Business Resilience Roadmap: Practice culture
This section of the RIBA Business Resilience Roadmap offers practical insights from experts and forward thinking practices on nurturing resilient teams and fostering a culture of innovation.
How to foster a culture conducive to wellbeing
Take positive action to create a culture that values mental health
How internal transparency benefits the business
While involving the team takes time and effort, practices that adopt this approach believe the benefits are significant
"What’s the story our prospective clients tell themselves about us?"
Learn to design 'catalytic' questions that challenge the status quo and foster innovation in your practice
How a group of like-minded practices banded together for mutual support
The benefits of collaboration, knowledge sharing and pooling resources
10 reasons why your practice might consider employee ownership
Learn why a trust could be the right model for your practice
Aligning your work to your ethics and values
How pursuing B Corp certification can help practices track "what good looks like"
Five tips on giving constructive feedback to a team member
Learn skills such as how to make criticism positive and encouraging
HR essentials that all practices should have in place
Discover HR tips like how to ensure your team understands its duties, responsibilities and rights
Helping new parents return to work
Learn how to help new parents navigate the challenges of juggling workload and new responsibilities at home
Six standards for managing work-related stress
Normalise conversations around work-related stress and make them as routine as managing any other health and safety issue
Formulating a good hybrid working strategy
See how striking the right balance is crucial to maintain productivity, socialisation and learning development within architecture practices
Transitioning from employee to employer
Making the jump can be difficult, but understanding who you are first should be a priority
Boosting team productivity by altering leadership styles
Learn how managers can consider a hands-on, personal-output approach as one of many ways to increase productivity
What next?
The Business Resilience Roadmap contains two further sections, providing useful guidance and support on:
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