RITUALS ROADMAP-Erica Kesmin

* Rituals help us find meaning during uncertain times, they ground us, they offer us security.

* What  make rituals work:

- Rise beyond the practical

- Three Ps: Greaters Purpose/Improved performance/psychological safety 

=> Social cohesion and engagement

* To have a successful day, turn your morning routine into a ritual

- Your working day: Create a new pre-work activity

- Monk Mode Morning (Professor Cal Newport): Not answer emails of phones, not meeting in the morning or hour of meditation.

=> Ask yourself: In what mindset do you want to start your day?

* Transform meetings into gatherings by instilling presence and purpose

- Open meeting with questions: Why are we gathering here in the first place? How is this meeting different from any other? (Purpose)

- Chiming in ritual (Presence): ring a belt, rotating cast; 

* Teams that eat together, stick together: it works if the workplace values live up to the Three P

* The soft stuff is crucial to making a workplace truly human

- At Black Sheep: all employees celebrate a member's first anniversary by an outing and do whatever that person likes best.

* Rituals makes ending meaningful:

- At GoHealth Urgent Care: an end-of-day email which recounts what happens that day

- Rituals on Fridays

=> Best Rituals come from the bottom up