A Rest & Refresh Challenge | The Connection Diaries

At Conversant, one of the things we are continuously focused on is how we can design work to be consistent with the nature of being human. Often we look at the ways people connect and collaborate, and our personal well-being is just as important to our ability to do great work. 

As Kell Delaney says, our culture has become “all inhale and no exhale.” We need to create the space for rest–and not just rest, but intentional rest. In this month’s video, Kell and Robin Anselmi discuss this concept of intentional rest and share a fun idea for how to get your teams engaged in a rest and refresh challenge, perfect for this time of year. 

Here’s an example of our company’s Refresh Challenge that we’ll be running with our employees  over the next few weeks: 

Conversant’s End-of-Year Refresh Challenge 

For Conversant employees Those with the most points will get “very valuable” prizes!

• 1 point for each unique thing you do and post about it on Teams
• 2 points if you post about it on Teams and include a picture
• 5 points if you make a relevant connection to our work and post about it on LinkedIn
• 10 points if you do the task with a colleague and co-write about it on LinkedIn
• 20 points if you do it and write a blog post about it

1. Reflect on your accomplishments from the year – what are you most proud of personally? Professionally?
2. Reflect on what didn’t scale this year or wasn’t a great return on your time. What is there to learn and what will you do differently as a result?
3. What goals, focus, etc. do you want to set for yourself personally next year?
4. We’ll be talking about company goals in January, but based on what you know right now, what would you propose your professional goals should be for next year?
5. Clean your office
6. Clean out your email
7. Clean up your electronic files
8. Re-arrange something, add something, or remove something in your office space
9. Read a new book
10. Take a tech free day (be sure to notify us! And post about it the next day!)
11. Explore a topic on YouTube, TED Talks, HBR, etc.
12. Start a 3-day journaling practice
13. Have a conversation with someone important to you and learn something new about what’s important to them
14. Volunteer for something that matters to you
15. Other – something new that you add on Teams (bonus points to you if others try it!)

The list below you can repeat on multiple days:

17. Listen to On Connection
18. Listen to another podcast
19. Take a walk (more joy and more points if it’s a walking meeting!)
20. Watch a Conversant video or read a Conversant blog

Full Transcript Coming Soon!