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By Tim Cynova on April 3rd, 2017

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8 Tips to Help Develop Staff

How We Work | Tips and Tools | Professional Development | People Operations | Human Resources

 

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The quality of our team, our organization’s very ability to deliver on its mission and remain agile and relevant, relies on the skills our staff bring to the office and use every day.

In this episode of How We Work:TV, we explore ways to develop our most valuable of organizational assets, our people.

We’ll cover eight strategies — all that don’t cost a dime! They include:

(1) Career Conversations
(2) Musical Chairs
(3) Bring in Outsiders
(4) Never Eat Lunch Alone
(5) Co-Learning
(6) SMART Task Forces
(7) Job Crafting
(8) Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)

Want more ideas, tips, and assistance? Check out my previous posts about creating innovative workplaces and investing in our people, the job crafting workbook available from the University of Michigan, the Inspiring and Motivating Teams course by National Arts Strategies, or try Radical Focus to learn more about OKRs.

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About Tim Cynova

Tim wears a multitude of hats, all in service of creating anti-racist workplaces where people can thrive. He currently is co-CEO of Fractured Atlas (an entirely virtual organization with staff spread across multiple states and countries) and a Principal of the consulting group Work. Shouldn't. Suck. He serves on the faculty of Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity and The New School teaching courses in People-Centric Organizational Design; he's a trained mediator, and a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). Earlier in his career, Tim was the Executive Director of The Parsons Dance Company and of High 5 Tickets to the Arts in New York City, had a memorable stint with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was a one-time classical trombonist, musicologist, and for five years in his youth he delivered newspapers for the Evansville, Indiana Courier-Press. Also, during a particularly slow summer, he bicycled 3,902 miles across the United States.