--- title: 8 Tips to Help Develop Staff description: 8 Tips to Help Develop Staff --- - [Visit our Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/Fractured.Atlas) - [Check out our latest tweets](https://twitter.com/fracturedatlas) - [Join us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fractured-atlas/) - [Check out our Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/fractured.atlas/) - [Check out our Tumblr](https://fracturedatlas.tumblr.com/) - [Blog](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/) - [Donate](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate) - [Sign In](https://identity.fracturedatlas.org/login?origin=www&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fracturedatlas.org/site/home) [Fractured Atlas](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/) - [What We Do](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/what-we-do) - [Who We Are](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/who-we-are) - [Our Projects](https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/) - [Get In Touch](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/get-in-touch) [Become A Member](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/become-a-member) - [What We Do](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/what-we-do) - [Who We Are](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/who-we-are) - [Our Projects](https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/) - [Get In Touch](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/get-in-touch) [Become A Member](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/become-a-member) - [Blog](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/) - [Donate](https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate) - [Sign In](https://identity.fracturedatlas.org/login?origin=www&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fracturedatlas.org/site/home) ## Inciter Art ### a writing, co-learning, and resource sharing space for an arts ecosystem with big ideas and bigger questions. [«  View All Posts](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org) ![Blog Feature](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/298890/blog-files/blog--cards-feature.png) [Subscribe](http://eepurl.com/be_Uej) ![Tim Cynova](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/hubfs/Tim%20Cynova.png "Tim Cynova") Post by Tim Cynova By [Tim Cynova](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/tim-cynova) on April 3rd, 2017 Print/Save as PDF # 8 Tips to Help Develop Staff [How We Work](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/how-we-work) | [Tips and Tools](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/tips-and-tools) | [Professional Development](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/professional-development) | [People Operations](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/people-operations) | [Human Resources](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/human-resources) - Share: - - - - [mailto:?body=https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/8-tips-to-help-develop-staff-8ef6a8c38332](mailto:?body=https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/8-tips-to-help-develop-staff-8ef6a8c38332) ![1_CmgDddW_1Bhbd37MOt9Euw](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/hs-fs/hubfs/1_CmgDddW_1Bhbd37MOt9Euw.png?width=600&name=1_CmgDddW_1Bhbd37MOt9Euw.png) 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](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/innovative-workplace-with-no-money-down-bc47189c086f) and [investing in our people](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/investing-in-our-people-a21cf8ccac4), [the job crafting workbook](http://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/cpo-tools/job-crafting-exercise/) available from the University of Michigan, the [Inspiring and Motivating Teams](http://www.artstrategies.org/programs/inspiring-motivating-arts-culture-teams/) course by National Arts Strategies, or try [Radical Focus](https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Focus-Achieving-Important-Objectives-ebook/dp/B01BFKJA0Y) to learn more about OKRs. [More posts by Tim Cynova](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/tim-cynova) ### 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. 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