22 | Implementing This With Your Team

Meghan Trevorrow
May 9
3 min read

Updated: Oct 26

Read the lesson.

Welcome back.

Today we’re going to talk about how to empower your team to join you in this.

The first step is simple: Teach them what you’ve learned.

This is the reason for this app.

It’s something you can share with others, invite them to listen in with you,

and be able to talk about one specific lesson each day

or at your own pace!

And that’s how simple mentorship is.

Having a conversation with someone else about a topic, and hearing what they think about it, sharing what you think about it, and discussing your next steps in how you can put that concept into action together.

So, keep it simple.

If you have a team, a family, a company, a business,

simply start with introducing the idea of culture of honor.

But then, let it sink in a bit.

see where it goes at first.

Don’t create rules just yet.

See if the introduction of this language shifts anything.

Because language creates culture.

You can even have everyone tune into these lessons.

But once again don’t just jump straight into application.

Let it sink in a bit. Maybe one or two weeks.

And see what actions/behaviors happen on their own.

Then, I’d bring your team back together again and have a second conversation

where you talk through and articulate what do you want commit to?

Get them clarifying that.

Allow them to define the new normal of the office, or the house, or the company.

I’ve seen teams come out with ideas such as “For the next month,we’re going to start our weekly staff meeting with someone saying one honoring thing about someone else.”

Yes it could feel like a cheezy affirmation circle, but imagine if your son or daughter were on this type of team - with people that practiced really seeing them. Calling what was inside of them out. If done well, with authenticity, this will feel real, and deep and meaningful for everyone involved.

Our own team did this in DC a few months ago.

What we thought was going to be a 2 hour dinner turned into 5 hours and us getting kicked out of the restaurant.

We laughed, we cried. And were surprised at how powerful it was.

Everyone left that dinner feeling honored for WHO they are.

The prompt I used was “Okay when Bill walks into the room, what shifts? And everyone goes around and answers.”

Then I shifted and said, “Okay when Drex walks into the room what shifts?” Everyone answers. and then I want on to say “Okay when Sarah walks into the room what shifts?” and so on and so forth.

Here’s another example:

I’ve had a team commit to writing out their own “who am i” statements

and sharing them with each other over a dinner, or one at a time each week at the beginning of their weekly team meeting.

There’s so many creative ways to implement this in a structured way within your team, family or company.