The Culture You Inherit Isn’t on the Org Chart
How long does it take before people stop bracing for something that isn’t coming anymore? Diana runs a department of about 35 people, inside a human services nonprofit of roughly 65 staff total. She’s about as different from the two leaders before her as...
Your Values Are on the Wall. Your Culture Is Somewhere Else.
Something happens in organizations that grow quickly, go through leadership changes, or carry accumulated stress for too long. Working together starts to feel hard. Teams become stressed, off-track, or unable to focus. And somewhere along the way, the nonprofit...
What Workplace Silence Really Costs Your Culture
Ginnie was the kind of person every project manager wanted in the room. Her story is a plain look at the cost of workplace silence and how it builds long before anyone notices. Ginnie ran testing for a software development team, which meant she saw more of the project...
Why This Nonprofit Culture Consultant Spent Years Avoiding the Word ‘Culture’
A father once threw a chair across my office. He was furious! All he wanted was to send his daughter to college, an opportunity that he never had when he was her age. Without more financial aid, her college education seemed to be slipping out of his grasp. Twenty...