As a facilitator of team strengthening programs, Sarah Wood, Director of Consulting Services, reinforces the importance of every team having a clear and shared purpose.
At Brockhurst Consulting we believe it’s critical that every team member understands why the team they are a part of does what it does, and how everyone’s individual contributions connect with this.
In fact, we have recently re-visited our vision and mission with our own team of consultants and coaches at Brockhurst Consulting, and we have all re-committed to our purpose as being:
“We are helping to build a world in which people feel safe and supported at work, so that they are inspired and fulfilled by the work they do.”
Each of our team members feels deeply connected to this collective purpose as we aim to make a positive human impact for the individuals, teams and organisations we work with. Our purpose also acts as our north star guiding us in everything we do.
We take teams through an activity that involves all team members in helping them clarify and articulate their ‘why’ – what is their deeper mission in terms of the impact they are seeking to make:
Why do you do what you do?
What would your team’s purpose be?
What contribution and/or impact are you seeking to make?
There’s never been a more appropriate time to have this conversation with your team to strengthen the connections of team members and to remind them of the value and the impact of the work they do.
We can guide you and your team through this process.
As a passionate student of Neuroscience, Tom Brockhurst provides a tip to help us through these ongoing tough times – learn to be kind to yourself.
Neuroscience tells us that we experience physical pain in the same way we experience emotional pain. We can therefore take some insights from what we do when we have a physical ‘bump’ to what we can do to look after ourselves during the many emotional ‘bumps’ that Covid is currently throwing at us all.
When we experience a physical injury on the sports field, what do we do?
We take some time out of the game
We head to the bench
We get some treatment
We watch the game from the sidelines
We keep in touch
We head back into the game when we are ready
So what can we do for ourselves when we experience pain from the various emotional impacts of Covid? Tom believes it is really important to do whatever it takes to get yourself onto that metaphorical bench, give yourself that break, re-gather your senses and get back into the ‘game’ only when you are ready:
Put your hand up
Take some time out
Step away from your computer
Grab a cup of tea
Go for a walk
Call a friend
Get back to work when you are ready
We can help you generate that new habit of being kind to yourself so give us a call today.
