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Daily-to-long-term connection practices
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)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
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