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Is your team taking time every week to celebrate what’s going well?
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Building Strong Work Teams(Part 3): Being Intentional about Celebrating
This is the 3rd in a series of practices rooted in Catalytic Listening, focused on building supportive, effective, and joyful work teams. Read the blog that kicked off this series here.
- Practice #2 focused on how to END meetings, reflecting on what happened to be sure everyone is on the same page.
This week, in Practice #3, we’ll turn reflection into celebration.
Celebrating!
Most meetings focus on what WILL get done, often lamenting what did NOT get done.
What about celebrating the heroic stuff you ARE getting done?
Celebration is inspiring. It is reassuring. It is joyful. And it is one more way team members can support each other's efforts.
Try this:
At the beginning of your next staff / team meeting, after you’ve checked in with each other / shared what’s awesome, take a few minutes to celebrate.
- What did we accomplish since our last meeting? What got done?
- Where are we now that we weren’t the last time we met? What was moved forward?
- What great stuff happened?
- What did we learn that was unexpected? What surprised us? What aha’s did we have?
- Did someone go way beyond what was expected?
- Did something impossible become possible?
Make
a list. Date that list. Keep it on a whiteboard or flip chart sheet, to
look at throughout the week. Or keep it in a binder and add to it every
week. (Added bonus – it makes reporting a lot easier. No need to comb
through calendars to recreate what happened. It’s all there as you
celebrate!)
Our brains are wired to focus on what’s wrong. While
that brain physiology is great for getting us out of danger, when those
reflexes show up in meetings, they prevent us from being our most
rational and creative selves.
Taking
time to celebrate all that your team members are accomplishing focuses
your brain on what is working well. That helps bypass the brain's
fear-and-anxiety center, bringing out the best in yourself and those around you. That is why celebration is part of the Catalytic Thinking framework. |
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Want to learn alongside other people who are trying out these practices? Join us at the Catalytic Thinking in Action community on Facebook -
a welcoming place where you can ask questions and learn from people
like you who are experimenting with these practices. We look forward to
seeing you there!
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eJournal Archives:
If you’re new to our eJournal, or just want to remind yourself of past practice exercises we’ve shared, check out our eJournal archives here.
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Creating
the
Future
is a
collection of
people around
the world,
supporting
each other in
a grand
experiment.
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The
experiment:
To
determine how
much better
the world
could be if
the questions
we ask in our
day to day
lives are
bringing out
the best in
each other.
If
everyone,
everywhere, is
bringing out
the best in
every person
they encounter
– and if the
systems that
guide our
behaviors are
built to bring
out the best
in all of us -
how much
closer will we
all be to a
healthy,
humane world
that works for
all of us?
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