Designing Meaningful Team Experiences Part III: Connect Everything to the Big Picture
Too often, team-building feels disconnected from the real work.
In the third post of my series on high-impact team experiences, I explore why context is the difference between a feel-good moment and a real inflection point. Whether you're setting priorities, navigating change, or strengthening connection, anchoring in strategy, vision, and purpose helps your team show up with clarity and momentum.
Because the best team experiences aren’t just meaningful—they’re useful.
Dying to Transform
Effective transformation isn’t just about embracing the future—it’s about guiding the past to a meaningful conclusion. Like trees that actively "compost themselves" to nourish new growth, successful change requires harvesting wisdom from what came before while making space for what’s next. Leaders who rush toward the future risk shallow, unsustainable growth, while those who cling to the past can suffocate progress. True transformation balances both, requiring intentionality, patience, and the right resources to ensure that endings and beginnings are equally well-stewarded. When done with care, change becomes more than a transition—it becomes the foundation for something that lasts.
Designing Meaningful Team Experiences Part II: Know Your Team
Knowing your team may seem obvious, but considering them through three distinct lenses can make your team-building sessions far more impactful. By tuning into the dynamics at play, leaders can design sessions that foster trust, alignment, and meaningful engagement.
Productive Empathy: Caring for Your Team and Your Business
Balancing empathy and business realities is one of the toughest challenges leaders face. Employees bring their whole selves to work, and at times, personal struggles will collide with business demands. How can leaders create workplaces that support employees while ensuring the organization continues to function?