I echo the comments above about the restructuring making sense. I hope it helps you foster a new healthier, more “joyful” organizational culture. If you achieve it, please bottle some and ship it out east.

Good luck with your ambitious plans. We will be watching closely.

The fact that we had battling departments, all pulling in different directions, and a lack of a unified vision created undercurrents of animosity and distrust. It will take quite a while to turn things around, but one thing that gives me hope was the reaction on the first day — people felt good about the change, in general (or at least that’s what I saw and heard).

Now those of us on the new management team need to model the new culture, need to bring joy and fun back to the company.

Similarly, thinks like grant writing and management aren’t listed. Formally, grant-writing belongs in the Advancement unit, but we don’t have a grant writer today. In most cases, various department heads will actually write grant applications and funnel them through Advancement (and the CEO) for approval.

Hopefully, your team is also taking steps to address the culture and the recognition/reward systems to facilitate the changes outlined on paper.

One question, where does marketing and communications fall in this model?