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SLC Culture fall 2016

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Aleexsan Adal

This document summarizes a workshop for a student organization about defining and shaping organizational culture. The workshop is facilitated by Student Leadership Consultants and addresses defining culture, assessing the organization's current culture using scales like leadership and communication styles, and brainstorming ways to intentionally develop culture through approaches like role modeling behaviors and recognizing members. The goal is to help participants understand and influence their group's culture to better support its mission.

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Student Organization Culture Student Leadership Consultants for the DMC: 11/5/16 Aleexsan Adal, Neha Kulkarni, Hannah Folz, Megumi Chen
Who are the SLCs? • We are peer mentors who … –Office hours in SLI from 8:30 AM to 5 PM –Host workshops on demand –Plan the Homewood Leadership Weekend
Warm-Up! Silly Charades
Agenda • Central Questions • Define Culture • Human Ecology & Cultural scales • Apply it! Activity • Three ways of developing culture • Break out: brainstorm ways to affirm or shift
Expectations • This workshop is for you! • You are the experts in your own culture; SLC’s are just here to help you talk about it • Participate freely – hearing your thoughts can only help you
Central questions • How do we define the DMC's culture? • How can we, as members of the DMC, maintain or shift our culture through continuous actions?
Culture noun | cul·ture • Culture(n.): The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization (Merriam-Webster Online)
What do you see here?
How about here?
Expand a little…
Human Ecology
Human Ecology • Microsystem vs. Mesosystem • Where does culture exist on this diagram? • Culture is a result of many small individual interactions – ie. microsystems
Navigating the Cultural Minefield • What is a cultural scale? – Leading – Evaluating – Scheduling – Communicating • How can we measure these scales?
Activity: Where are we? • Leading: – hierarchical  group leadership (flat) • Evaluating: – direct  indirect • Scheduling: – structured  flexible • Communicating: – precise & simple  nuanced & layered • Mark where you think the DMC is now in terms of its culture. Then, mark where you think the organization should be.
Debrief: What did you learn? • How could our culture support this mission? How could our culture hinder this mission? – In terms of the scales? – “By promoting the use of emerging technologies in students’ scholarly and creative works, the Brown Foundation Digital Media Center prepares life-long learners to confidently master new technologies and to disseminate works that effectively communicate their ideas.”
Three Ways of Developing Culture
1) Live and Teach • Tell stories • Reiterate the lessons learned • Live it: Change the way you act, and then inspire others to do the same
2) Define and Measure • Put the vision in writing • Think about how your daily tasks reflect the vision • Measure it: – Informal: “Hey, how’s your work coming along?” – Formal: Performance surveys
3) Reward • Reward it: End meetings with compliments or appreciations. • Create structures to retain and motivate members.
Brainstorm: Affirm or shift the cultural scales • Remember: Leading, Evaluating, Scheduling, & Communicating • Live and Teach • Define and Measure • Reward • Come up with your own ways to shift the scales!
Thank You!
How can you reach us? • In person (M-F 8:30-5) – Student Leadership and Involvement • Mattin Center, Suite 131 • By phone (M-F 8:30-5) – 410-516-4873 • By email – leadership@jhu.edu • By Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/LeadershipJHU/
Student Leadership and Involvement leadership@jhu.edu Phone: 410-516-4873 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am – 5pm, Mattin 131 Facilitators: Aleexan Adal, Neha Kulkarni, Megumi Chen, and Hannah Folz Thank you!
References • Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary • College Students in the United States by Kristen A. Renn & Robert D. Reason (p127- 132) • https://www.pinterest.com/pin/143552306848 020266/ • https://hbr.org/2014/05/navigating-the- cultural-minefield • https://www.zingtrain.com/org-culture-steps

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SLC Culture fall 2016

  • 1. Student Organization Culture Student Leadership Consultants for the DMC: 11/5/16 Aleexsan Adal, Neha Kulkarni, Hannah Folz, Megumi Chen
  • 2. Who are the SLCs? • We are peer mentors who … –Office hours in SLI from 8:30 AM to 5 PM –Host workshops on demand –Plan the Homewood Leadership Weekend
  • 4. Agenda • Central Questions • Define Culture • Human Ecology & Cultural scales • Apply it! Activity • Three ways of developing culture • Break out: brainstorm ways to affirm or shift
  • 5. Expectations • This workshop is for you! • You are the experts in your own culture; SLC’s are just here to help you talk about it • Participate freely – hearing your thoughts can only help you
  • 6. Central questions • How do we define the DMC's culture? • How can we, as members of the DMC, maintain or shift our culture through continuous actions?
  • 7. Culture noun | cul·ture • Culture(n.): The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization (Merriam-Webster Online)
  • 8. What do you see here?
  • 12. Human Ecology • Microsystem vs. Mesosystem • Where does culture exist on this diagram? • Culture is a result of many small individual interactions – ie. microsystems
  • 13. Navigating the Cultural Minefield • What is a cultural scale? – Leading – Evaluating – Scheduling – Communicating • How can we measure these scales?
  • 14. Activity: Where are we? • Leading: – hierarchical  group leadership (flat) • Evaluating: – direct  indirect • Scheduling: – structured  flexible • Communicating: – precise & simple  nuanced & layered • Mark where you think the DMC is now in terms of its culture. Then, mark where you think the organization should be.
  • 15. Debrief: What did you learn? • How could our culture support this mission? How could our culture hinder this mission? – In terms of the scales? – “By promoting the use of emerging technologies in students’ scholarly and creative works, the Brown Foundation Digital Media Center prepares life-long learners to confidently master new technologies and to disseminate works that effectively communicate their ideas.”
  • 16. Three Ways of Developing Culture
  • 17. 1) Live and Teach • Tell stories • Reiterate the lessons learned • Live it: Change the way you act, and then inspire others to do the same
  • 18. 2) Define and Measure • Put the vision in writing • Think about how your daily tasks reflect the vision • Measure it: – Informal: “Hey, how’s your work coming along?” – Formal: Performance surveys
  • 19. 3) Reward • Reward it: End meetings with compliments or appreciations. • Create structures to retain and motivate members.
  • 20. Brainstorm: Affirm or shift the cultural scales • Remember: Leading, Evaluating, Scheduling, & Communicating • Live and Teach • Define and Measure • Reward • Come up with your own ways to shift the scales!
  • 22. How can you reach us? • In person (M-F 8:30-5) – Student Leadership and Involvement • Mattin Center, Suite 131 • By phone (M-F 8:30-5) – 410-516-4873 • By email – leadership@jhu.edu • By Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/LeadershipJHU/
  • 23. Student Leadership and Involvement leadership@jhu.edu Phone: 410-516-4873 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am – 5pm, Mattin 131 Facilitators: Aleexan Adal, Neha Kulkarni, Megumi Chen, and Hannah Folz Thank you!
  • 24. References • Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary • College Students in the United States by Kristen A. Renn & Robert D. Reason (p127- 132) • https://www.pinterest.com/pin/143552306848 020266/ • https://hbr.org/2014/05/navigating-the- cultural-minefield • https://www.zingtrain.com/org-culture-steps