Creating Rituals, Establishing Connections, Building Teams.

Hello KSKOers

Have you ever noticed how the smallest routines can quietly hold a team together? A shared coffee break, a standing Friday chat, even a run to the local chippy. These simple moments aren’t just habits, they’re rituals that create rhythm, connection, and belonging. This week, “Chippy Tuesday” got me thinking about the power of these everyday behaviours, how they shape culture, build trust, and keep us feeling part of something bigger, even when we’re working apart. Grab a coffee (or a bag of chips!) and join me in exploring how rituals, big and small, can help us build stronger, more human teams.

Looking forward to joining you on your learning journey!

Chippy Tuesday got me thinking.

My husband has a small team and over time, they’ve established rituals that, regardless of what they’re doing and where they are, they come together to join in. On Tuesday, they get chips from the chippy – hence Chippy Tuesday. On Fridays, they have something from the kebab shop. At 10.30am most days they stop for coffee. And yes, on reflection, everything does revolve around food, but that’s their thing!! Being that food is recognised as a primary brain reward, when someone makes you a coffee or it’s someone else’s turn to pop to the chippy, a foodie-interlude is a pretty nice way to connect.

This got me thinking about rituals and how different organisations and teams instigate and implement different kinds of rituals. How remote, hybrid and on-site teams establish rituals will be quite different.

It’s interesting how we create a sense of team. It’s both in the behaviour we encourage and in the rituals we establish. When I spoke with culture expert Chris Dyer in episode 55 of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast, one thing he said really stuck with me: “The biggest place where culture occurs is in meetings.” And of course, there are ‘meetings’ and then there are simply instances where we meet up!

Meetings can be the formal work situations which we’ve created, but meet up happens over the dinner table, in the kitchen at coffee time and even in the smoking area when people go on their breaks. Meetings and meeting up are same same but different. They create opportunities for team cohesion, inter-personal connection, new relationships and………