LEAD Empowers, Inspires and Helps Guide Cintas' Asian Pacific Islander Employee-Partners
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 1, 2024 / Cintas supports and embraces its Asian Pacific Islander (API) employee-partners and communities in part through LEAD, a Partner Business Resources Group (PBRG) that is firmly rooted in creating a …
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 1, 2024 / Cintas supports and embraces its Asian Pacific Islander (API) employee-partners and communities in part through LEAD, a Partner Business Resources Group (PBRG) that is firmly rooted in creating a supportive environment for Asian Pacific Islander partners.
LEAD, which is an acronym for Leading & Empowering API Development, helps its members to thrive, fosters collaboration with universities and professional organizations to recruit more API employee-partners and provides resources and education on API holidays and traditions.
The group will reach its two-year anniversary as a PBRG this fall and has seen substantial growth during this time.
"The Asian Pacific Islander demographic is statistically the largest in the world and one of the fastest growing here at Cintas," said Jimmy Lien, Regional Business Director at Cintas and the President of LEAD. "LEAD originally started as two unofficial groups at two different regions within Cintas, but we believed it was important to bring the two together and unite as one official PBRG."
The goal of LEAD is to focus on three things: build a sense of community, create a way for employee-partners to advance their career development and advance connections with partners at Cintas and organizations in the communities.
To accomplish this, the PBRG consists of three segments: Connections, Career Development and Community.
The first segment, Connections, consists of a Membership & Communications Committee that focuses on recruiting, onboarding new members and providing communication updates. The committee uses a variety of communication channels including "LEAD Feed" on LinkedIn, a "LEAD Story" quarterly newsletter and a "LEAD Line" which provides text updates.
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Employee-partners who join the PBRG also receive a welcome packet from the leadership council formally introducing them along with some Asian candy and snacks.
The second segment of the PBRG, Career and Development, has a committee that is focused on helping advance employee-partners' careers through mentorships, workshops, training and guest speakers.
The mentorship program helps connect rising API employee-partners with veteran API leaders here at Cintas. LEAD puts on quarterly workshops where they send learning documents or sessions for virtual professional training to partners. The committee recently did one for LinkedIn, showing partners ways to recruit, post and share updates on their personal pages.