In my last blog post, I talked about incorporating your Fundamental of the Week into rituals that are already established in your company as an easier way to embed the Fundamentals into your routines. In this post, I’ll offer another suggestion for making your rituals more effective.
Here’s a question I get often: “How do we keep our rituals from becoming stale, tired, and meaningless?” The first time I heard this question, the person gave me the example of saying their prayers before bed every night as a child. They admitted that they weren’t really praying and they didn’t want the rituals around their Fundamentals to become equally bereft of meaning.
Here are three simple suggestions to keep your rituals alive and meaningful:
Rituals are absolutely essential to helping you stay consistent and achieve the repetition that’s necessary to internalize your Fundamentals. Taking these steps to keep the rituals fresh will go a long way to keeping your people engaged.
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