Marc Haine connects Indigenous community structures to workplace culture, arguing that assigning roles and responsibilities from the start builds trust and cohesion. In Indigenous communities, shared participation across generations created the foundation for survival for thousands of years, a model that can strengthen modern teams.
Working together, how, as we mentioned earlier, how are we ensuring that we're building and maintaining trust and setting that really strong foundation? So to bring in the Indigenous perspective, community was number one. That was how you survived, was your role in— was being a part of a community. And you had a role from childhood that included responsibilities. And so you were learning from the aunties and the uncles, and you were— but you were working and you were participating, and everybody had roles and responsibilities. And it was that cohesiveness and collectiveness that really helped survive— helped communities survive millennia in North America, since time immemorial is what is usually said. Mm-hmm.
