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We work with some of the most talented staff on campus (in our humble opinion). Hearing their thoughts and concerns on how we can be better is critical to our success. Each year, our Assistant Dean conducts a listening tour, meeting with each manager and each team (without their manager) to understand how the organization can do better. This information is shared with staff and we use it to grow our strategies and team. In addition, our Assistant Dean meets with small groups of staff on a monthly basis, our “Mornings with Martha”, which keeps the feedback loop active. She asks questions about critical issues we are facing and seeks input from all staff across the organization.

We believe in transparency. Each week, our Assistant Dean shares an update on what was discussed during the strategy team meeting and the meeting with the dean. Each strategy team member shares information about what is happening in their functional areas through email “newsletters”. Our culture team sends a monthly update on fun and helpful information in our FYA: For Your Advancement newsletter.

We coined this phrase at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. It was important for us to be mindful of our culture and how to help staff be successful as we transitioned to a different type of work environment. Extreme kindness and extreme flexibility will continue to play a pivotal role in the way we grow our culture moving forward.  

We believe strongly in establishing healthy boundaries between work and life. We offer flexibility in work schedules to better achieve that balance. One of the core values of LSA that our dean believes in strongly is our well-being as a community. We even have an email policy to limit correspondence to Monday- Friday, 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. 

Taking care of ourselves is so important to bringing our best selves to work. Our MHealthy Motivators team collaborates to share resources and plan activities, such as trips to the local farmer’s market, virtual 5K runs, yoga classes, and more to address our personal well-being in a variety of fun and informative ways.

What is Positive Organizational Scholarship? POS focuses on such ideas as excellence, thriving, flourishing, abundance, resilience, and virtuousness. Research on these practices comes from the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business. Some examples of our POS practices that encourage these ideals are:

• Cross-team collaboration
• Fierce conversations
• Listening tours
• Mornings with Martha
• Culture Team
• Stand-ups
• Gratitude wall
• Social fun
  

We value professional development. Our professional development philosophy and practice outlines our expectations for all staff as well as optional training. Staff staying current in their field is important to us. And, being at a premier university, and especially one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country, there are always wonderful opportunities to take part in learning in our backyard.

We work hard so we like to play hard -- from the Game Club to Book Club to Celebrations (and more!). By far, the most active club we have is the Game Club. Join us in the breakroom every Friday over lunch (and other times too!) for an energetic (read: competitive) game of Ligretto, Euchre, or just work on a puzzle in peace. Our book club, Literata, meets every other month over lunch to discuss our latest read. We choose the book as a collective for the following meeting. And we celebrate -- weddings, babies, graduations, project successes, and, well, just about anything we can. Some celebrations are for all staff and others are held in teams.