If there’s one thing multinational pharmaceutical companies know how to do, it’s innovate and problem-solve on a massive scale. Encouraging employees at all levels to share their ideas is more of a challenge.

For better or for worse, whether you are committed to the mission or just showing up for a paycheck, our jobs are an integral part of our identities. And more than anything else, we are social beings who want a sense of belonging. We want to care about and be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

We totally nerd out when it comes to Cultivators stories. So, when we come across them, whether in a Twitter thread or a news article, we save them and share them. We truly believe that amplifying Cultivator voices will inspire other Cultivators (like you) to make change happen within their organizations. 

We got a chance to get to know the Cultivator’s new Community Manager when he gave us 30+ minutes to ask him anything we wanted.

As a global leader in eye care, Alcon relies on innovation and collaboration—and to stay on top of the market, the company needs its associates at the top of their games.

Alcon R&D wanted to create a culture that nurtured and grew ideas and talent—but in a global enterprise, top-down initiatives rarely lead to real change. A true community of changemakers needs to be built from the ground up. That’s where Cultivate came in.

Truly listening to employees and their ideas remains a struggle for many large organizations. With so much to do, it can be easy to ignore the insights and ideas that our front-line employees are sitting on, even when we know there can be tremendous opportunity in those insights and ideas.

Before the-year-that-must-not-be-named came to an end, the Cultivators Community hosted a Goal-Setting Workshop.

Welcome to our learning design shop at Cultivate! We recently developed a new program called the Empowered Cultivator Lab. You may have heard about it.

For those of you curious about how we create this sort of thing, here's a behind-the-scenes look.

The beginning of the year is frequently when many of us focus on building new habits and taking new actions. And while we may feel steadfast in our commitments to these new behaviors at the outset, keeping up with them over time can be challenging.