“Proud to have been a finalist from The Goering Center’s best Family Business with 100+ employees for our legacy, leadership, and strong culture and am honored to be apart of it alongside Rex Taylor, Drew Taylor, and Keith Swensen and the rest of the Taylor Logistics & Taylor Distributing Family. Thank you Noelle Taylor for all your work with this and John Goering & Carol Butler for their work and dedication to the Cincinnati community” – Grant Taylor
Although Taylor’s taglines have changed throughout our nearly 170 years in business, they’ve always been geared around our founding year. From “Since 1850″ to the longer ” Your Trusted Partner Since 1850″ we’ve never shied away from telling people our age. However, through recent research amongst our customers as well as industry experts, it came to our attention to rethink our tagline and our overall branding. No, we’re not getting rid of “Since 1850″, but it’s no longer our primary talking point. It’s moved to the secondary so we could talk about our processes and people first. We are thus repositioning our brand to the new era of ” The Nation’s Most Innovative Family Owned Logistics Company.”
Why the change? We asked our customers why they like working with Taylor. What sets us apart from the thousands of other logistics companies out there? Two key points stood out to us the most the first being the fact that we are a family owned and operated business, and the second being our innovation. Taylor is a mid-sized family owned business currently in 6/7th generation ownership. We provide a level of customer service that large corporations cannot. But more importantly, we are progressive; we stay up to date on our software, processes, and technology. But it doesn’t just stop there; our company culture is progressive. We rely profoundly on education and our quality program. Our quality program is a massive part of how we stay on the cusp of innovation not only is it apart of our mission, but it is also in our values. At Taylor, we have a saying: 85% on improving processes and 15% on innovation. That’s what makes us the Nation’s Most Innovative Family Owned Logistics Company.
Employee education
is an essential key to the success of your organization- it’s a fundamental way
to set your business apart from the competition. Employees who feel their
company is invested in their careers are likely to stay longer and work harder.
On top of employee satisfaction training allows your employees to become more
versatile and bolsters the value of that employee. There countless benefits to
the importance of employee development, such as– a more competitive workforce,
increased employee retention, and higher employee engagement.
At Taylor Logistics, we make sure all staff members in any role are equipped with the tools they need to succeed. We have memberships to many professional logistics, warehousing, management, and quality organizations that allow our employees to benefit from their classes, webinars, and discussions. Organizations such as The Resource for Warehouse Logistics (IWLA) which offer various course offerings throughout the year. A number of our staff members have attended IWLA courses including their Essentials of Warehousing and Rate Class. All classes are closed with a course exam and upon a passing grade are complete with a certificate adding value to that employees’ career.
Along with
classes, our upper management will send several employees a year to various
conferences in our particular fields. It’s a part of the Taylor model not only
to learn and grow from these opportunities but to gain a new network from them.
Through these various organizations and conferences, we have expanded our
industry contact list, which allows for continuous brainstorming and
mentorship.
Training doesn’t
have to be as complicated as sending someone to a class for a certification or
to a conference but can be a tutorial on creating a PowerPoint Presentation or
on Adobe InDesign formatting. If there is an area an employee is looking to
improve in, we try and provide the tools necessary for their success. The
importance of training our employees – both new and experienced – cannot be
overemphasized in our organization.
Other classes, organizations, conferences, and certifications our staff attends:
