One of the biggest challenges facing businesses is embracing high use of technology while at the same time experiencing high personal-touch engagement. Dr. Gail Townsend explores how individuals, teams, and businesses can harmonize and optimize this seeming polarity between high-tech and high-touch. Which approach is the correct one? The answer is both.
MeaningSphere co-founder Jory Tremblay had a highly "successful" career in the corporate sector: he held senior positions and was winning awards. But much of this "success" left him feeling hollow. In an interview with MeaningSphere's Ali Boston, Jory describes how he left the corporate sector to pursue projects that felt more meaningful to him – ultimately transforming his understanding of success.
Many of us are now working from home on a regular basis, or even do fully remote work. But without the structure of office hours or the daily commute, working from home can be challenging. In this long read, MeaningSphere content strategist Ali Boston shares the daily rituals she follows to bring a little more inspiration, joy, and meaning to her home office.
While researching team rituals, we came across many ideas aimed at office and remote workers. There’s certainly nothing wrong with a monthly pizza party, a virtual coffee date, or a Tacky Tie Tuesday. But what team-building rituals might be taking place on a film set or football pitch, and what can we learn from them? For your inspiration, here are five great team-building rituals from five very different fields.
Career transitions are often the most exciting and the most frightening times of our lives. There's the kind we plan for (for example, the choice to go back to university) the kind we never could have seen coming (a global pandemic that would upend working life as we know it), and a range of complicated situations in between.
MeaningSphere's cultural and business advisor Dr. Gail Townsend has enjoyed a long career helping organizations build and sustain meaningful structures. In the second installment in a two-part series on mentorship, she shares tips for seeking out a mentor as well as mentoring others.
MeaningSphere's cultural and business advisor Dr. Gail Townsend has enjoyed a long career helping organizations build and sustain meaningful structures. In this piece, she reflects on the biggest lessons her mentors have taught her so far about meaningful work.
How can mentorship support us through times of transition in our worklife? And can it help bring a greater sense of meaning to our work? United Effects founder and MeaningSphere team member Bo Motlagh shares how being mentored and mentoring helped him start and build his business.
