Modeling Strong Relationships Among Staff Members
Deeper Connections: Modeling Strong Relationships Among Staff Members is a four-minute and 20-second video that shows how using the Search Institute’s Developmental Relationships Framework consistently across organizations can build a sense of teamwork and collaboration among staff members.
Search Institute partners in the Relationships Outcome Initiative (ROI) share the ways they implement the principles of the developmental relationships framework to deepen and strengthen relationships within organizations.
Leaders in partner organizations express ways the five elements of the developmental relationships framework — Express Care, Challenge Growth, Provide Support, Share Power, and Expand Possibilities — have changed their organizations’ cultures and communications styles and deepened their missions.
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Modeling Strong Relationships Among Staff Members
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"Now, with the tools that we have and the intentionality that we use, it has become more open. We get into some of the toughest, deepest conversations that affect us at home as well as at work."
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Resources for school and youth program staff
Relational Practice
Approaches to Providing Support
Ten approaches that can be integrated into classroom or program activities that build the Provide Support element of the developmental relationships framework.
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What Makes You Happy?
Activity where participants share their deep interests, talents, or activities — their sparks — with a group.
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Approaches to Expressing Care
Ten approaches that can be integrated into classroom or program activities that build the Express Care element of the developmental relationships framework.
Resources for School and Youth Organization Leaders
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Mystery Person
Activity where participants write down their strengths anonymously and then try to guess who possesses which strengths.
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Three Wishes Magic Wand
Participants take turns sharing a wish they have for their life, and the group writes down positive words of encouragement for the person who shared.
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How to Use the Activities and Approaches
A brief guide to facilitating and using the activities and approaches designed for classroom and group settings.