Rituals are the regular habits, traditions, and processes that teams follow - and they’re often fundamental for building a successful team.
Editor in Chief of The Economist and Team ‘24 speaker Zanny Minton Beddoes described one of her team’s rituals in our Work Life Blog. Each Monday morning, The Economist’s editorial team meets for a pitch session, where anyone can pitch any idea, and have that idea questioned and debated by the rest of the team. Zanny suggests that by interrogating the ideas during the pitching session, ideas are made much stronger!
In the Atlassian Online Community team, we’ve recently started introducing icebreaker questions to kick off our weekly team meetings. Each week on the day before our meeting, I select a question and post it in our team group chat. This way, everyone can have a think about their answer before the meeting and arrive ready to share! With icebreakers, we get to start off our meeting with a bit of fun, and build connections between our team along the way.
So we’d love to hear - do you have a favourite ritual you do with your team? Do your team meetings follow a particular pattern? Or maybe you have regular check-ins asynchronously? Let us know in the comments!
Plus, get our brand new Work Life kudos badge when you join the discussion! Be sure to join the group before adding your comment here to ensure that you receive your badge!
PS: You can check out what else Zanny had to say here.
