01/13/2024
✨Ways of Being✨
At Stoked, we strongly believe innovation is a by-product of a great culture. For over 10 years, we have been primarily contacted to help teams be more innovative: develop a new product, solution, or engagement model. We’ve learned that a team’s creative output is only as strong as the norms that create it. All too often, strategy accelerates the growth of a team with ill-defined values, or values are laminated on a door somewhere without serving as action-oriented guideposts for what excellent work looks and feels like.
We work with teams to co-create values that feel human, energizing, and actionable (so we call them Ways of Being). By developing a system for teams to take shared ownership of these Ways of Being through consistent practices, every individual is inspired to do their best work and hold one another to a standard the whole system feels proud of. This is the winning recipe for growing a powerful team!
When it comes to supporting team alignment, a few consistent learnings directly fed the development of this approach:
👉 Design unlocks creativity. We leverage human-centered design to develop ‘Ways of Being’ through empathetic research and coach your team on how to experiment their way to successful cultural practices.
👉 Team members have ideas they’d love to try. Often, they haven’t been asked to share and implement them, don’t feel safe in coming forward, or don’t know how. This approach gets right to the action of building and testing ideas to build confidence.
👉 Our job is to facilitate, not take your team’s place. Your team will learn by doing, practicing new tools that can be leveraged for years to come.
👉 The power of play can’t be underestimated! We make serious work fun.
Stoked exists to support teams in feeling like their boldest, most creative selves at work. Reach out if you’d like to talk to a Stoked lead about how refining your ways of being can help your team to do the best work of their lives.
