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Name: Rituals Roadmap
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Author: Erica Keswin

Erica Keswin

The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines Into Workplace Magic

4.4 (45 Bewertungen)

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Rituals Roadmap by Erica Keswin explains how rituals can bring focus, purpose, and connection to our personal and professional lives. The book offers practical steps for developing meaningful rituals that enhance team dynamics and improve work-life integration.

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What’s in it for me? Learn how workplace rituals can increase your firm’s productivity.

What could boost your company’s productivity? A new set of workflows? Better computers and software? Or maybe even a different way to arrange office furniture? While all these hacks could certainly help, there’s something people often overlook: the power of rituals.

Rituals help us find meaning during uncertain times, they ground us, they offer us security – but they’re also fun and great for business. Rituals allow your team members to feel like part of a family, rather than cogs in a machine.

These blinks will give you the tools to create your own rituals that can guide your employees toward increased health and happiness – and, of course, higher performance.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how to use rituals to kickstart your day;
techniques for upping engagement during meetings; and
the importance of giving your team recognition.

Workplace rituals make business sense.

Being a journalist with the New York Times may sound glamorous – but, just like most of us, newsroom workers also have to contend with repetitive tasks like answering emails and attending meetings. For years, a beloved tradition at the newspaper helped break up the monotony. At exactly 4 p.m., a snack cart used to roll through the newsroom. Journalists rose and stretched, then headed over for some afternoon caffeine and conversation.

The 4 p.m. snack cart was a perfect workplace ritual – but why, exactly? And what do the words “workplace ritual” even mean? Well, the author believes all rituals tick a few very specific boxes.

The key message here is: Workplace rituals make business sense. What makes rituals work?

First, they need to rise beyond the practical. Let’s face it: Staff at the New York Times don’t really need a coffee cart – they can grab a coffee whenever they want. But gathering around that cart gave their coffee breaks greater purpose.

Then there’s also something the author calls the Three Ps. One stands for purpose: as we’ve already seen, rituals make us feel part of something bigger. The other P is for psychological safety. And finally, the combination of purpose and psychological safety brings about greater performance.

Last but not least, you can always tell a good ritual by the fact that people miss it once it’s gone. A few years ago, the Times decided to get rid of the snack cart – and many journalists still regret that decision.

Creating rituals certainly requires psychological and emotional investment. But financially, they don’t really have to cost that much. For instance, the nonprofit organization DoSomething passes around a stuffed penguin toy at meetings. And Microsoft celebrates work anniversaries with M&Ms.

These little ceremonies are very affordable – but they are also priceless. They create social cohesion and engagement; they take away stress and reduce anxiety. These aren’t just lofty words: rituals make great business sense. The American Psychological Association found that workplace stress costs American companies $500 billion and 550 million workdays each year.

So simply by offering your employees a ritual, you can meet their need for belonging and purpose. And that creates a more human and engaging workplace.

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

One of the best-known ceremonies in the world is the Olympic torch relay. It starts in Greece, and dozens of athletes take turns carrying the torch to whichever city is hosting the games. This ritual brings participants together in a shared celebration of fair sportsmanship. It elevates the event and gives it greater philosophical meaning.

You can do something very similar with your workday.

Transform meetings into gatherings by instilling presence and purpose.

Look at your calendar for the day. How many meetings are on it? Nancy Koehn, a professor at Harvard Business School, estimates that roughly 11 million work meetings happen in the US every day. Unfortunately, too often these meetings are, at best, unproductive – and, at worst, lead to lost revenue.

According to Doodle, an online meeting tool, in 2019 the value of productivity lost due to meetings was close to $400 billion.

Teams that eat together, stick together.

We all know that water coolers are magical. They create conversations that give employees new strength and a sense of purpose. As MIT professor Alex Pentland wrote in his well-known essay “The Water Cooler Effect,” this kind of informal workplace socializing bonds groups and ultimately increases productivity.

How can your company leverage this magic? Well, a 2015 study from the Cornell School of Management showed one easy solution: a communal workplace lunch. Eating together is quintessentially human – after all, most modern rituals do revolve around food. So far, however, the corporate environment has been slow to catch up. Lunch is often seen as something mundane – just an hour off, nothing to do with business.

Use rituals to celebrate your employees’ efforts.

In 2013, TIME Magazine ran a cover feature on millennials. The title was scathing: “The Me Me Me Generation.” Older people often feel that millennials require a lot of handholding and recognition. But really, millennials just want to be seen.

And the generation that came after the Millennials – so-called Generation Z – is not dissimilar. Recent studies show that 40 percent of Gen-Zers prefer daily interactions with their boss. Sixty percent want multiple weekly check-ins with their team leader. Ninety-seven percent expect feedback after completing a major project. Taken together, this all shows that workers do not want to be seen just as cogs in the machine. Instead, millennials and Gen-Zers want appreciation for all the effort that they put in.

Rituals make endings meaningful.

One ritual that has really permeated the culture these days comes from Marie Kondo. It’s useful when you want to tidy up your home. Kondo says that you should hold up an object you own and ask yourself whether it sparks joy. If not, thank the item for trying – and then get rid of it. The takeaway here is that rituals help us say goodbye.

A similar approach can also work in your professional life. Whether you’re ending a big project, a work position, a long day, or a stressful quarter, a parting ritual can help you find closure and set you off on the right foot for your next endeavor.

Rituals are crucial tools for turbulent times.

In the previous blinks, you’ve read a lot about how simple rituals can improve everyday life in the office. But the coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives dramatically. It’s blurred the line between work and home. So have rituals died off with morning commutes? Far from it.

Instead, they’ve stepped in to help us deal with the new normal. In New York City, residents began a daily banging of pots and pans outside their windows to salute their healthcare workers. Families across the world began doing Zoom trivia nights, and a lot of people started to experiment with mindfulness.

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Rituals Roadmap (2021) is a modern-thinking guide about how to create workplace rituals that increase employee engagement and strengthen team commitment. It’s an essential piece of wisdom for the human workplace.

Wer Rituals Roadmap lesen sollte

Managers looking to learn a more human touch
Team leaders seeking to instill team spirit
Those who want the magic of ritual to transform their work lives

Über den Autor

Erica Keswin has spent the past twenty years helping high-end brands apply the human touch to their workplace. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. Her previous book, Bring Your Human to Work, was number two on the Wall Street Journal best seller list.

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