Taking Action
We all love data but the true value of any culture survey rests in the actions it enables us to take as individuals, teams, leaders, and as a community of institutional citizens.
The goal of our LBNL Culture Survey is to (1) help us choose discrete areas of priority and attention and (2) focus our actions and efforts towards driving meaningful progress in those prioritized areas. The 2024 results are now our baseline. By deploying the LBNL culture survey every 2-3 years moving forward, we will be able to track longitudinal progress while giving the institution and all of us enough time between cycles to take intentional & targeted action.
INSTITUTIONAL PRIORITY AREAS
Based on the 2024 survey results, Berkeley Lab's leadership has decided to focus time, resources, and effort towards the 4 institutional priority areas below. Each of these priority areas indirectly speak to the survey's 13 key findings and specifically respond to the 7 findings pictured. These 4 priority areas--- Community & Connection, Work-Life Harmony, Mattering at Work, and Opportunity for Growth & Innovation---correspond to the Areas of Well-Being most requiring the Berkeley Lab community's collective attention.
MENU OF ACTIONS
Every Berkeley Lab employee, regardless of who you are and where you sit in the organization, has the power to convert survey insights into actions that further strengthen the Lab’s culture. We will only be successful if we co-create solutions as a community and combine centralized actions from Berkeley Lab with distributed action from leaders and colleagues
at the Area, Division, team, and individual levels.
The Menu of Actions has two parts: 7 Institutional Actions and 6 Team & Individuals Actions. The Menu showcases the core set of Labwide (Structural & Behavioral) actions/experiments being developed by Lab leadership in partnership with interested Area and Division leadership. At the same time, the Menu gives you, as an employee, the opportunity to consider implementing listed Teams & Individuals actions. These six actions & practices are designed to be easy-to-implement by any team member or team leader in their own sphere of influence at the Lab.
TEMPLATE FOR STRATEGIC ACTION
All Lab leadership teams at the institutional, Area, and Division levels, including Employee Resource Group (ERGs), have received the template below to guide leadership sense-making and action-planning discussions after having explored the data. We invite you to use this template on your teams and in your project work too if you feel so moved. By March 31st 2025, in advance of our Culture Survey (Part 2) Action Town Hall, we will collect these completed templates from leadership teams across the Lab to share key efforts back with the Lab community.
