The Curious Cultivator

We invite you to take some time to read our blog ‘The Curious Cultivator’ that features articles with our latest research, stories of people at big companies making positive change (what we call our Cultivator Profiles), guides and toolkits, and much more. Let us know what you’d like to see more of as we look to publish the latest on how to continue to build a more empowering culture, drive change and communications, and build community at work.

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The 8 Key Behaviors that Successful Teams Prioritize

Discover the eight key teaming behaviors of high-performing empowered teams. Learn how your team can develop behaviors and habits that lead to improved performance and success based on our years of research and implementation. 

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Meet Our Model: Organizational Power Dynamics

Power is one of the most important cultural forces Cultivators contend with as they work to change their organizations. But, like all cultural forces, power is complex and often invisible. Luckily, social psychologists and researchers have thought about power dynamics in various contexts for a long time.

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The Five Dimensions of Empowerment at Work: An Introduction to the SPACE Model

We built this comprehensive definition and model of organizational empowerment as a way to synthesize the large quantity of research on this subject into a simplified list of dimensions that describe, at a high level, what it looks like to inhabit a more empowering organizational space where all employees can thrive.

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Why Intersectionality Matters at Work (Part 4/4)

In this series, we’ll walk you through some of the basics of intersectionality. In each issue we’ll leave you with questions to help you apply these concepts to your work; we’ll also share all of our sources so you can use this information as a gateway to further learning, questioning, and action. Ready? Let’s go! 

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Why Intersectionality Matters at Work (Part 3/4)

In this series, we’ll walk you through some of the basics of intersectionality. In each issue we’ll leave you with questions to help you apply these concepts to your work; we’ll also share all of our sources so you can use this information as a gateway to further learning, questioning, and action. Ready? Let’s go! 

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Why Intersectionality Matters at Work (Part 2/4)

In this series, we’ll walk you through some of the basics of intersectionality. In each issue we’ll leave you with questions to help you apply these concepts to your work; we’ll also share all of our sources so you can use this information as a gateway to further learning, questioning, and action. Ready? Let’s go! 

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Why Intersectionality Matters at Work (Part 1/4)

In this series, we’ll walk you through some of the basics of intersectionality. In each issue we’ll leave you with questions to help you apply these concepts to your work; we’ll also share all of our sources so you can use this information as a gateway to further learning, questioning, and action. Ready? Let’s go! 

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Meet Our Model: The Elements of Empowerment

Based on our own experiences and the research that informed this model, we know every organization can benefit from a culture that empowers its employees. Still, we've also seen that when leaders are interested in creating a more empowering work culture, they often only consider one or two of the elements, leaving other equally crucial needs unmet.

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How We Made This: Community Accelerator

Whenever we design a shiny new learning program, we like to give you folks a look behind the scenes. This time, I'll share a little about the work that went into our Community Accelerator, a learning program for community builders who want to do more with & for their workplace communities.

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How We Made This: The Empowered Cultivator Lab

Welcome to our learning design shop at Cultivate! We recently developed a new program called the Empowered Cultivator Lab. You may have heard about it.

For those of you curious about how we create this sort of thing, here's a behind-the-scenes look.

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Workplace Communities: The Research

I don’t know about you folks, but I LOVE research, and that’s a good thing because I had a chance to do a lot of it over the past several months as we designed our Community Accelerator program.

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Organizational Culture Exposed! (Why Is It So Hard to Explain?)

Imagine a space alien landed in front of you, ran out of their ship on a retro, retractable ramp, and demanded an explanation of a complex topic like "government". They need this information to make a plan for interacting with human governments now and in the future.

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