Doing Culture Right: 10 x Playbooks For Startup People Leaders
10 x Essential Culture Playbooks For Startup People Leaders
Save yourself 100's of hours of preparation, planning and workshop design.
Elevate your leadership and culture-building skills with a comprehensive collection of culture playbooks designed for startup people leaders.
Whether you're a founder committed to intentionally designing your ways of working for operational excellence or a People Leader looking to accelerate your culture-building journey and upskill facilitation skills, this is your blueprint for speed and success.
About the authors
John Faulkner-Willcocks & Adam Horne are the founders of openorg.fyi and have worked with over 100 startup leadership teams to help design and embed culture change. This is a consolidation of their 25+ years of experience company-building with a 'transparency-first' mindset.
What is it?
A meticulously crafted series of 10 x culture playbooks built in Notion, ready to deploy with facilitation guidance, comms templates, and post-workshop tools for tracking & embedding culture change.
Who is it for?
- Time Poor People Leaders: Looking to accelerate their ability to plan & deliver effective workshops.
- First Time Head of Peoples: Looking to upskill their company-building craft.
- Founders: Committed to establishing a positive, productive startup culture from the ground up.
What's the community saying?
What's in the box?
A collection of 10 culture playbooks:
🏕️ Building A People Manager Community Of Practice From Scratch
🪂 We F*cked Up. Now What?
🚦 Team Health Checks: An Alternative To Survey Fatigue
🧘♀️ How To Set Effective Boundaries For You And Your People Team
🧩 Team Offsite: Culture Co-Creation
⚡ You Know What Needs To Be Done. Here’s How You Get Heard.
🔮 Creating Clarity With Documentation: Your Transparency Charter
🧠 Not Seeing The Behaviours You Want? Here’s How To Reset
👊 Working Through Conflict: 3 Scenario Based Toolkits
🦞 Creating A Feedback Culture That Sticks
Each playbook features:
- Notion template with a detailed facilitation guide.
- Pre-workshop comms templates for Slack/Email.
- Target outcomes, timeframe, and an embedding guide to ensure lasting impact.
- Tracker for follow-ups and progress.
You also get:
👉 1 x free 30min coaching call to help you tailor to your specific context.
Got questions?
Email John at john@openorg.fyi or say hi on LinkedIn / Twitter
FAQ
Can I share this with my team?
This is intended for individual use only, but if you are tight on L&D budget and want to share with your immediate team, please do.
Does purchase include lifetime access to future updates to playbooks?
Yes!
How do I join the Open Org Slack Community?
👉 You can apply here and join 192 other startup culture builders.
10 x culture playbooks and a 30 minute coaching call to help you execute.