5 Minute Connections
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Creating, developing and sustaining connections with one another is crucial to our emotional well-being. We are social creatures! Creating connections don’t just happen, they take some effort, just like any good relationship does.
Here are some easy ways to connect with some new, to deepen an existing connection or to renew long-standing relationship.
Where are you from?
Talk about where you are from; this could be where someone grew up or wherever they consider their “home town”. What was the best thing about living there? What was something memorable about your time there? These are great questions to get some insight into someone’s story.
First Job or First Day
Our first jobs usually come with some very notable memories, good or bad. Reminiscing about that job is a fun way to get to know someone a little better. Asking either what someone’s first job was or talk about their first day at TMC? Add on; was there anyone they met during that first job or first day that stands out?
What does this mean to you?
We are unique and see things from different perspectives. This is an activity about learning about someone else’s perspective. Select a picture without words, and talk about what the picture means to each of you. It might be a memory, symbolic or a feeling. There is no correct answer, just learning.
Bucket List What is top on your bucket list?
This is an interesting way to get to know someone beyond their work here at the hospital. Do they want to travel? Start some project? Try something new? Who knows, they might say something that is on your bucket list, in which case now you have a bucket list buddy, or they may give you an idea for your bucket list.
Super Power
We all have a super power, but sometimes we don’t see it. This activity can go a few different ways. You can discuss what super power you would like to have. You can discuss what you believe your super power is; if this is an established connection you might be able to share what you each see as the other’s super power. However it goes, it is focused on learning about someone’s strengths…you may need to tap into that strength at some point!
