Small Nonprofit: Fundraising Tips, Leadership Strategies, and Community-Centric Solutions from team to dream team with Ashlee Livingstone
The pandemic has changed the way that many teams work. More people are working from home, or in a hybrid arrangement. And as we rethink our culture, many of us wonder how we can cultivate a sense of connection and create a unique and meaningful team culture in this ever-changing world?
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how to build team culture with Ashlee Livingstone, CEO of Our Forté. She has built her career creating curated and memorable experiences for people, and works collaboratively with leaders in building stronger cultures to help teams thrive.
Myths that Ashlee wants us to walk away from:
- Building team culture costs a lot of money. Applying humans first approach in teams does not have to cost you money. It just has to cost you time to focus on engaging with your team and making them feel that they matter.
- Team culture is all about company events. You need to do the foundational work ahead of time to build that team and show ongoing connection with them so that when it's time to have a year end celebration or a halfway point celebration, people are actually excited to go.
Ashlee’s tips on developing teams with EDGE
- Engagement: Engagement is about connecting with your team and how are they connecting with each other? It is important for leaders to keep their current team members engaged and feeling connected to their colleagues.
- Development: Development looks like mentorship. It looks like understanding what your team member's goals and future is and what they want, not just what you see in them.
- Gratitude: To show gratitude you have to really know your team and you can ask them questions such as how do you like to be appreciated? What motivates you?
- Experience: Experience is about making your team feel empowered and heard. Helping them to enhance their experience at work.
Favourite Quotes from Today’s Episode
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“We can easily replace that person, people are replaceable, that mentality, even if you say it a couple of times, or you try and say it jokingly, that seeps into people. And so we guess the work that they're doing matters, but if they think they're replaceable or you can easily replace them, that's where they're not gonna feel connected to what they're doing.”
“At the end of the day, people want to be seen and they want to be heard and they want to know that they matter.”