Truths
Culture is caring. Are you killing it with culture or are you killing employees with your culture? Watch this short video from our CEO, Bryan Setser, on communications structures for creating a great culture. How does your team start their day, check-in, and end their week with communications that matter for morale and culture building? When communications are clear, frequent, and transparent, team members feel informed and empowered.
Tools
Over the next few weeks, make a culture plan to start 2022 with a Culture Camp weekend or two-day retreat. Really make space to listen to your team on creating a culture that lasts. Here are some ideas we use in our work:

  • Pre-work: Call or write a personal note to everyone on your team inviting them to a different type of camp.

  • Share some short videos, memes, or short articles on what great culture looks like, the best places to work, etc.

  • Opening Activity: Provide pictures or images of great culture and have them attach labels to what they are seeing with sticky notes around the room. Show people laughing, eating lunch together, collaborating, etc.

  • Then have them do a gallery walk of green (yes, we have it), yellow (sometimes), or red (not yet).

  • Conduct a fishbowl exercise where the highest-paid person doesn't talk - they have to listen. Charge this person with repeating back what they heard. Then break out into groups to design culture prototypes.

  • Share the prototypes with others and hatch a plan to study the work and act on the results.

  • Gratitude Dinner: Appetizers can include glass ringing for prompts to share gratitudes - like a person you’re grateful for in the org. Entrees are a great team story from this past year. And desserts are what we want to go and be this year. Check out this edition of Truths, Tools, and Triumphs where we outline peak moments, including organizing dinners that promote cultural topics.
Triumphs
One of the killer cultures we've observed over the past two years at Setser Group has been our work with Brailsford and Dunlavey, a team truly committed to inclusion and community.

The Brailsford & Dunlavey team hails from diverse backgrounds, including architecture, finance, real estate development, civil engineering, construction management, economics, urban planning, higher education administration, and non-profit management. The mantra of "Better is Better" is an absolute testimony to how they work with clients and partners. They have interdisciplinary teams where people are treated with grace and mercy, and yet the best ideas still win to help organizations maximize their team, their investments, and the way they approach change and innovation in their cultures.

To learn more about one of the projects we're working on with them, read our partner James Vigil's blog, Tapping Technology's Potential.
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