Exploring Your Culture To Effectively Reach Your Mission
Join GEO and Philanthropy California to identify several next steps you can take to shift unproductive culture or tend to productive elements of your organization’s culture.
Event Details
Grantmaking that truly supports nonprofits and the communities they serve requires a deep understanding of organizational culture and its connection to nonprofit success. But how we initiate conversations about culture within our organizations, and how we make the connection to our external work, is not always clear.
Through individual reflection, peer coaching and small group discussion, this intimate, hands-on workshop will help you understand and begin to assess your current organizational culture and how it impacts your effectiveness and the success of your nonprofit partners.
Presented by GEO’s Kristen Scott Kennedy and Emily Wexler, this workshop will allow you the opportunity to dig into a particular challenge you’re currently facing, share candidly and openly with peers, and help one another identify pathways forward. Beyond assessing and understanding your organizational culture, you’ll also identify several next steps you can take to shift unproductive culture or tend to productive elements of organizational culture.
Workshop Objectives:
- Understand the culture framework and where your organization is currently.
- Explore your current and aspired organizational culture related to your organizational goal/challenge/opportunity.
- Identify next steps for making progress on a key organizational goal/challenge/opportunity.
Start: Thursday, November 9, 12:00 PM Pacific
End: Thursday, November 9, 4:00 PM Pacific
This six-hour, interactive workshop is designed for mid- to senior-level leaders who are at the early stages of thinking about their organizational culture and how they might shift it to better support organizational goals.
The workshop will be held at San Diego Foundation, 2508 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 200, San Diego, California, 92106.
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Agenda:
Welcome and Context
Our focus today and GEO’s theory of change
Organizational Culture Framework and Productive Attributes
A review of the culture framework and what GEO is learning about productive organizational cultures
Mapping Our Current Organizational Cultures
Individually reflect and map our organizational cultures and receive peer coaching on our organizational goal/challenge/opportunity
Planning What’s Next + Testing Ideas
Identify potential next steps for your organizational goal/challenge/opportunity and test ideas with colleagues
Evaluations, Final Thoughts and Closing
Questions?
Contact Kristen Scott Kennedy for more information.
