Care: Delaware people should always be prepared to help and take care of other people. We do so by helping out and coaching less experienced colleagues, customers and business partners by offering our skills in a teaming-up exercise.

Team spirit: Cooperation, doing things together, creating win-win situations are more and more an essential basis for people and organizations to grow and foster. In order to reach common goals, Delaware people will cooperate with all members of the Delaware ecosystem: colleagues, clients and business partners. We do this through active knowledge development and sharing, being helpful to support other people in reaching their objectives and sharing credit for success as well as responsibility for failure.

Entrepreneurship: Management and employees have a different relation than in the past. They are more than ever each other's partners. This partnership makes an appeal for the creativity and entrepreneurship of all employees. Therefore every member of the Delaware family should question how he or she can make the company and its customers stronger. We make a difference for our company and our customers by showing constructive criticism, initiative...

Commitment: As Delaware is known for sticking to its commitment, also our people must demonstrate stamina and poise in reaching the objectives we have accepted: we follow-up on assignments until final accomplishment, we focus on objectives and deliverables and on the process to realize them.

Respect: Delaware people must demonstrate awareness and respect for individual, cultural and organizational differences within the firm and in clients' organizations: Respect leads to understanding; understanding leads to better communication; better communication leads to better results. We must also respect a proper work life balance: respect the commitment of others to external activities and interests; facilitate a good balance for both ourselves and others.