The morning brew social is a ritual that can increase social connection between you and your remote or hybrid teammates. It is a recurring 15 minute meeting where you invite your direct reports to discuss anything but work. The purpose is connection.

📍 Morning Ritual Pro tips

• Make it a ritual! Host every other week on the same day and at the same time - weekly, monthly, quarterly.
• Invite your direct reports.
• Book the calendar invite for 15 minutes only. The shorter time commitment will make it easier for your people to consistently attend.
• Always end on time. This way your team knows the meeting won’t creep into a longer time.
• Ensure your team knows the purpose of this meeting is social (i.e. no need to prep work). Add the purpose “Talking about anything but work!” to the calendar invite.
• Make notes of important topics that come up (i.e. birthday, spouse’s name, pets) so you can follow up or celebrate your people in a personalized way.

📖 Ritual Agenda

1. Share the question beforehand in Slack/Teams so your introverts and think-to-talkers have time to prepare
2. Post the question in the chat of your meeting so it's visible
3. As soon as enough folks have joined, pick someone to answer the question and select the next person to answer
4. Enjoy getting to know one another!

🖊️ Sample Questions

Sometimes folks will bring topics they want to discuss. If not – feel free to pepper in one of these! Or check out these funny icebreaker questions or these fun ones.

• Does anyone have any pets? What kind and what are their names?
• If you could have one superpower – what would it be?
• Does anyone have an unusual talent to share?
• Has anyone try a good recipe lately?
• What’s the most binge worthy TV show?
• Has anyone read a good book lately?
• What is your guilty pleasure TV show?

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