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Purpose connection moments
To maintain a thread between daily work and larger purpose. At the beginning or end of regular team meetings, include a brief moment connecting to purpose. This can take different forms: • One team member shares a moment when they felt the team's work was particularly… An ongoing team scaffold (meeting element), run each meeting, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 3-5 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, values-clarification
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Each meeting)
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): Model by occasionally sharing your own sense of purpose connection. Protect this time even when the agenda is full.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25