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CivicMakers’ 2022 Team Retreat
Last week, we brought our team back together for the first CivicMakers retreat in over three years. In addition to…

CivicMakers facilitated our signature Learning Lab program, an eight week, hands-on learning and engagement experience for cross-departmental teams in public institutions, with the City of San José in 2020. This was our first Learning Lab conducted entirely virtually.
“I came out [of Learning Lab] with skills to be a better manager, adding a more human approach to each day, adding emotion and not just the business.”
Learning Lab Participant Cohort 1, City of San Jose Cohort
The pilot was a unique collaboration between HR and IT, blending staff capacity-building (Human Resources) and San José’s OneCity Workplace intranet initiative (IT). The inaugural cohort was brought together into three cross-departmental teams to learn about and apply human-centered design tools and techniques to a key City challenge. Teams were each assigned a unique challenge, including: How Might We (1) create an engaged and informed workforce, (2) optimize virtual productivity, (3) improve collaboration in a distributed workspace?
We are currently on our fourth cohort with teams tackling citywide challenges.
Last week, we brought our team back together for the first CivicMakers retreat in over three years. In addition to…
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