Today is Tuesday Coaching Day on MWAC, and a great talk story possibility for the workplace has emerged with the first comment I received there from Joanna Young;
Beyond those five senses we normally think about, (those of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting and touch) what other senses are important in your workplace?
There are three that I talk about in today’s Tuesday Essay:
- Sense of Place
- Sense of Belonging
- Sense of Connection
And Joanna brought up a 4th which intrigues me: Sense of Wilderness.
When you think about it, you can fill in this Sense of ________ blank with a near endless stream of possibilities, however if you ask your team, what will THEY say? And why might it be important in YOUR workplace culture?
Would the “Wellspring” in your workplace culture look like this:
Photo Credit: welly wellly welly welly well on Flickr by é¡”ãªã—.
Or would it look like this?
Photo Credit: Ronnie’s Stonework on my Flickr page.
Is there another image which would capture it better?
Consider having this Sense of Place talk-story in one of your huddles this week, and please come back to share your results with us if you do!
Here’s a quick link to this week’s Tuesday Coaching: As usual, it is an essay, longer than most blog posts, and though you can read it through once in less than a Daily 5 Minutes, my Tuesday essay is intended to give you a full week’s worth of Ho‘ohana-inspired self-coaching:
Where is this “wellspring?” Your Ho‘ohana and your Sense of Place
Sub-headings you will find there are:
- Our Value Study: Nānā i ke kumu. This is 1st Tuesday.
- Get the most out of Nānā i ke kumu with Value-Alignment
- Go to the Well (the five places your wellspring draws from)
- Sense of Place
- Sense of Belonging
- Start With Where You Live
So in essence, I am also suggesting that after you have started with where you live, you can continue with Where You Work!