About this event
Positive work cultures are essential for long-term organisational health and resilience. Research shows that organisations with great cultures are more likely to:
- Retain staff and volunteers
- Have higher productivity and staff engagement
- Be more collaborative, creative and innovative
While staff and volunteers in organisations with poor working cultures:
- Are more likely to take sick days and leave roles
- Experience silo-working and challenges
- Have higher levels of burnout
Creating and maintaining positive cultures can feel difficult and overwhelming. Small, practical steps can lead to big change.
You might have ambitious targets - perhaps you need more visitors, more engagement, more funding. An ineffective workplace culture, with burned out staff, can hold you back from reaching your ambitions. When people are happy at work, with a healthy work environment- magic happens. Everyone works together, towards the same goal.
Participants in this online workshop will:
- Learn about the negative impacts of a poor working culture on individual and organisational health
- Learn about the business and ethical benefits of creating a positive working culture
- Develop knowledge about burnout in the museums sector and the negative impacts of this on the staff, volunteers, and organisations
- Explore different, practical ways of creating positive work cultures, including short, medium and longer-term actions
- Learn how to undertake a workplace culture audit
- Consider the working culture at your organisation
- Start planning actions you can take to improve your working culture and maintain a positive working culture
The event will be delivered via Zoom using a range of exercises and interactive features, including Chat and Breakout Rooms, and will include a short break.
If you have any concerns about accessibility or usability for these features, please contact enquiries@mdmidlands.org.uk
About the trainer
Dr. Laura Crossley is workplace culture specialist and arts consultant. She brings over 15 years’ experience in the arts and museums sector, during which time she has worked in and with diverse organisations, including volunteer-run, independent, Local Authority, and national museums. Her experience as an independent consultant and senior leader has given her a holistic understanding of the day-to-day challenges and pressures facing those working in the sector. She deeply believes working in creative and joyful ways are the key to genuine organisational change. In creative, joyful organisations, staff are happy, safe, collaborative, and motivated. Leaders are energised, trusting, relaxed, and resilient.
Laura is an expert in burnout in the cultural sector and how to create anti-burnout work cultures that enable people and organisations to thrive. She recently conducted Clore and Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research into burnout in the cultural sector, resulting in a report, podcast, and anti-burnout toolkit. She is a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow and has a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester.
www.weareculturebloom.com
Who should attend?
This training is particularly aimed at people working in leadership and line management roles. Members of staff without line management responsibilities, who are interested in working cultures, are very welcome to attend too.
Maximum two delegates per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Accessibility
This event will be auto captioned through Zoom. If you would benefit from any other form of access support, including live captioning, please answer ‘yes’ to the access requirements question on the booking form and email the MDM team as early as possible stating the support you require.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email the day before the event, please contact us.
https://mdmidlands.org.uk/training-accessibility-statement
Contact Us
If you need any further information or would like to speak to a member of the team, please contact us:
Enquiries@mdmidlands.org.uk
01952 435943
