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Team365 #3182: Happy Gratitude Day

9/21/2022

It’s World Gratitude Day! Gratitude is a key skill to foster in times of change and disruption.

Here’s 10 statistics Halo.com shared around Gratitude – link to

70% of employees would feel better about themselves if their boss were more grateful, and 81% would work harder.
Employees who experience more gratitude at work report fewer depressive symptoms and stress.
95% of employees agree that a grateful boss is more likely to be successful.
Regular gratitude journaling has been shown to result in 5% to 15% increases in optimism and 25% increased sleep quality.
Lack of gratitude is a major factor in driving job dissatisfaction, turnover, absenteeism, and burnout.
53% of employees would stay at their company longer if they felt more appreciation from their boss.
Gratitude reduces toxic aggression, frustration, and regret even after receiving negative feedback.
In a study of 800 descriptive trait words, “grateful” was rated in the top 4% in terms of likeability.
Over 90% of American teens and adults indicated that expressing gratitude made them “extremely happy” or “somewhat happy”.
A five-minute daily gratitude journal can increase long-term well-being by 10%.

Original Article at https://halo.com/10-amazing-statistics-to-celebrate-national-gratitude-month/

A reminder that this week I am part of a four-day Gratitude Giveaway. Access your free gifts including Your Heartfelt Gratitude Journaling Trio! from Emma-Louise Elsey in the High Five Gratitude Giveaway that runs for a limited time Sept.18-21st. Sign up now to benefit from deepening and expressing gratitude in all areas of your life.

When you sign up, you’ll have a link to my gift – Conversation Sparkers for Working with Gratitude in Groups and Teams. Take a moment and sign up now!

With appreciation,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3181: Video of the Week: 10 Things Remote Professionals Need to Know

9/20/2022

We’ve been posting a weekly video from the 90-Day Guide for Success over at our Virtual and Remote Visionaries Hub on Facebook (link to this). In last week’s video I covered 10 things Professionals need to know. Be sure to check out this short video.

Consider where you are in each of the 10 areas which include:
Building Relationships
Role Clarity
Decision Making
Prioritization

What else is an important skill set for you right now?

Enjoy the conversation,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3180: Join us until September 21st for the High Five Gratitude Giveaway

9/19/2022

Did you know that deepening gratitude can improve your health, resilience, and overall quality of life? Being able to express and embody feelings of gratitude improves your relationship with yourself and others too.

Gratitude has a healing quality and is proven to have many health and wellness benefits.

Gratitude is more than saying “thank you” – it is a way of being. It is a way of living a grateful life. Gratitude is both a virtue and a skill. We can all learn new ways to deepen, express and live our gratitude.

September 21st is World Gratitude Day. To honour this day, Lynda Monk, Director of the International Association for Journal Writing (IAJW.org) has put together the High Five Gratitude Giveaway.

This Gratitude Giveaway features 5 free gifts that can help you cultivate gratitude in every area of your life in fun, creative and meaningful ways.

I am excited to offer my gift in this event – Conversations Sparkers for Working with Gratitude in Teams and Groups and you can click here.

Sign-up now and get my free gift plus 4 other amazing free gifts including:

Your Heartfelt Gratitude Journaling Trio! from Emma-Louise Elsey
Thank You for What’s Coming My Way! Gratitude Bundle from Laura West
Conversation Sparkers for Working with Gratitude in Groups from Jennifer Britton
Thanks a Bunch – 6 Tips for Starting & Keeping a Gratitude Journal (plus, a Gratitude Template!) from Kathleen Adams
20 Journal Prompts & Affirmations to Cultivate Gratitude from Lynda Monk

This High Five Gratitude Giveaway runs from September 18th – 21st, 2022.
Don’t miss this! Click here to sign-up now and get your FREE GIFTS!

With gratitude,
Jennifer Britton

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3179: Week In Review

9/18/2022

Welcome back to another Sunday post and the week in review. This week we’ve taken a look on

Monday September 12 – Video of the week – Routines, Habits and Practices

Tuesday September 13 – Boosting your Team Practices – 10 ideas

Wednesday September 14 - Jazz up your team meetings with visual cards, icons and other visual prompts

Thursday September 15 – Team Builder – Visual Cards Option #1 – Select a Card

Friday September 16 – Friday Flashback – Brain Tip from Reconnecting Workspaces – Make it Visual (Chapter 1)

Saturday September 17 - What are you grateful for? This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

teams365 #3178: What Are You Grateful For?

9/17/2022

This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to consider what you are grateful for? Starting later this week I’ll be part of a Gratitude Giveaway with a number of other coaches, and professionals who support dialogue in the area of gratitude.

There has been much research which has shown that practicing gratitude helps with resilience and flow.

As a starting point, what are you grateful for?

For more ideas on how to foster Gratitude in your team, check out this 2014 Teams365 blog post, which covers 3 ways including gratitude journals, digital journals and the gratitude letter.

Enjoy your weekend!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3177: Friday Flashback – Reconnecting Workspaces Brain Tip Chapter 1: Make It Visual

9/16/2022

Today we reach back to Chapter 1 of Reconnecting Workspaces book Brain Tip which was to Make things Visual. I felt that this would be appropriate given our focus on making things more visual in this week’s posts.

Take a look at what I shared as the first Brain Tip of Chapter 1 in Reconnecting Workspaces.

Visuals are an important anchor and focus point for professionals in the virtual, remote and hybrid space. In addition to visuals creating an anchor, they also serve to make complex issues more understandable.

Here’s a short excerpt from Reconnecting Workspaces

BRAIN TIP: MAKE IT VISUAL/FOCUS
Visuals are powerful. While commonly debated as a point of potential “fake news,” a 1982 IBM brochure indicated that our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text.

A study by Crocket found that “people can remember the content of 2500 pictures with over 90 percent accuracy 72 hours after looking at them for only 10 seconds. A year later participants had 63 percent recall of those same images. With traditional lecture format delivery, students only remember 10 percent of the material 72 hours later.”

Think about how metaphor, and how visual metaphors, i.e., pictures, can capture and encode ideas in a much different way than just words.

It’s one of the reasons why we’re exploring this here, and you’ll notice across this book that each chapter has icons to signify some of the key tips of the chapter, along with other illustrations.”

Excerpt – Reconnecting Workspaces: Jennifer Britton, page 20, All Rights Reserved.

Be sure to pick up a copy of the book at Amazon.

Enjoy your conversation!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Team365 #3176: – Team Builder: Visual Cards Option #1 – Select a Card

9/15/2022

Today we are going to start an 11-week series around different ideas for incorporating visual cards into your team meetings. I hope that this is one more way you can create a little more engagement and focus on your meetings:

1. Select a Card
The facilitator/leader, coach or trainer will lay out the cards on a large table or in an area where all the cards can be seen by participants. It can be useful to lay them out on a freestanding table so people can move around it and
see the photos from different perspectives. You may want to include cards with photos or also include the cards with questions.
Give each person a few minutes to select the card. Provide individuals with a few minutes to take notes on their reflections on these questions about their cards:
General questions to be asking:

• What’s significant about this card?
• What’s in focus?
• What’s dominant?
• What’s in the background?
What’s missing?

This activity can be facilitated as quickly as 5-10 minutes or if you want to take the conversation deeper, spend upwards of 30 minutes in dialogue.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3175: Jazz Up Your Team Meetings with Visual cards, Icons and Other Visual Prompts

9/14/2022

One of the things that increased in time during the pandemic was meetings. Pre-pandemic many meetings were noted as being very ineffective. Consider why you want to host your meetings with your team? Is it to make decisions? Keep everyone up to date? OR Help support connection and collaboration across the team?

The later – supporting collaboration and connection – has been a big part of the reason teams are being called back into the office. If you are looking to create something fun to help boost the conversation, consider using visual cards.
We’ve used visual cards in our meeting and facilitation work for years. From our start originally with using Center for Creative Leadership’s Visual Explorer Deck, to our design and development of the Conversation Sparker Cards, we’re a real advocate for creating some novelty and jazz with visual cards.

Visual Cards can be used for a variety of purposes including:

Support to team meeting kick offs
As a closure exercise to confirm what people got out of the call
Working sessions to help the team with visioning or strategic thinking
To creativity sessions and innovation generation.

We’ve developed so many ways to use visual cards that I published the 40 Ways to Work with Visual Cards e-book back in 2016. Pick up a digital download at our Potentials Realized site.

Starting tomorrow, Thursday September 15th, I’ll be starting a weekly blog post on different ways to bring in visual cards to your team events. I hope that you will find it valuable!

Happy Wednesday,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3174: Boosting Your Team Practices- 10 Ideas

9/13/2022

Yesterday I shared our recent 90-Day Guide for Success video: Routines, Habits and Practices – if you missed it you can view it here.

In yesterday’s post I shared more about routines and habits in support of performance, but what about practices?

Practices are things we do on a regular basis to support relationships and results. This might include:

Weekly or bi-weekly Team Meetings
Monthly social events for team members to connect – i.e. afterwork fun events like ping pong or lunchtime potlucks
Quarterly Team Booster Shots or Retreats – one of our most popular offerings this year has been half day Team Strengths Days which we offer to teams virtually, helping them learn more about themselves, their strengths and/or styles. Take a look at what we do and learn more about our Team Days
Team buddies – where team members are paired with one or two others to create informal peer connections and/or mentoring
Formal and informal mentoring
Lunch and learns to facilitate learning more formally
Development and review of team norms on a regular basis

Beyond events, we want to make sure that as teams we are:

Connecting – getting to know each other. Understanding our roles and how they overlap
Communicating – Formally and informally. Taking time to review and focus on how effective our different communication channels are
Collaborating

In fact, all of the 7 Cs I shared as Remote Enablers are just as important as team practices. Be sure to check out the 7 Enablers again if you haven’t revisited them in a while. You can find them in this video entitled Remote Team Boosters.

You can also read more about them in much greater depth in Reconnecting Workspaces, as well as the 90-Day Guide for Success.

Enjoy the conversation!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

Teams365 #3173: Weekly Video – Routines, Habits and Practices

9/12/2022

With last week being “back to work” in office and from anywhere for so many, we thought it would be fitting to focus on Routines, Habits and Practices.

As I shared last week at the Coaching Biz Growth Lab, routines and habits free up space for us to do things more automatically. This then provides more cognitive space to focus on other things that matter.

Consider what routines you are creating this fall. Maybe it’s taking 30 minutes to get out of the office at lunch to get some exercise (good for the brain) and to create some thinking space. Maybe a routine is starting early so you can leave early. What’s the routine you want to develop this year?

Habits are things you do automatically. One of my habits here (up at the condo) is to get to the gym first thing every day I am here. After 9 months is automatic and everyone around me knows just where to find me.

A reminder that it takes about 60 plus days to develop a habit, until it becomes automatic. Take a look at this short video which brings to live Day 40 of the 90-Day Guide for Success. Pick up a copy of the guide at Amazon.

What are the habits you want to start building this fall?

Enjoy the conversation,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon