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Pocket Change: When disruption gets personal
October’s notes on disruption from 18 Coffees co-founder Caleb Gardner exploring personal change and disruption.
Why You Actually Want (Some) Resistors on Your Change Team
Colleagues that are resistant to change might initially sound like a headache — in reality, these resistors can be some of your best assets.
Beyond decision fatigue: Getting started leading change
Leaders often know what needs to change, but don’t have the resources or experience to know how to get change off the ground. They are often scrappy and willing to put in the work—they just need a roadmap.
How to Use a RACI Grid to Your Advantage
A RACI grid, pronounced “racy” and also referred to as a RACI chart or matrix, can be a valuable project management tool when you’re in the early stages of your change initiative. Here’s how to use one.
Leading from Where You Stand: How to Adopt a Social Responsibility Mindset
We are in a new era of corporate social responsibility where employees not only expect more, but demand more from organizations. Here's how you as an individual team member can prompt your leaders to verbally support crucial issues and take action.
Pocket Change: What do we owe the future?
August’s notes on disruption from 18 Coffees co-founder Caleb Gardner exploring effective altruism and looking to the future — while also taking necessary action right now.
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.