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Workplace Culture Assessment

Help Cultivating Community audit their working culture and give actionable recommendations to improve productivity, team morale, and employee retention.
Cultivating Community
Portland, ME, USA
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Portland, ME, USA

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Posted July 21st

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Workplace Culture Assessment

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What we need
  • A detailed, unbiased audit of the Organization's culture including current strengths and areas of improvement
  • Actionable steps to promote team happiness and productivity
Additional details

Cultivating Community seeks a third-party evaluator to interview staff and board members as part of an assessment of the organization's recent transition to a three person co-leadership model. This evaluation is meant to confirm or refute the initially identified pros and cons of this structure and seek ways to improve the structure and address any underlying weaknesses. The principle research method is expected to be 1-1 or small group interviews.

What we have in place
  • An active Next Steps Committee with engaged staff and board members, plus a professional facilitator
    Adopted organizational values document
    Identified skills and characteristics of leadership
    Draft of interview questions
How this will help
This project will save us $10,298 , allowing us to support our new immigrant farmer training programs, community gardens, and food justice initiatives.

Cultivating Community is at an important crossroads. The organization's founding director resigned unexpectedly in 2019, without a succession plan. Since 1/20, a three-person Interim Directors Team has performed well but the board must decide whether to adopt this innovative co-leadership structure or revert to a more conventional ED model. The external evaluation will provide important feedback for how to adjust the model and ensure its sustainability.

Project plan

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Prep: Information Gathering
  • Volunteer Manager provides the Professional with an overview of the Organization's current workplace culture, perceived strengths and areas for improvement
  • Volunteer Manager shares with Professional any Organizational policies, programs, and/or procedures that influence workplace culture
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with past reviews or feedback that the Organization has gathered from employees (if any)
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Milestone 1: Research & Evaluation
  • Professional connects with Volunteer Manager for a brainstorming/overview session and agree on best method to conduct assessment
  • Professional conducts assessment
  • Professional garners feedback from other team members (if necessary)
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Milestone 2: Recommendations
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager connect to discuss findings
  • Professional provides final thoughts on the Organization's culture, as well as areas and actionable items to continue to focus on
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Ted S.

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Our mission

Growing sustainable communities by: expanding access to healthy, local food; empowering children, youth, and adults to play diverse roles in restoring their local, sustainable food systems; modeling, teaching, and advocating for ecological food production.

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Unfortunately, Christine became incapacitated from illness near the end of our project and did not deliver the information and assessment we expected. We hope she recovers quickly.
Ted S.
Ted S.

Treasurer

Workplace Culture Assessment Project

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