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Writer's pictureCindy Clarkin

Creating Culture

Updated: Dec 19, 2019


The RI HOPE Student Leaders have a responsibility to create culture in our chapter that is engaging, challenging, supportive, transformative and safe. They are the examples to whom other people look. They will either guide others well or poorly.

cul·ture /ˈkəlCHər/: a) The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. b) The set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic. (Merriam Webster)

Today I taught from the ICC Navigator Curriculum to help refresh their mind about the elements of ICC culture. We also brainstormed ideas as a team to create that culture in the RI HOPE Chapter Meetings.

In our discussion we talked about:

  • Elements of ICC Culture

  • Core Values: peacemaking, cultural communication, mentoring, transformation, innovation, community.

  • Ready for influence!

  • A safe community.

  • A place where ordinary students become extraordinary leaders.

  • Chapters, conferences, curriculum

  • Online Academy.

  • “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” --John Maxwell

  • Elements of RI HOPE Chapter culture

  • Practicing giving feedback/getting feedback.

  • Mentoring:

  • Wise Guides - someone older and/or wiser speaking into the life of someone less experienced

  • Side guides - peers who speak into our lives; those who are just one or two steps ahead

  • Surprise guides - reverse mentoring, learning from those who are younger or less experienced

  • Learning in community.

  • Giving presentations in our community.

  • Implementing respect.

In our discussion we asked important "Why" Questions:

  • Why is creating and maintaining chapter culture important?

  • Because it fulfills ICC’s mission of getting ready for influence.

  • It makes chapter and ICC a place that people want to be.

  • It connects us as a community.

  • It helps us invite others in, because there is something real, inviting and concrete to show them.

  • It is empowering for SLs to understand that leaders, in general, can proactively and deliberately shape the culture of the groups they lead.

  • Chapter culture provides a standard against which behavior and decisions can be evaluated.

The Student Leaders Created Four Posters

Do you want to join the RI HOPE Student Leadership Team?

Contact me (Cindy.Clarkin@ICCinc.org) to find out how you can become a member of the Institute for Cultural Communicators, an expanding global community empowering next generation Christians to influence today's culture.

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