Where purpose connects, and where it gets lost.
Facilitated conversation where participants share where purpose connects to their working life and where it tends to get lost, drawing on their own experience.
Purpose, Day to Day shifts the session from personal reflection to shared exploration. Participants bring their own experience of purpose at work into conversation with others, exploring where it is most present, where it tends to fade, and what that tells them about their own context. Because this is an open session, the diversity of roles and organisations in the room is an asset: people often find it easier to articulate their own experience when they hear someone else name theirs first.
Participants gain perspective from others in the room on how purpose shows up differently across different roles and contexts, and identify where they personally feel most and least connected to their why.
Frame an open conversation with two questions about where people feel most connected to their why at work and where that feeling disappears, then draw out the common threads across different contexts.
Frame the conversation with two questions, written up where everyone can see them: where do you feel most connected to your why at work, and where does that feeling tend to disappear? Set the group up to share.
Facilitate an open discussion. Your role is to draw out specifics, make connections between what people are saying, and give quieter people room to contribute. Because this is a mixed group, encourage people to describe their context briefly before sharing, which helps others relate it to their own. Useful prompts: what is an example of a day or project where you felt genuinely connected to your purpose; what tends to get in the way of that feeling for you; and has anyone else experienced something similar, or something quite different?
Draw the threads together and name the common patterns running beneath the different contexts. That moment of recognition, when people see the feeling is the same across very different jobs, is often one of the most valuable things they take away.
Use Purpose, Day to Day when you want a group to share where purpose connects to their work and where it fades. Hearing how it shows up across different roles helps each person locate where they feel most and least connected to their why.
Using this tool with a skilled facilitator means that discussions are focused, time is used efficiently, and the group moves toward consensus, making the session productive and impactful.
