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Founder & Chairman at Cotopaxi (B Corp) | Mission President - Brazil Recife North Mission

For those shifting permanently to a hybrid or WFH workforce, what rituals and traditions have allowed your remote workforce to feel connected? Here are some of our new and adapted rituals and traditions: 1. Monthly All-hands: In-person gathering over breakfast. Remote during COVID (or outdoors at park or campground). 2. Quarterly Innovation Tournaments: One of our favorite traditions, which is actually better via zoom than in-person. 3. Quarterly Small Group Adventures: Limited number of participants - backpacking, camping, rafting, cross country skiing. 4. Quarterly Do Good Service: Volunteer as a team in our community. 5. Virtual Hikes: Weekly zoom meeting were we hike or walk around the block (we challenge people to carry a bag and do a trail clean-up as they walk). 6. Virtual clubs: Book club, Pet society, Gardening society, Happy hour, Run club, Recipe club, “The finer things" club. 7. Executive Collisions: Every day our leadership reaches out to someone on the team to check-in, filling the gap of what was lost when we used to run into people around the office. 8. Monthly Small Team Activities: Teams get together monthly for a meal or activity (a hike, skiing, axe throwing, etc.). 9. Monthly CEO lunches: Sign up to grab lunch with me along with a few coworkers.

Julie Callender, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

Director, People Business Partner, Corporate Services at AlixPartners

3y

Love the idea of 'Executive Collisions.' Great list! Thanks for sharing! Our team sends a joke or meme around at the end of each workday, which usually generates an email convo going into the evening or weekend.

Love these Davis!!!

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Davis everything you've listed sounds incredible, but I've noticed a lot of companies in transition to the hybrid/WFH model are loading their people up with activities that can result in less schedule flexibility and less intentional time with family/friends/hobbies (which to us @ Nimbl is the reason to WFH in the first place). In their quest to try and make WFH feel more like the office, they rob Peter to pay Paul because the two models are inherently different. Has your team already baked this into your wholistic WFH model? Super curious about these transitions.

Anne Olsen

The Shop Coworking | YPSLC | UIBC

3y

Love this list!

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Travis Ashby 🏝️

Founder @ Worklyfe / Empowering people to do their best work & live their best lives

3y

Awesome Davis, this is so great! For obvious reasons, I'm a big fan of your experiential focus. I almost feel bad mentioning (for obvious self promotion reasons) but I really believe that experiential rewards can be extremely helpful in unifying companies & teams and are a powerful tool to help companies keep employees happy & engaged. If anyone needs any help offering experiences at scale, hit me up. I can help...

Kainoa Clark

Chief Marketing Officer at The Wasatch Group

3y

We have focused on providing experiences for our individual teams and as a team collectively. It has really helped the team continue building relationships and fostering a sense of support between one another. I mean...who doesn't like to party with Rachel?!

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Wade Hoover

Senior Industrial Designer at Purple

3y

Thank you for helping change the norm Davis. Empowering your employee health and well bing for good will is soooo important for sustaining growth, dealing with change, creating success.

Samantha Warburton

Senior Consultant at Deloitte

3y

We always opened our weekly team meeting with each individual sharing a gratitude - set a great time and allowed us to celebrate with each other and feel more connected!

Elisa Garn

Modern People & Culture Strategist | Proponent for better work, better world

3y

Miki Loveless SHRM-SCP I thought you'd appreciate this!

Maureen Estep

Helping people get outside at REI

3y

Love the virtual hike. I’m going to start that with my team! Thanks for the inspo!

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