Course 1, Discussion 5: 7 Cups Culture
Hello Leadership Crew!
I hope you have been benefitting from this course. This is the last discussion of our course 1.
We take culture seriously on 7 Cups because it is the heart of how we operate. A wise person once said: You teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are. We can have all of the best training content we want, but if our culture is not strong, then we will not be successful in growing a thriving, compassionate, community that will make a global impact.
Every organization has a culture whether by design or by default. When culture (including values and mission are not called out or made explicit, the organization defaults to an implicit or unstated culture. The unnamed culture is not always great for the end users or the community. An example of a common and implicit cultural rule or norm is that the person that makes the most money or the organization is the most important. People that work in this organization then, naturally, because it is the culture, start organizing themselves around ways to make more and more money. The ones at the top of the hierarchy are the ones that make the most money. 7 Cups cares less about money and more about compassion. We call out compassion and celebrate compassionate people because that is central to the work we do.
Please read our guide here to deeply understand our culture. We have made it explicit because we believe it is important to help us all be accountable to what we stand for and believe in. As leaders on 7 Cups, you will be models that emulate our culture and values.
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@Hope
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Outstanding that 7Cups can offer care with a minimum of resources but loads of Human Resources that care and make it happen. I appreciate the Accountability and the reliance on Metrics to constantly measure the individual Leadership accomplishments AND 7Cups expects and grows from 'Failure'; too many think that a measure of success is NO Failure - my life taught me differently.
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@Hope
High expectations and warmth: It is very important to me to ensure that 7 Cups users receive genuine, well-researched, and well-thought-out replies. They are vulnerable and need access to the best resources they can get at the time.
Collaborate: Collaboration is important between team members and helps bring out a greater selection of ideas to choose from. This increases creativity and has the potential to result in a more nuanced solution.
We Expect Failure: Failure is nothing to be ashamed of but must be used as a learning opportunity while giving each person enough time and mental space to reflect. No shame here.
@Gilbird
These were amazing things that u learnt and pointed out! Keep going!
@Hope The 3 most important things I have learned from the guide are:
1. Take Care of Yourself : I feel this the most important
2. Self-Efficacy or Mastery: It is important to improve ourselves
3. Accountability : It is important work ethic
@Hope
This post will list what I believe are the three most important things I learned from the guide below. Again, overall really useful information.
- collaboration, here at 7 cups we all work together to make this site, a really excepting and safe place for all of our members and listeners. Collaboration, enhances, good leader, ship skills respecting everyone’s ideas regardless of any factors we may think will get in the way of a person collaborating we must be respectful of their ideas because they might be really helpful, and help us make decisions and move forward. These qualities can be shown at school, in the community, and at work this is not just apply to cups.
- Excepting failure is also important we can’t all be good at something, life does not work like that. However, we can use support systems or collaboration, as mentioned in the last point to help us, learn and grow. We can also realize that if we were perfect, the world would be boring it’s completely understandable if someone does not understand everything in a task, that’s why collaboration and excepting failure go hand-in-hand.
- Try hard, practice, practice, and more practice! If you don’t put in 100% effort, chances are you haven’t put in your best effort. Without practice, we wouldn’t know how to do any of the things we can do. If you didn’t practice tying your shoes when you were young, chances are, you wouldn’t be able to tie them now as an adult.
@Artalistens so glad that you took the time and reflected in the best possible way , all da best for the journey ahead !!
@Hope Thank you for your post!
To help make it more real, in this post, please highlight the 3 most important things you learned from our guide and why they are important to you
Friendliness and Conscientiousness, we need to build up trust in the community.
Collaborate, as we can solve problem only through discussion and collaboration.
We expect Failure, as we are not perfect and not everything will go right at the first try. The key is to stay focused and keep trying
@Hope I've taken the course exam and I did everything perfectly! Thank you, this course was so informative and we are only starting!
@Hope
What I learned:
- That I am gonna do a very serious, meaningful yet a rewarding role
- 7 cups work on trust
- Focus on the problems
- High expectations and warmth
- Our work has value and it's required to be done urgently
Why it is important:
Because I have committed myself to be a part of this, for my own good and for others
@warmheartedCamp3360
I'm totally with you... I agree that cups culture works on making more out of each individual by providing them the support and environment they need to discover their hidden potential and strengths.
@Hope
3 most important things i learned from this guide are as follows:
1. Importance of trust and high expectations
2. Investment in personal growth and strengths
3. Learning from failure
There three highlights emphasize the importance of creating positive and supportive culture where each individual can make a meaningful impact.
@Hope Three of the most important things I learned from this guide are 7 Cups' dedication to financial accessibility, the high expectations/high warmth dynamic, and the recognition that not everyone is a good fit. I found these important because as a low income student, I often lack access to opportunities due to financial concerns. In addition, I firmly believe that being encouraging and supporting while pushing yourself and others is absolutely necessary to succeed; I think sometimes mental health platforms make the mistake of explaining away problems or mistakes rather than working to combat them and hold yourself accountable, so I like that 7 Cups addresses this. Lastly, I thought the recognition that not everyone is a good fit for 7 Cups was very mature. As much as we try to promote an inclusive culture, not everyone will find 7 Cups helpful and it is okay to have other interests and other ways of helping the community.
@Hope
* We expect failure
At the end of the day we all are humans and mistakes happen but important things is to learn from them .
*Try Hard
It helps to stay active and dedicated towards our work in the team as well as our job as listeners. If we have to be a good listener we need to dedicate ourselves to complete the given tasks in time .
*Strengths based
If we work on something that we are good at then chances are high that the work will be better and faster. It makes us much more effective and productive.
