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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tirza Gapp & Jennifer Howard-Grenville When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges.

Culture 119
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5 Signs Your Employees are Burned Out + What to Do About It

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

If employees feel disconnected or isolated from their peers, their productivity, willingness to collaborate, and job satisfaction may suffer. They miss deadlines and lose productivity. Helping the employee adjust their schedule to work when theyre most productive. They withdraw from their peers.

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5 Best Practices for Nonprofit Employee Onboarding

Ann Green

Lets walk through five best practices to boost morale, productivity, and retention through your employee onboarding process. Collaborative Learning: Turn onboarding from a solo journey into a social experience through discussion forums, leaderboards, and cohort-based learning sessions. Use a learning management system.

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What’s Your CQ? How To Lead Globally With Cultural Intelligence

Fundraising Leadership

In a stunning demonstration of their ability to collaborate and connect effectively across cultures, time and geography, these two co-authors met only once in person 11 years ago, after following each other’s successful global marketing careers from afar. Additionally, communication styles vary widely across cultures.

Culture 72
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Safe At Work: How To Lead During Election Season With Fairness and Civility

Fundraising Leadership

In this highly fractious and divisive political culture, as a leader, it is essential to create a workplace environment that is absent of negativity and hate that exists outside the organization surrounding the election. A leader is responsible also for the tone, productivity, culture, cohesion and harmony in the workplace.

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Your Nonprofit Team: Attracting, Retaining Talent

The NonProfit Times

Create a culture where your staff feels proud of their work. Prioritizing Workplace Culture and Inclusion A strong, supportive workplace culture isnt just a nice to have, its essential. Encourage team-building activities that foster understanding and collaboration.

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Ancient, Powerful, and Particularly Feminine: Righting Our Relationship with Mama Earth

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet in systems built to isolate and decimate our biodiversity for profit, examples of healthy community provisioning, collaboration, and innovative system building are becoming rare. The showcase was a collaborative project organized by the Ubuntu Climate Initiative in partnership with the media arts center Open Signal.

Culture 126