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Insights, stories, and thoughts that you can enjoy in under five minutes.
Why Quiet Quitting Sucks for Everyone
“Quiet quitting” may be the latest TikTok trend, but it’s reflective of the bigger reprioritization that workers of all ages have been making.
Getting Started Building Accessible Presentations
To help you get started building accessible presentations, we've curated a foundation of accessibility best practices to consider adopting.
The Measurable Impact of Positive Praise
Increasing company loyalty may be as simple as providing positive praise to employees.
Implementing Inclusive Language in the Workplace
Intentionally updating vocabulary to reflect your organization’s values can improve corporate culture, hiring practices, and comfort level amongst employees. Here’s what you can do to implement inclusive language in your organization.
Why I wrote “No Point B” (and how I did it)
There is no end point to disruption. We need to reframe transformation as a constant process and start building our adaptive capabilities now for whatever comes next — and that’s what I’ve tried to capture in “No Point B.”
A Team Charter Can Be a Key to Team Success
This team charter tool helps center your organization’s values, goals, expectations, and obstacles as you envision your desired end state and what it will take to get there.
Creating a successful hybrid work environment
Considerations and best practices for your team’s approach to hybrid work.
Pocket Change: Collective effervescence & stubborn optimism
June’s notes on disruption from 18 Coffees co-founder Caleb Gardner exploring stubborn optimism as changemakers drive corporate social good.
Five Insights from Social Innovation Summit 2022
From ESG to hybrid work and beyond, here are 18 Coffees’ top takeaways from Social Innovation Summit 2022.
Four Sessions We’re Most Excited for at Social Innovation Summit 2022
The 18 Coffees team is back on the road and heading to Social Innovation Summit’s flagship conference. Co-founder Caleb Gardner will host his own interactive workshop session on leading through change — here are some of the other sessions that we're most excited for.
The Six Ps: How to respond to a social crisis with care and commitment
Our personal lives and our work lives have always intersected. Now, the walls are coming down, and leaders need to be prepared to react to social pressure, navigate the new realities of a socially-aware employee base, and embrace the new responsibility of pastoral care over their workforce.
Pocket Change: “Business as usual”
May’s notes on disruption from 18 Coffees co-founder Caleb Gardner, exploring effects of societal impacts on employees’ well-being.
Four Things to Consider When Designing Your Change Team
At 18 Coffees, we refer to the leaders of change initiatives as Change Champions, members of an effective change team that exist at every layer of the organization. Here’s what to consider when designing a change team of your own.
The Merging Social and Professional Identities of Gen Z
18 Coffees intern and resident member of Gen Z Morgan Anderson explores the intertwining personal and professional identities of the next generation.
Pocket Change: Employee activism and disinformation
April’s notes on disruption from 18 Coffees co-founder Caleb Gardner, taking a deeper dive on employee activism and disinformation.
How Remote Work Created an Equity Imperative
Conversations about equity are rising to the forefront just as work is disaggregating from physical locations. Cultural norms reinforced through everyday interactions are giving way as the individualization of work spotlights longstanding inequities at work.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Have a Long Way To Go
It’s easy to praise the concepts of diversity, inclusion, and creating a more equitable society. But trying to diversify one of the most important workplaces in the United States—the Supreme Court—showed how much progress we still have to make.
Pocket Change: The new global oligarchy
March’s notes on disruption from 18 Coffees co-founder Caleb Gardner.