OPINION:
Do you have a clear sense of purpose in your business?
Does your team know why your business exists (the big why - your greater purpose for being)? Do you and your team know what the business goals are for the next one to three years?
Still possibly one of the greatest movie speeches of all time is in the film Braveheart where William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson) encourages the Scots to stay unified by focusing on a common vision - freedom. You may not be running down a hill, waving a sword and prepared to fight to the death for a cause but you will spend a huge amount of your life at work.
Do you approach work as the place you drag yourself to where you die a slow death or is it merely a means to an end? Or do you have a glorious purpose?
In the excellent research project done by Google, called Re:Work, they identified high-performing teams have five common qualities:
1. psychological safety
2. dependability
3. structure and clarity
4. meaning
5. impact