Daily-to-long-term connection practices

Long-Term Orientation and Visioning Inner Compass Proactivity Integrity and Authenticity

Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective

Holding · facilitation1 — host

Trust · group readiness★★some

Disclosure · what is sharedoptional

To maintain a thread between daily work and longer-term goals. Integrate brief long-term references into regular team meetings: • Occasionally ask: 'How does this relate to where we're trying to go over the next year?' • When making decisions: 'How will we feel about this… An ongoing team scaffold (meeting element), run at regular meetings, not as a one-off session.

Practical

Time: 2-5 min
Group: 3–20 · small-group
Settings: in-person, online
Materials: None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
Mechanisms: life-embedding, perspective-taking, cognitive-reframing
Change scope: state → skill · recurring-practice (At regular meetings)

Origin & where it lives

Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)

Instructions: open online

In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library

Team leader role (Jordan): Ask the long-term questions regularly. Model considering long-term implications. When short-term pressures dominate, explicitly name the tension.

status: checked · added 2026-08-25