Adopting an Organizational Culture Code, Lynn Johnson, Spotlight:Girls
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This document discusses building a culture of compassion through the Spotlight: Girls program. It emphasizes putting girls at the center and teaching them skills like imagining others' perspectives, sharing their voices, and practicing performance. The goal is to ignite a compassion revolution by cultivating empathy. It also provides culture codes like saying yes, making mistakes, and feeling feelings to help shape the organizational culture. Testimonials praise Spotlight: Girls for maintaining integrity to their vision, having a strong empathy movement, hiring excellent staff, and living their mission.
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Adopting an Organizational Culture Code, Lynn Johnson, Spotlight:Girls
- 1. © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved. WHY HOW WHAT
- 2. Why is “why” important? © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 3. What? © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 4. The Dalai Lama © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved. “The most important problem our world faces is a lack of compassion.”
- 5. Spotlight: Girls Igniting a Compassion Revolution by putting girls center stage © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 6. How? • Image herself as anyone or anything • Share her voice, body, imagination • Practice, practice, practice • Be witnessed by a loving audience © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 7. Compassion Loving all of life – including myself – no matter what © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 8. © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 9. The Culture Code © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 10. Culture Code: Say Yes! © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 11. Culture Code: Give & Take © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 12. Culture Code: Make Mistakes © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 13. Culture Code: Feel My Feelings © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 14. Culture Code: Take Center Stage © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 15. © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved. WHY HOW WHAT
- 16. Why? © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 17. What? © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 18. How? • Hiring, training, management, coaching • Personal/Professional Development • Customer Service • New suppliers/partnerships , etc. © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
- 19. The Reviews Are In They have high standards for what they do…they have been able to maintain integrity of organization’s vision The Go Girls! empathy movement is strong and well articulated The quality of the staff that they hire is excellent; staff are very child-centered. They come to the work with humility and clarity of vision to know that they have to grow and morph as their clients grow. They live and breathe it—it is part of the founders’ lives. © 2016 Spotlight:Girls. All rights reserved.
Editor's Notes
- Simon Sinek urges us to “start with why.” That’s the key to great leadership and building an org that matters. Let’s be honest, sometimes it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes we have to back into it.
- Knowing your why – and, more important…being able to ARTICULATE it to everyone your org touches…is the key to creating a organizational culture that allows you to stand out in your field or industry. Or, in our words, it allows you to take center stage.
- Taught drama and made plays I was good at it – 20 years Knew it was important, especially with girls Had to search for a Why
- In 2008, I found my WHY at the Greater Good Science Center
- From here, I created a mission statement
- But HOW did my WHAT relate to my new WHY How was the experience of girls doing plays building the foundations of a more compassionate individuals and a more compassionate society? My advantage – I had to break down this super-sized concept into pieces that a child could chew on, enjoy, and digest
- First, I had to learn as much as I could about compassion. I learned from scientists that human beings are wired for care and connection. We are wired to be able to respond with love to suffering – both in others and in ourselves.
- I learned so much – so much complexity – that I had to go to my happy place and make sense of it all. Organize it in a way that I could teach it to kids as young as 6. 3 day retreat in the redwoods, we came up with our culture code. I had to break it down into bite size chunks that our girls could digest.
- And what emerged was the Go Girls! Culture Code – taking all that we learned, valued, and understood and put it in the language of the girls themselves
- So, we got to our WHY to create this this Culture Code but now, it is infused at every level of our business – the why, how and what.
- Again, it’s the manifestation of our mission statement – what would a Compassion Revolution actually look like? How will we know when we have succeeded in igniting one?
- It’s our education methodology – We teach each point through games and interactive lessons It’s also our community contract/behavior code – how we are working to actually be with each other during our programs
- And it’s how we do business in all of the other areas of our organization
- And it’s working…
- Don’t be afraid to back into you Why Find out how WHAT you do connects to a greater mission or purpose And then, break that super-sized why into child-sized bites – make sure its yummy! And don’t forget to invite everybody involved with your organization to the table