it done
- Act in a thoughtful, coordinated way — not in haste or in isolation
- Always fight complacency by analyzing our own actions and our own weaknesses; management should celebrate our successes, but also emphasize the negatives
- Enforce a good decision-making process and eliminate “waste of time” meetings; stand up war rooms to get the right people in the room and kill bureaucracy
- Do it consistently — like exercising or weeding the garden
- Conduct regular, well-organized and thorough business reviews of functions and controls
6. We execute with both skill and urgency
- Work with energy and focus; take responsibility and deliver on commitments
- Ensure that every role, every person and every detail count
- Get a little better every day — continually raise the bar
- Deliver results; investigate, analyze and improve when problems arise
- Know the details, commit to follow-ups, and meet deadlines for clients and colleagues
- Manage change with deliberate speed
A Commitment to integrity, fairness and responsibility
Ethical behavior does not just happen. It must be cultivated and affirmed throughout the organization. At SRA Legal & Risk Consulting Pvt Ltd., acting with integrity is paramount- and it applies to every aspect of our company.
1. We will not compromise our integrity
- Do the right thing even when it’s not the easy thing
- Have zero tolerance for unethical behavior
- Be accountable, straightforward and honest in all your dealings
- Abide by the spirit and the letter of the laws and regulations
2. We face facts
- Look at the facts in a cold-blooded way; admit and learn from mistakes
- Acknowledge the negatives
- Have only one truth for all audiences
- Keep one set of books
- Get the right people in the room (and the best answers will be found)
3. We have fortitude
- Have a fierce resolve in everything we do
- Demostrate determination, resiliency and tenacity
- Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses
- Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better — not reasons to quit
4. We foster an environment of respect, inclusiveness,humanity and humility
- Treat all people properly and with respect — from clerks to CEOs
- Excel by embracing an inclusive work environment and diverse teams
- Be open to different management and individual styles; there are many ways to be successful
- Respect people’s personal lives and show compassion when an employee is struggling
- Encourage all employees to take care of themselves — their mind, body, spirit and soul — and their friends and family
- Help each other — whether in serving clients or in navigating careers at the firm
- Have the humility to recognize that you don’t know everything — and foster an environment of openness, trust and sharing
- Hire and promote those people who deserve respect (would you let your kids report to them?)
- Have a deep acknowledgment of those who came before you — who helped pave the way and shape who we are
5. We help strengthen the communities in which we live and work
- Leverage our success in order to give back to the communities where we do business
- Be good, engaged citizens
- View ourselves as a local small business: Know our customers, create summer jobs and support local organizations
6. We execute with both skill and urgency
- Work with energy and focus; take responsibility and deliver on commitments
- Ensure that every role, every person and every detail count
- Get a little better every day — continually raise the bar
- Deliver results; investigate, analyze and improve when problems arise
- Know the details, commit to follow-ups, and meet deadlines for clients and colleagues
- Manage change with deliberate speed
A great team and winning culture
Eventually, it all comes down to people. Creating a winning team and self-sustaining culture takes hard work, and there is no substitute for it. Teams do not win because they have a new stadium or the most attractive uniforms. Some of the best teams do not even have the most talented individual athletes. Teams succeed because they are disciplined, work well together, execute consistently and have a
passion to win.
1. We hire, train and retail great, diverse employees
- Hire great people and train them well
- Everyone everyone to contribute to the best of his/her ability
- Treat everyone with respect — everyone counts
- Encourage life-long learning and a deep curiosity
- Acknowledge and reward high performers — that helps identify and develop leaders
- Recognize that we gain strength from a diverse workforce — embrace our differences
2. We build teamwork, loyalty and morale
- Provide our employees with the truth, opportunities, training, meaningful work and a commitment to build a healthy, vibrant company
- Recognize that teamwork can mean both getting along and having the courage to stand alone and do the right thing
- Consistently provide honest and direct feedback; encourage people to say what is on their minds
- Remove obstacles in order to facilitate the team’s success
- Put loyalty to the institution ahead of your or anyone else’s personal agenda; collaborate and act as if the company’s priorities are your own
- Serve and support each other
3. We maintain an open, entrepreneurial meritocracy for all
- Know your people well; put them in the right jobs and assess them honestly
- Make people decisions based on meritocracy
- Deal with people issues; take action with non-performers
4. We foster an environment of respect, inclusiveness,humanity and humility
- Recognize that information is power; share it as quickly as possible
- Set clear goals and priorities, reinforce them, ensure follow-up and communicate progress often
- Encourage constructive, open debate and consider different approaches
- Drive to reach decisions and go forward with one agenda
- Share your passion for learning and knowledge
- Reinforce important messages clearly
- Provide constant feedback — tell people when they are doing a good job and, more important, when they are not
5. We strive to be good
- Remember that leadership is an honor and a responsibility
- Understand that leadership is personal
- Act quickly on tough issues and have the courage to fight for what you believe in
- Share your passion to win
- Support people who are willing to speak up — encourage constructive challenge
- Be fair, be just, be willing to do the right thing — not the easy thing
- Challenge the status quo: Fight social, racial and economic inequities
- Get the incentives right (but that is not enough; people must feel they are valued and their contributions are important)
- Be a leader in your community
- Strive for continual improvement — drive change and innovation and never stop learning
- Help our people take care of themselves — their health and spirit
Get in Touch.
We’d love to hear from you! Whether you have questions about our services, want to discuss a potential partnership, or simply want to say hello, feel free to reach out to us using the contact information below.
