Share Our America Toolkit | Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact

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Does your organization feel divided, disconnected or disengaged?

Download The Share Our Organization Toolkit: Your 5-Step Guide to Using Dialogue as a Catalyst for Organizational Change

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This free Toolkit is for:
- Team Managers
- Formal and informal leaders
- Executive, Assistant and Board Directors
- Leaders of diverse committees or volunteer groups
- Human Resource Managers
- Chiefs of Staff
- Directors of People and Culture
- DEI Professionals
- Executive Directors and CEOs
- Group facilitators
In settings such as:
- Corporations
- Community and Nonprofit Organizations
- Philanthropic Organizations
- Cultural Institutions
- Schools
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Employee and Business Resource Groups
- Professional Development Workshops
- Staff Retreats
- Team Gatherings

We designed this Toolkit to help organizations foster a culture that embraces differences across perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences — grounded in authentic relationships and mutual understanding.

Whether you’re a mission-driven nonprofit, a multinational corporation, institution of higher education, or faith organization, our research-backed dialogue model will help you open doors to more constructive communication,collaboration and problem solving in the direction your organization needs.

This Toolkit will enable you to:

Organize and facilitate meetings that use a research-backed dialogue methodology to build trust
Create more constructive patterns of communication within your organization
Navigate challenging (and courageous!) conversations about a important issue, policy, or strategy
Support employee engagement and organizational development efforts
Advance existing inclusion and belonging priorities

and much more!

Why It Works

This Toolkit helps leaders implement the Share Our Organization model, which is rooted in Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD), a research-based framework developed by Essential Partners. In an organization, RSD can mend relationships and establish healthier communication norms. When implemented thoughtfully, these dialogue sessions elevate the voices of your members, improve trust and understanding within and between teams, and open a pathway to change.

Whether your goal is to use this model to respond to a tense moment for your team members, embark on a major project, or gather ideas towards building a new strategy, you’ll be able to move forward after the sessions to integrate the diverse, emergent perspectives into your organization.

Who made this Toolkit?

Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their most pressing challenges. Founded in 1989, EP equips people to build a culture of connection, a deeper sense of belonging, as well as mutual understanding and trust across differences of values, beliefs, and identities.
92NY’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact builds and scales initiatives that enable leaders to activate ripples of impact around the world, including GivingTuesday, The Social Good Summit, Women inPower, and Ben Franklin Circles. Share Our America is an initiative from the Belfer Center that helps communities embrace their differences as a source of strength and unlock their potential to create change.

Have questions about the Toolkit or want to learn more? We’d love to talk.

Toolkit for Organizations to Strengthen Culture and Connection

Why It Works

Who made this Toolkit?

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