By: Tim Cynova // Published: April 3, 2017

The quality of our team, our organization’s very ability to deliver on its mission and remain agile and relevant, relies on the skills our staff bring to the office and use every day.

In this episode of How We Work:TV, we explore ways to develop our most valuable of organizational assets, our people.

We’ll cover eight strategies — all that don’t cost a dime! They include:

(1) Career Conversations

(2) Musical Chairs

(3) Bring in Outsiders

(4) Never Eat Lunch Alone

(5) Co-Learning

(6) SMART Task Forces

(7) Job Crafting

(8) Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)

Want more ideas, tips, and assistance? Check out my previous posts about creating innovative workplaces and investing in our people, the job crafting workbook available from the University of Michigan, the Inspiring and Motivating Teams course by National Arts Strategies, or try Radical Focus to learn more about OKRs.

Tim Cynova is a leader, HR consultant, and educator dedicated to co-creating anti-racist and anti-oppressive workplaces through using human-centered organizational design. He is a certified Senior Professional in HR, trained mediator, principal at Work. Shouldn’t. Suck., on faculty at New York’s The New School and Canada’s Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and for the past twelve years served as COO and then Co-CEO of the largest association of artists, creatives, and makers in the U.S.