The Share Our Organization Toolkit: A 5-Step Guide to Catalyze Organizational Change (EP)

The "Share Our Organization Toolkit" is a practical guide designed to help organizations foster meaningful change and create a culture of shared purpose through Reflective Structured Dialogue. Developed by Essential Partners  and driven by their What is Essential initiative, this 5-step guide provides tools to inspire engagement, build trust, and align teams toward a common vision. By focusing on storytelling, relationship-building, and strategic communication, the toolkit empowers organizations to spark conversations that drive transformation. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your internal culture, deepen collaboration, or amplify your mission, this resource offers actionable steps to initiate and sustain meaningful organizational change. Read more in the post below.

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Co-created by Essential Partners and the Share Our America team at 92NY’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, the new Share Our Organization Toolkit can help your organization leverage differences of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences to meet goals, set policy, and build a culture of collaboration, innovation, and belonging.​​​​​

In mission-driven nonprofits and multinational corporations alike, teams that share a foundation of trust, mutual understanding, and authentic relationships can unlock their innate creativity, persevere through difficult moments, and foster an ethic of communication and collaboration.

With EP’s research-based Reflective Structured Dialogue framework as the centerpiece, the Share Our Organization Toolkit provides a clear 5-step process to: 

• Organize and lead employee engagements using EP’s RSD framework, proven to build trust, understanding, and relationships across differences
• Successfully navigate challenging, necessary discussions about an important or divisive political issue, organizational policy, or strategy
• Encourage an internal culture of healthy communication, resilience, and belonging
• Support employee engagement and organizational development efforts
• Bolster diversity, inclusion, and belonging priorities or programs running parallel to this intervention

Since 1989, Reflective Structured Dialogue has been used around the globe to help people navigate their differences and repair broken relationships—even across uncompromising divides. RSD can set the stage for organizational change processes, boost culture initiatives, elevate unheard voices, make space to discuss internal tensions or gather ideas toward a new strategy with maximum buy-in.

Resource URL: https://.whatisessential.org/share-our-org-toolkit-pdf​

About Essential Partners (EP)
Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps individuals build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges.  

Its proven approach enables people to live, work, worship, and learn together more effectively. Through richer, healthier, and more inclusive dialogue, participants strengthen relationships while gaining deeper insight into themselves, each other, and the challenges they face collectively.  

Essential Partners believes that the most urgent problems can only be addressed by those who live and work together every day. Relationships rooted in trust and mutual understanding empower individuals to tackle complex issues—ranging from partisan polarization and political dysfunction to interfaith conflicts and abortion access—without compromising their core values or identities. The organization envisions a world of thriving communities, strengthened by difference and connected by trust.

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