Resources

From publications to toolkits, GEO’s resources lift up experiences from your peers to help you turn knowledge into action.

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A Change Management & Deep Equity Primer: The What, Why, How & Nuance

This publication from Movement Tapestries offers insights and guidance for organizations navigating equity-embedded transformations, and the challenges that can come with embarking on such journeys.
  • January 16, 2023
  • Sheryl Petty, Ed.D.

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    Conversation Starter: Disrupting Culture

    Making culture more visible often begins the process of changing it. Once staff are made aware of underlying assumptions and behaviors, they are often able to better see inconsistencies or incongruities.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Facilitation Guide: Aligning Behaviors and Values

    This exercise is designed to surface the areas in which an organization’s culture is aligned with the espoused beliefs and values and the areas in which there may not be alignment.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Worksheet: Our Culture Story

    Get clarity around the specific behaviors, actions and outcomes you are currently seeing in your culture and want to be seeing in your desired future.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Worksheet: Culture Crush

    Break down the specific elements of the culture you aspire to have by looking at both positive examples as well as negative ones.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Worksheet: Culture Tightrope

    Your organization’s values are often balanced by an opposite value. One way to visualize your future culture is to name the values in tension and the desired balance.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Worksheet: Culture Mascot

    Create a clear picture of the culture that your organization aspires to have.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Worksheet: Anthropologists Game

    Get past what your organization says it values to uncover the hard-to-see, hidden values deeply ingrained in your current culture.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Culture Resource Guide: Acknowledgments

    This list of people helped to make GEO's Culture Resource Guide possible.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Using Key Moments to Shape Culture: The Helen Macpherson Smith Trust

    With the retirement of their long-time CEO and a milestone distribution to celebrate, Helen Macpherson Smith Trust took this natural opporutnity to review and transition the trust’s organizational culture, grantmaking strategy, structure and processes.
    • July 3, 2018
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    Creating Culture Together at the GHR Foundation

    As they contemplated a period of significant growth in the foundation’s assets (along with a potential expansion of staff and programs), the staff of GHR Foundation began to explore the kind of organizational culture they all wanted to create together.
    • July 3, 2018