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CeLTA Work Philosophy Statement

We recognize personnel as whole people and therefore value both work and personal lives of all CeLTA colleagues and strive to create a friendly and flexible working environment. This includes flexible, realistic, creative, comfortable, and compassionate options within this work statement. CeLTA operates on an open dialogue and trust-based, compassionate dynamic, and thus we strive to maintain an open space for discussing adaptive work conditions that suit employees’ most current needs in a rapidly changing world. We strive to be respectful of other people’s work styles and trust them to make autonomous, dynamic, proactive, reflective, and responsive decisions about how they are most effective and efficient given situational circumstances and needs and continue to explore ways of continuously balancing collective needs with individual and personal needs. We utilize collectively agreed upon processes, tools, and technologies that enable us to achieve that balance. We acknowledge that our work is varied and diverse. For example, some work needs to be synchronous, may be time-bound, and/or performed collectively, while other work needs to be uninterrupted, takes time, and may be done individually. We also acknowledge that working in the field of language education and innovation there is inherent value in being abroad for periods of time, and will support this if possible.

We believe that this leads to more creative and innovative outcomes, more efficient processes, and more connections, which aligns with CeLTA’s values: to connect, to innovate, and to transform.

This aspirational statement was co-written by all staff and faculty in CeLTA and we will revisit it regularly.