Triangle Associates named among West Michigan Best and Brightest

Triangle Associates is proud of its community involvement, and it’s one reason it’s been named one of West Michigan’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For. The Michigan Business & Professional Association compiles the list, and this is Triangle’s seventh year in a row to receive the recognition. It is “a good test of the culture of a company,” says Norm Brady, Triangle Associates Inc. vice president of human resources.”Community involvement is one of the areas in which we rated very high,” says Brady.Triangle Associates has 11 construction projects in progress across Southwest Michigan totaling $173 million.The company, which has a team of four full-time staff members devoted to the Southwest Michigan region, is involved in many community boards and organizations, including the Kalamazoo DDA, YWCA of Kalamazoo, US Green Building Council-Southwest Michigan Branch and the Kalamazoo Humane Society.At the company’s monthly organizational meetings, Brady says, one of the topics of discussion is always community involvement projects. To make the Best and Brightest list, Brady says, companies complete a 20-page nomination application. The application asks for such information as the size of the company, its revenues, the benefits it provides and other facts about the company’s business and community involvement practices.After making it through the first-round of scrutiny, an independent research firm contacts employees through an e-mail survey to verify the information provided. Nominees are evaluated in a number of categories including communications, community initiatives, compensation and benefits, diversity and multiculturalism, employee education and development, employee engagement and commitment, recognition and retention, recruitment and selection and work-life balance.The 2010 winners of West Michigan’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For will gather May 6 in Hudsonville to receive their awards and meet other recipients. They all will get involved to a further extent by learning about other winners ways of doing things.Writer: Kathy JenningsSource: Norm Brady, Triangle Associates Inc.