The New Crop: Issue #67
what your behavior says about what's important to you + "icebreakers you can steal for a better meeting"
What’s in this issue:
💭 Thought: What your behavior says about what’s important to you
📚 Read: Icebreakers You Can Steal for a Better Meeting (I Promise)
😆 Today’s Laugh
💭 Today’s Thought
If a frog turns right and catches a fly, and then turns left and catches a fly, and then turns around backward and catches a fly, the purpose of the frog has to do not with turning left or right or backward but with catching flies. If a government proclaims its interest in protecting the environment but allocates little money or effort toward that goal, environmental protection is not, in fact, the government’s purpose. Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.
- Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
The lifelong challenge in front of you and me, as humans and as leaders, is this:
To have your words and your actions tell a consistent, authentic story about what’s important to you.
This week, take a few moments to reflect on the following and see how closely your answers line up with what you think or say is most important:
Where does your time and energy tend to go?
What [initiatives/outcomes/people] get your support and recognition?
What [initiatives/outcomes/people] get neglected or put on hold?
And a challenge: based on what you come up with, choose a small step you can take to close the gap between what you say is important and what you show is important.
📚 Today’s Read
Icebreakers You Can Steal for a Better Meeting (I Promise)
In this article, Jackie Colburn shares a handful of (non-cheesy) icebreakers that you can immediately use to inspire connection and grounding at the start of your meetings. Click to read more.
See you next week!
xo,
Anne