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Architecting Your Startup's Cultural Foundations
Next Big Thing’s Culture Catalyst workshop series takes early-stage startup founders through the essential elements of purposefully designing and nurturing a competitive, healthy workplace culture from the ground up.
Sign Up Now: Culture Catalyst for Underrepresented Founders coming in August
Calling women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC founders of early-stage companies! Join Culture Catalyst, a 3-week program to build your dream company culture. Starting Aug 7, learn to create inclusive policies, develop a competitive culture blueprint, and implement your vision. Limited spots, sliding scale pricing. Don't let culture be an afterthought—make it your competitive advantage!
Embracing Radical transparency
At its core, radical transparency aligns with foundational values like authenticity, truth-seeking, and empowering people. By pulling back the curtains, founders create an environment of trust, vulnerability, and shared accountability for successes and failures.
Some of the documented benefits include: Increased trust & engagement when employees feel brought behind the scenes. Better aligned decision-making with information spread across levels. An uptick in ideas and solutions as processes are exposed.
Building a Feedback-Friendly Culture
Explore how building a thriving feedback culture is key to attracting top talent and driving organizational growth in our latest installment of "The Worthwhile Workplace" series. Discover how to normalize candid feedback across all levels of your company.
Cultivating Psychological Safety: The Foundation for a Worthwhile Workplace
Cultivating psychological safety is key for founders to build values-driven, innovative company cultures. Here’s what psychological safety is, why it's important, and how founders can nurture it.
The Conscious Founder: Championing Wellness in Growth
As a mindful startup founder navigating the transformative journey from scrappy beginnings to rapid scale, it’s paramount to consider how to stay true to the authentic values that ignited your company's founding.
The Conscious Founder: Autonomy that Scales
If you’re an early-stage founder looking to build a values-based culture centered around transparency, trust, wellbeing and balance, radical flexibility should be one of the cornerstones. This innovative approach is part of a growing movement reimagining the employee experience for the better.
The Conscious Founder: Looking Inward to Build Outward
In our ongoing series The Conscious Founder, we explore the foundational steps for embedding inclusivity and authenticity within your culture's DNA.