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Lorain County Community College  
Elyria
Industry: Education
NEO Employees: 415
NC99 Years Won: 4
Mission Statement
Lorain County Community College, an innovative leader in education, economic, community and cultural development, serves as a regional catalyst for change in a global environment through accessible and affordable academic and career oriented education, lifelong learning, and community partnerships.
Organization Description
Lorain County Community College serves the diverse needs of Lorain County's 280,000 residents by providing a wide range of affordable, high quality, and accessible educational offerings. The college offers pre-baccalaureate/transfer degree programs, career/technical programs, developmental education, workforce training, continuing education, and community service programming.
Organization Culture
Convocation is the annual beginning of the new academic year event for all faculty and staff. It includes breakfast, an opening presentation by the President, a video introduction of new faculty and staff, an employee engagement activity, lunch, breakout sessions, and our every other year peer-generated awards ceremony. The You Make A Difference Award Program encourages faculty and staff to nominate co-workers who they feel have made a difference at LCCC.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
The President and top management demonstrate their commitment to attracting and retaining top performers by their continuous networking within the community and with other institutions of higher education. The President and his Administrative Leadership Team (ALT) also actively participated in the development of the college’s mission, vision, and values which promotes the development of individuals and diversity. They are dedicated to the recruiting, retaining, and developing of future and existing employees by providing a meaningful and challenging work environment, offering career development opportunities, recognizing employee accomplishments, and ensuring an atmosphere that supports work/life balance.
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Malone Advertising
Special Category Winner
Akron
Industry: Advertising / Marketing
NEO Employees: 215
NC99 Years Won: 7
Mission Statement
Malone’s mission is to create partnerships between brands and the people who sell them in order to connect with the people who buy them.
Organization Description
Malone is a full service, retail-marketing agency focused on reaching consumers as they become shoppers; when and where they make purchase decisions. Our teams use retailer, trade area, and shopper insights to deliver solutions that drive brand purchase for CPG manufacturers, durable goods manufacturers with dealer/franchisee networks, and retailers.
Organization Culture
We are a team of people who bring Midwestern substance and integrity to our work. Our environment is collaborative and every person and every idea count. This comes through in day-to-day business activities like our brainstorming process where we employ cross-functional, multi-level teams that take advantage of generational and cultural differences to deliver the most relevant, engaging solutions.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Recruiting meetings are held at least monthly to discuss open positions and brainstorm for people who might be ready to take on a larger role. Malone aggressively promotes from within, but when we need to go outside, managers are very hands-on. We offer referral bonuses to team members who recommend new employees. Malone’s President and General Manager go out of their way to recognize key performers by recognizing efforts at monthly agency meetings. We also have a generous bonus policy that enables managers to recognize key performers.
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Medical Mutual of Ohio  
Cleveland
Industry: Financial / Insurance / Real Estate
NEO Employees: 1888
NC99 Years Won: 5
Mission Statement
Medical Mutual provides cost-effective access to quality healthcare for our members by delivering leading-edge health insurance products and related services in a manner that enables us to build a strong financial foundation, control of our destiny and remain a strong employer in Ohio.
Organization Description
Founded in 1934, Medical Mutual of Ohio is the oldest and largest health insurance company in Ohio. Medical Mutual insures over 1.6 million customers through high quality, affordable group, personal health insurance plans, and third-party administrative services to self-insured groups and customers
Organization Culture
Medical Mutual is concerned with the health of our customers as well as our employees. For our employees, we offer a state of the art fitness center with a variety of equipment and exercise classes. The company also offers a variety of wellness programs, such as Relieve stress, Weight Watchers on-site, and Meditation classes.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Medical Mutual’s CEO and executive team are very passionate and committed to attracting and retaining top performers. Our dedicated Human Resource team has the knowledge and skills to hire high quality employees and is continually searching for ways to be a great competitor in the marketplace. The company is aware of the importance of the family unit, so it is an initiative to have a good work/ home balance. “Vital Signs” is a survey that is performed every two years, as to get employee feedback.
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Medical Service Company  
Cleveland
Industry: Health / Human Services
NEO Employees: 102
NC99 Years Won: 2
Mission Statement
To continue our excellent tradition of providing superior service to our customers in a rapidly changing healthcare and business environment. This shall be accomplished by providing healthcare products, services, and information to diverse targeted markets in a manner which encompasses service, quality, integrity, and compassion.
Organization Description
Medical Service Company offers a wide range of respiratory products, home medical equipment, and other specialized products including hospital beds, support surfaces, wheelchairs, bathroom safety products, aerosol medications, enteral nutrition systems, and prescription drugs. Our commitment to caring also extends to hospice patients to help relieve suffering and foster an environment of compassionate support for end of life care.
Organization Culture
With Team MSC, our employees provide community service and fun events to raise money for charities like United Way. The Jean S. Marx Dedication Award and the Merle W. Marx Vision Award are given to employees along with all expense paid weekend at The Ritz-Carlton, passport to shopping, and two tickets to their choice of one of four local attractions. The Jean S. Marx Educational Forum attracts hundreds of local healthcare professionals and is attended by most of our staff.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
The CEO has established a Vision and Dedication Award that is given annually and includes a monetary award with a plaque, in memory of the companies founders, Merle W. and Jean S. Marx. We established a MSC University with on-going training so employees can maintain their professional accreditations required for certification. Employees are recognized at the annual meeting in April when checks are handed out to each employee as their name is announced. We also have a commitment to a healthy environment, including a wellness program with incentives and support to stop smoking.
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Moreland Partners  
Independence
Industry: Consulting
NEO Employees: 15
NC99 Years Won: 1
Mission Statement
Working with organizations to unleash prosperity. To build Cleveland into a destination business region where companies prosper.
Organization Description
Moreland is a strategy and implementation consulting firm that excels at delivering solutions at the intersection of business strategy and technology. We help to shape and implement the most strategic and complex business initiatives in systems, change management, and business processes using experienced, Big 5 pedigreed people with broad industry knowledge. We crack complex problems with less disruption.
Organization Culture
The entire company meets each week to talk about progress on our strategic goals. Moreland employees are granted two 15-minute work product reviews per week with executives. This simple program builds a very deep collaborative camaraderie amongst employees that gets 2-3 sets of eyes on every client deliverable and internal work product. Our annual development plans are strictly not limited to business growth, but include personal, physical, and family goals and objectives.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Our recruiting processes, performance reviews, and development plans use our values as a touchstone for measuring improvement and to build upon our strong culture. Moreland Core Values in six simple statements:- Prepare to astound. - Create enduring value.- Be Bold. - Strive to your ideal self. - Create heroes. - Enjoy Work. Enjoy Life. Our executive team meets and usually interviews every consulting candidate at Moreland to ensure a two-way fit for a long-term relationship.
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MWH  
Cleveland
Industry: Engineering
NEO Employees: 67
NC99 Years Won: 7
Mission Statement
MWH's mission is to better the lives of those we touch by providing our employees intriguing challenges and the tools to solve them; by thrilling many client partners and pleasing all of them; and by improving our communities around the world through our work and voluntary contributions. MWH's clear, enduring vision is still: Building a Better World.
Organization Description
MWH is a global leader in providing knowledge-driven services. MWH provides premier solutions to municipalities, government agencies, multinational companies, industrial concerns and military organizations worldwide. MWH professionals have expertise in environmental engineering, power generation, facilities development services, construction, multi-sector management, asset management, financial services consulting, IT consulting, government relations, and applied science. MWH provides solutions for water, wastewater, energy, and environmental issues.
Organization Culture
MWH makes it a special point that fun activities are provided every month for the entire office. We provide monthly professional day meetings to discuss single engineering related topics. Staff receives certificates of participation for the professional day meeting to go towards their continuing professional licenses. We are a family of diverse people who are all treated with respect and dignity and who are encouraged to have fun together.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
MWH's CEO and top management are passionate about MWH's commitment to attracting and retaining top performers, as mentioned every month via webcasting from the corporate office. MWH is committed to training, inspiring, and motivating staff at all levels and this is demonstrated by their commitment to allowing every employee to receive as much training and development as they want and need.
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Newry Corp  
Westlake
Industry: Consulting
NEO Employees: 26
NC99 Years Won: 3
Mission Statement
Newry Corp is dedicated to helping our clients attain deep understanding of their markets, customers, technologies, and the driving forces relevant to them. We specialize in bottom-line-focused marketing and competitive strategy, particularly for technology-oriented companies.
Organization Description
Newry Corp is a marketing strategy firm. We provide insight and advice on major decisions- often investment related. Our target market is large, technology-oriented companies and our target buyer is a business unit head or CTO- our target client is often a senior staff member.
Organization Culture
Newry is defined by its utter focus on the individual. We have 6-10 social events per year focused on getting us to interact and bond in a non-work environment. We have many overlapping systems of career and developmental support, such as mentoring partnerships and career development assistance, ensuring that our consultants stay meaningfully engaged, productive, and happy. Our goal is to exceed every other strategy consulting firm in the quality of our work, the quality of our people, and the competence of our staff.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Our CEO's number one priority is to create an atmosphere supportive of and developmentally helpful to brilliant top performing consultants. We demonstrate that commitment by creating an atmosphere of family-friendly travel schedules, work-from-home options, remote offices in desirable locations for our younger staff, and a genuinely caring tight-knit culture. We purposefully only accept consulting work that will provide opportunities to our consultants to meaningfully advance their careers and gain exposure to new and interesting problems to solve.
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NovaCare Rehabilitation  
Beachwood
Industry: Health / Human Services
NEO Employees: 241
NC99 Years Won: 8
Mission Statement
To provide clinical and service excellence on a daily basis, while increasing employee engagement, achieving the expected financial results, and creating new opportunities for business growth.
Organization Description
NovaCare's clinical team provides preventative, rehabilitative, and performance-enhancing physical and occupational therapy service. Through an integrated local market of 42 NE Ohio locations, NovaCare effectively partners with physicians, employers, payers, case managers, and professional sports teams. Nationally, with over 500 locations, NovaCare provides physical therapy and athletic training services to more than 20 professional sports teams and 300 colleges, universities, and high schools throughout the nation.
Organization Culture
Annually we hold a holiday party in December for our staff and significant others, as well as a summer picnic for the staff and their families. We also have Jeans Days on Fridays where we are allowed to wear jeans if we donate a certain dollar amount to the specified charity at that time. We are the official sports rehabilitation provider for the Lake Erie Monsters and Cleveland Gladiators sports teams.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
NovaCare shows commitment to its top performers and makes sure they are recognized on a regular basis via newsletters, e-mails, or some form of prizes and/or personal letters and cards. NovaCare also motivates people to want to be or to continue to be top performers by allowing individuals and individual centers to choose how they make their centers excel and do well. Top Performers are also recognized annually for years of service, as well as promotions, birthdays, and anniversaries.
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OEConnection LLC  
Richfield
Industry: Technology
NEO Employees: 156
NC99 Years Won: 5
Mission Statement
To design, develop, and deliver outstanding technology solutions to automakers, dealers and their customers that improve efficiencies, increase customer satisfaction, and drive original equipment replacement parts sales.
Organization Description
OEConnection provides web-based technologies to the automotive industry. More than 15,000 dealerships/repairers/others in the industry use OEConnection’s ecommerce parts exchange products to better market and manage their original equipment parts inventories. OEConnection is a joint venture of Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Snap-on Business Solutions.
Organization Culture
OEConnection is proud of our culture that we believe is founded on hard work, creative play, and giving back. We enjoy giving back to our community through activities ranging from assembling care packages for US Troops overseas, to providing technical support to local non-profit organizations. A unique aspect of OEConnection’s culture is its creativity space, known as Mindspace, which includes an XBox 360, television, books, and whiteboard walls for brainstorming and sketching ideas. Associates use it not only for meetings, but also an opportunity to kick back and re-energize during the day.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Executive mentoring is incorporated into the company’s annual Associate Development Review and Succession Planning sessions. Members of top management are paired with managers to offer guidance and coaching in key leadership skills and competencies. OEConnection’s Women’s Forum brings women together from all levels of the organization to participate in lunch-time seminars, discussions, and after-work activities. Our President and CEO, Chuck Rotuno, routinely makes himself available as a speaker for classes in Entrepreneurial Studies at Baldwin-Wallace’s Innovation and Growth Center. Committed to championing local education in the region, the CEO supports a robust internship program that places leading students from local colleges in departments across OEConnection.
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Olympic Steel  
Bedford Heights
Industry: Manufacturing
NEO Employees: 194
NC99 Years Won: 6
Mission Statement
Achieve Profitable Growth by Safely Providing Quality Business Solutions to Users of Flat-Rolled Steel.
Organization Description
Olympic Steel is a leading U.S. steel service center with over 50 years of experience. Our primary function is the direct sale and distribution of large volumes of processed carbon, coated, and stainless flat-rolled sheet, coil, and plate steel products. We operate as an intermediary between steel processors and manufacturers that require processed steel for their operations. We provide services and functions that form an integral component of our customers’ supply chain management, reducing inventory levels and increasing efficiency, thereby lowering overall cost of production. Our processing services include both traditional service center processes and cutting-to-length, slitting, shearing, and higher valued-added processes, such as blanking tempering, plate burning, precision machining, robotic welding, blasting, and painting of parts. We operate as a single business segment with 12 strategically-located processing and distribution facilities.
Organization Culture
Olympic Steel offers a number of unique programs and events that contribute to a positive work experience for employees. Olympic Steel offers its new AP3X incentive program, designed to reward top performers by sharing the company's profits, as well as regular employee appreciation events, such as picnics and similar activities coordinated by all of our local divisions.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Olympic Steel’s executive management team has played a key role in developing and supporting the company’s college recruiting program. Top level managers play a vital part in identifying and implementing new benefits to employees, such as our AP3X (APEX) incentive program, targeted to reward individual contributions and encourage top performers to excel. The CEO and his fellow executives have contributed directly to the creation of the upcoming Olympic University program, a retention event welcoming new team members to a week of training and engagement seminars. Our leaders are known for providing direct, personal feedback and contributing their expertise whenever called upon to do so.
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Parma Community General Hospital  
parma
Industry: Hospital
NEO Employees: 1689
NC99 Years Won: 7
Mission Statement
To Provide Excellent, Personalized Health Care.
Organization Description
Parma Hospital is a 348 bed, acute care facility with 2300 employees, an independent medical staff of nearly 600 members, and 385 active volunteers. Serving the community for more than 46 years, Parma Community General Hospital is the only successful, non-tax supported independent community hospital in Cuyahoga County.
Organization Culture
Parma Hospital continues its tradition of being community-oriented and supportive of the various initiatives by the six surrounding cities. This is demonstrated through the Board of Trustees and leadership down to the thousands of employee volunteer hours given back to the communities. Parma Hospital has hundreds of long-term employees who are recognized annually for their service and contributions. The Hospital seeks many ways to have fun and celebrate the achievements of our employees.
How our CEO/Mgmt Team is passionate about the attraction & retention of top performers
Recently, the Hospital conducted a mid-year performance review of all employees, identifying and recognizing High-Middle-Low performers. Career plans were provided to everyone on how to attain the High Performance level. New high performance criteria were imbedded into the annual appraisal system. Top performers are recognized in many forums for successful completion of unique quality, innovation, or project initiatives.
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