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PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE Program

Successful companies need to be agile, and successful managers know that the more employees are engaged, the faster they can respond and pivot to meet changing conditions. More and more companies are seeking to create a participatory work environment and an organizational culture where managers willingly share information, encourage employees to think and act like owners, empower employees to be more accountable, and involve employees in decision-making. Yet most managers are not sure how to do this. Meet the 2019 certificate instructors here.

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Redefining Management as a Function (Not a Person) w/ Mandela Grocery Cooperative 2021

When Renaissance Community Cooperative closed operations after just two years, finding skilled management was identified as one of the biggest obstacles to success.

In this What Works Webinar from the School for Democratic Management at DAWI, former Renaissance Board Chair Roodline Volcy will be joined by Mandela Grocery Cooperative General Manager Anj Talley and worker-owner Briana Sidney for an in-depth interview on the successes and challenges of building a shared management culture at their black-owned worker cooperative.

First Among Equals, a succession story w/ John Abrams & Deirdre Bohan 2020

A live interview featuring South Mountain Company, First Among Equals, shared the company’s success and challenges as a worker cooperative over a generation. Founder and CEO John Abrams and COO Deirdre Bohan, (who will succeed him in three years), you will hear how this company planned their succession over time, built trust, communicated frequently and ultimately distributed leadership from the founding CEO to a team of leaders. 

Building Trust In Your Organization and with Each Other 2019
Taught by ownership culture expert Linshuang Lu of Praxis Consulting Group, Building Trust: In Your Organization and With Each Other will explore the concept of trust, how it is developed, and how to strengthen trust within your organization.

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Open-Book Management Practicum  2019
This four-part interactive practicum led by Jen Briggs (formerly of New Belgium) goes deeper into the social system that lays the groundwork for open-book management to take hold in a business.

Opening the Books, Closing the Circle  2018
In this series, Jen Briggs (formerly of New Belgium) simplifies Open-Book Management in stages, helping participants build a financial score card, a business literacy checklist and a company wide training plan.

How Ready Are You for Open-Book Management?  2018
Jen Briggs (formerly of New Belgium) walks you through an assessment tool to help align you and your leadership team on what numbers to share with members.

It’s Like Magic: A Financial Report Template that Gets People Engaged  2018
Joe Marraffino of the Democracy at Work Institute demonstrates a visual tool you can use to input numbers, print out trends and better prepare workers to engage in strategic decision making.

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Assessing Your Threats Using These Easy Tools  2018
John McNamara (formerly of Union Cab) shares easy tools to prepare managers and board members for strategic decision-making.

Creating Strategy Collaboratively  2018
John McNamara (formerly of Union Cab) shares ways to productively engage members in mapping your company's strategic direction.

Who Gets to Decide What? Create Clarity with Decision Zones  2018
Jen Briggs (formerly of New Belgium) shares a best-practice mapping tool to clarify who makes what decision and why:  board, manager, owner or ‘shop floor’ worker. 

Membership Defined: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities  2018
Jen Briggs (formerly of New Belgium) lays out a model set of rights and responsibilities and a template for you to use in your workplace to help build and strengthen your ownership culture.

Who Needs a Work Plan?  2018
Anne Reynolds (formerly of University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives), together with a worker-owner from Cooperative Care, shares a model management work plan, built out of a challenging management transition.

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Orienting New Workers: Beyond the Basics, Toward Citizenship 2019 How do you set new workers up for success? Certainly you will share the basic requirements of the job, including regulatory matters. But beyond that, you also want to invite them into your workplace norms, company history, and how the business makes money. Set up new workers not just to do their job well, but lay the groundwork for their full citizenship in your company.

Hiring For Mindset Fit: Recruiting and Interviewing Aligned Candidates 2019 Feel stuck when writing a job posting? Learn how to create a reliable framework for interviewing, advertising, and crafting your job descriptions so that new workers can seamlessly opt-in to your organization and culture. This webinar will also help you prepare your interview team to determine who makes decisions and how.

Hire Carefully, Fire Quickly, Support Intensively: Lessons Learned the Hard Way  2018
Joseph Tuck (formerly of Alvarado Street Bakery) reflects on how they made “every mistake possible” to arrive at some of the very best practices in working with people.

Welcome On-board! On-boarding Tales From the Field  2018
Learn strategies to recruit and orient workers to become owners from Teresa Mansell, Founding Mother of ChildSpace.