Operating Principles

What You Can Do

What You Can Do Today

Print a poster from this website and post it in your workspace. Appreciate someone through our Appreciate page, thank them publicly, or do a go-around (appreciating the person to your left) at your next staff meeting. Suggest a staff meeting opening in which each person shares the principle that is most meaningful to him or her and why.

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Case Study: NOW Conference

A Case Study on Including Diverse Perspectives: The NOW Conference

For the organizers of the annual NOW conference, UC Berkeley’s career development conference focused on campus staff, “including and excelling” proved to be a vital part of that conference’s success.

Held on March 1, the event proved popular with campus staff: Within 24 hours of the Chancellor’s email invitation to all staff, the 250 slots for the conference were completely filled and over 100 people joined a waiting...

Download a Poster

The following posters are available for download. They are designed to be printed in color on standard letter-sized paper.

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Articles & Research

Operating Principles and Culture Berkeley Operating Principles LDP report (PDF) The Power of Culture: How the Defining Principles are sparking change at Berkeley-Haas, Berkeley Haas Magazine, Summer 2012 Leading by Leveraging Culture (PDF), a working...

UC Berkeley Thank You Cards

New UC Berkeley Thank You Cards are now available at no charge so that campus employees can appreciate one another’s excellent work with a memorable keepsake.

The Value of Saying Thank You

More and more studies show that expressing gratitude makes people happier and healthier. At work, appreciation is a major driver of job satisfaction and happiness, and...

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