Employee Resource & Affinity Groups
Looking to build trust and connected teams throughout your organization? We can help.
The Circle Center is a consulting, training and facilitation company based in Nashville, TN and serving companies and organizations nationwide.
FEELING CONNECTED MATTERS IN AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND HYBRID WORKFORCE
Americans
don’t feel
they FIT in
their current
workplace.
The first 60-90 days are a
critical time for those new to
an organization, especially
for members of traditionally
underrepresented groups.
4.3 million workers
quit their jobs by the
end of 2021.
CIRCLE BUILDS CULTURES OF BELONGING.
If you are already happy with how your team works together,
communicates, and feels a sense of belonging to the organization
and each other, then congratulations! Build on those amazing wins by supporting your teams with opportunities for affinity spaces and rich, organic mentoring and skill-building across your organization.
AND, if you are like so many organizations experiencing unprecedented turnover, conflict and burn-out, we have the sustainable solutions you have been seeking. Creating impactful collaboration and professional development spaces needed for deep trust-building, real dialogue & feedback is what we do. We help organizations build the cultures of trust and resilience needed to navigate the complexity of today’s workplace. What might dynamic teaming make possible for you and your organization?
Contact us today to set up a chemistry call and find out more about how we can support your organization and its culture!
WHY CIRCLES WORK.
Affinity and Employee Resource Groups enable employees to come together and build connections based on shared lived experience and interests. Interventions like these and topic Circles, examples listed below, bolster communication, collaboration and increase effectiveness, resiliency and productivity. Many organizations find that affinity groups improve onboarding, training and retention processes making it easier for new employees to orient into company culture.
Show employees and community members your appreciation and trust by protecting dedicated space to honor their coming together and the relational aspect of the workplace. These simple and profound culture practices help employees cope with the stress, microaggressions and isolation in hybrid work environments, fostering open communication and resilience across the organization.
Whether in person or virtual, providing a space where employees can associate with peers is vital to creating a sense of community within the workplace.
Already have successful Affinity or ERG Groups? The Circle Center
can help your organization build on this investment by supporting cross-department teaming and the creation of a Mentoring Program, perfect next steps for any ERG!
OUR TEAM
Our diverse team of facilitators has over 400 years of collective experience and offers a wide range of focuses.
EXAMPLE CIRCLE TOPICS
ALREADY SUPPORTING ACTIVE ERGS & AFFINITY GROUPS?
TAKE THESE INITIATIVES TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH AN ORGANIZATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM.
- BIPOC Affinity Group
- Women in the Workplace
- Pride/LGBTQ+ Affinity Group
- Elders/Mentorship Circle
- Managers/Supervisor Circle
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) & Justice/Inclusive leader Circle
- Giving & Receiving Feedback
- Cross- Cultural Communications
- Navigating Conflict in the Workplace (with assessment)
- Organizational Trauma Circles
- Trauma-Informed Leadership
- Time Management Practice Group
- StrengthsFinder & Strengths Based Teaming (with assessment)
- Meeting Facilitation Practice Group
- Emotional Intelligence Learning Group (with assessment)
- Confidence Building Practice Group
- Understanding & Using the Enneagram (with assessment)
- Addressing Burn-out: Personal Resilience, Wellness and Self-Care
- Mindfulness & Trauma Informed Yoga
