Perennial, a small arts and sustainability organization in St. Louis, Missouri, teaches people creative ways to reuse salvaged goods. By participating in a SEE learning cohort, they realized they needed to reframe their approach to engaging their board members. Read their story to learn about the tools they used to get on the same page, and the improved communication patterns that followed.

earthday365 joined our cohort in greater St. Louis after grappling with feedback they received during an exit interview, alerting them to challenges with their onboarding. Learning about Supportive Environments for Effectiveness (SEE) helped them better understand the onboarding experience from the new employee’s viewpoint, and what they did with that feedback shows the transformative power of small changes. 

The Gathering Place (TGP) had a process for collecting and providing annual feedback to their employees. The problem? Feedback took a disproportionately long time to complete, and often wasn’t geared toward improvement. TGP worked with staff to understand what was working with the current system, and what wasn’t. Its new system takes time constraints into consideration, and gives staff a more flexible way of discussing performance with their peers.