Questions for Connection 1 of 2

Hey, it’s Jackson, back with another video, and this one is particularly designed to cultivate connection amongst teams. Now, when you look at sports athletes, when you think about Special Forces and elite military operations, and then even high-performance business teams, a common theme is they have this strong connection and trust and internal rapport with one another that creates the foundation and dynamic for good teamwork. So, I have a series of questions for you. This video is part one of two, so please do watch them in order. Again, this is part one, and I’m going to go ahead and show you a set of questions we have here.

So, what I want you to do is get into pairs, and ideally, you will take 15 minutes and go through these one by one. So, each partner will ask a question, and the other answers it. Then, for that same question, the other person asks, and you answer, right? So, each partner is answering each question, and you’re going to go through this for 15 minutes. Now, if you don’t have 15 minutes, all you’re going to do is scale down however much time you have and just try to scale it in proportion. So, if it’s supposed to be 15 minutes and you only have 10 minutes, then try to do about 2/3 of the questions, which would be eight of them. If you only have five minutes, that would be a third of the questions, so just try to do four of them, right? I don’t really care which ones you pick. You can go in order or pick ones that jump out to you.

Okay, so I’ll review each of these very quickly. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want for a dinner guest? Would you like to be famous? In what way? What would constitute a perfect day for you? When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else? Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common—that’s your partner in this exercise. For what in your life do you feel most grateful? If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be? Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it? What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? What is your most treasured memory, and what is your most terrible memory?

So again, break into pairs, take 15 minutes or scale down to however much time you have, go through these one by one with one another, and that’s all for now.