Turn purpose into one concrete change.
A practical personal exercise where participants apply the session's thinking to their own situation and leave with something concrete.
Putting Purpose to Work closes the session with individual action. Each participant works through a short structured exercise to articulate what drives them and identify one concrete thing they can change in how they work. It is deliberately brief: the aim is a clear, useful output, not an exhaustive personal development plan.
Each participant leaves with a simple personal purpose statement and a clear view of one change they want to make to how they work.
Give each person a concrete, personal takeaway by working through a short worksheet, then invite a few to share and prompt them to revisit it in a month.
Hand out the worksheet, or display the questions, and give people ten minutes to work through it individually and quietly. The questions: in one or two sentences, what gives my work meaning; where does that show up most clearly in what I do day to day; where is it least visible; and one thing I want to change or do more of. The worksheet is the takeaway, so print it if you are in person, or share a template people can fill in if you are virtual.
Invite two or three people to share something from their worksheet, either their answer to the first question or the change they have identified. Keep this brief and voluntary.
Close with a prompt: put today's date on the worksheet and come back to it in a month to see what has changed. That small instruction makes the exercise feel like the beginning of something.
Use Putting Purpose to Work when you want people to turn their thinking about purpose into one concrete change. A short worksheet helps each person name what gives their work meaning, where it shows up, and one thing they will do differently.
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.
