If there is one activity that you should always be revisiting with your team, it’s their purpose.
Even now, especially now, with your team disrupted, it's a great opportunity to take 15 minutes and think about what your team’s purpose is and how they are executing towards that vision.
You will not need complicated presentation decks or spreadsheets.
You will not need to take an afternoon off and go on a spiritual retreat.
A purpose is what gives your team a line to follow, a direction to go, and a way to point the ship. Without it, your team (and you) are responding to the whims and needs of others on an ongoing basis and never really developing beyond their current path. You are there for others, but not for your most important asset, yourselves.
No one starts out wanting to run a team that reacts to every situation all the time and does nothing else, but that’s what can happen over time if you let it.
Figure it out
To get started, all you will need is, yourself, alone and 15 minutes to ask yourself these questions.
What are we currently working on?
Is it the best use of our abilities?
What should we be focused on?
