Culture

Costumes, Clues, and Culture: Inside Our Team-Building Retreat

In the era of remote and hybrid work, maintaining a strong, cohesive team dynamic can be challenging. With virtual meetings and dispersed teams, the opportunities for spontaneous connections and informal team-building moments are often limited….

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Feedback: Stage by Stage

Learning how to give and receive feedback effectively is imperative for leadership development.  Some people dread it, some people don’t get enough of it.  Some leaders are great at giving feedback and some avoid it…

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Giving up on y’all

I’ve recently begun working and volunteering in spaces that deeply value gender-inclusive practices and language. As part of these practices, we are encouraged to use phrases like “hey everyone” or “hey y’all” instead of “you…

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Ten Tips for Strengthening Your Virtual Culture

Now that we’re all working from home, we’re seeing a complete erosion of organizational culture.  The problem with culture is that it is a group phenomenon. Social distancing is, by definition, separating individuals from their…

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Building Culture on Distributed Teams

Culture is like a lint trap, if you don’t clean it out regularly, it will accumulate and eventually start a fire. Now is a great time to clean out the culture trap – keeping what…

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