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Inclusive Sourcing: Effective Strategies and Innovative Approaches

Best Instant Coffees for the Hybrid Work Experience

AI's HR-Approved Karaoke Playlist for the New Normal

Disability Justice, Ableism, and the Workplace: Readings & Resources

White Men and the Journey Towards Anti-Racism

Race-based Caucusing in the Workplace: A Four-part course

The Ethical Re-Opening Summit

Preparing for November 4: A Company’s Duty of Care

From One White Male Leader to Another: Anti-Racism is a Core Leadership Competency

A Different Covid Haircut

Crafting Virtual Workplaces: Questions, Tool, and Approaches to Consider.

The Behavior Dashboard: An Interview with Its Designers

How to Transition to a Virtual Workplace Overnight

Assessing a Four-Person, Non-Hierarchical Leadership Team

Working from (Almost) Anywhere: Virtual Realities and a Fully-Distributed Workplace

Bring Your Whole(ish) Self to Work: Applying a Lovingkindness Lens

Summer Reading Challenge 2019

Opportunities to Live Our Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression Values: Checking In On Our Journey

4 Time & Task Tracking Approaches: How to Conduct an Activities Assessment

A Journey in Cultivating Resilience

CEO Not (Necessarily) Required: An Early Look into Fractured Atlas’s Shared Leadership Model

Think Week: Shared Leadership Models & Research

Scarcity and the Non-Profit People Paradox

Work Shouldn’t Suck: Why People Ops Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow

Nix the Education/Experience Proxy

15 Structured Learning Opportunities

In Thanks of Mentors

HR 101: Thought Leaders, Books, Websites, Videos, and Courses for the Aspiring or Accidental HR Professional

Who Changed the Game? The Unwritten Employment Contract

5 Ways You’re Flipping Fight or Flight Switches: The Magic of SCARF

Calibrating the Impact of Organizational Change: The 5k Theory

Company Culture That Changes the World: Building a Shared Purpose Culture

Would You Rather Be Right or Effective?

A Strategic Hiring Adventure

8 Tips to Help Develop Staff

The Battle of the Urgent versus the Important

Please Don’t Break Up That High Performing Team!

Human Psychology & the Office Renovation… or Any Change Initiative for That Matter

Do Kind, Helpful Things: Searching for Purpose in Our Work & Life

Core Behavioral Values, Whether You Want Them or Not

Innovative Workplace, With No Money Down!

Stellar Staff: The Lost Interviews. Attracting and Retaining Great People Who Move Organizations Forward

How to Hire: A Primer

Top 16 Books I Didn’t Read in 2016: But Very Much Look Forward to Cracking Open in 2017

Seeya, ‘16, You Were One Helluva Year

Announcing the 2016 Unsung Heroes of Arts Administration

The Impending Leadership Gap Crisis That Isn’t

The Unsung Heroes of Arts Administration

How We Work: The Fractured Atlas Culture Deck

…Like Drinking From a Fire Hose: Pre-Gaming Your Arrival to the Executive Director’s Chair

Investing in People: A Pathway for Confronting the Cultural Sector’s Challenges

Coloring is Cool, Again! Seven-year-old Selves Rejoice

10 Ways to Manage Your Time & Avoid Endless Distractions

Tim’s Top 20 Reads of 2015

What Would Zappos Do?

Anti-Racism Resources, Part 1

There is no neutral in the journey to becoming an anti-racist organization. We’re either working towards becoming an anti-racist workplace or we’re supporting the systems and structures that uphold racism and oppression. We suggest some first steps in this piece.

Anti-Racism Resources, Part 2

White Caucus resources. Many of these resources were gathered by Ti Wilhelm and others were picked up from a variety of other places. This is not meant to be a complete list, but rather a jumping-off point for white people to teach themselves about Race and Racism.

What Does It Mean When We Say Doing "The Work"?

When we talk about building a more anti-racist, anti-oppressive world, it’s often framed as doing “the work.” But what is "the work," anyways?

Negative Interactions Guide

Working to create and maintain an anti-racist, anti-oppressive workplace requires being proactive to address when personal interactions go against that commitment. The Fractured Atlas Program team developed the negative interactions guide for their interactions with customers.

Working Apart So We Can Work Together

This piece details the race-based caucus processes that Fractured Atlas has been hosting monthly since late 2016 as part of our organizational commitment to anti-racism and anti-oppression.

Pay Transparency is Anti-Racist

For workers looking to build more equitable and more anti-racist workplaces, openness about salary is a great place to start.