Help establish culture of Team DiggingWinning

I’ve been on holiday for a week, to Egypt. Basically a week of doing completely nothing, something that I am not that good at. It is tough for me to completely disconnect. I still responded to messages of work.. but half-way in I decided that this week was for me and my family and that work can have all my attention again once holiday is over.Even though it is holiday, in an all-inclusive hotel you still have a schedule. A food schedule basically, breakfast in the morning, lunch in afternoon and dinner in night, you live towards it. I feel like it wasn’t the best place to disconnect and think, I at least wasn’t really able to do so. But while I am on the plane currently, all of a sudden a lot more thoughts and ideas start to flow in. Thinking about the direction I am heading, what is important to me, what is going well and what can go even better.

Culture is the foundation

One of the things that really stood out to me is the culture of Team DiggingWinning. I personally think, looking at Discord for example, we have quite a special ambience. Cultures do not get the attention it deserves in most businesses and communities. The culture is actually everything. It is the foundation, the compass. You and me, we all play a part in that. Me showing emotions on stream, the process; of first getting frustrated at every little thing and now getting better and better at handling situations, calling out people’s bs, removing toxic people. You engaging in a positive way on content, helping others out in chat and in discord, you sharing your experiences in your blog in discord. I think we are doing a good job and I am proud of it. But there is always room for improvement and to be able to maintain the culture I think it is important to make clear what our culture is to ourselves and the outside.Having said that, I would like to work as a community even more than we are already doing. I would like to get more input, give you the opportunity to let teamDW know what matters to you, so we can all flourish. The coming week I will be composing a questionnaire, which should help composing our mission statement. My next blog update will then also be my version of the questionnaire so you have an idea what to look for. I would love to hear what you think of this idea!

Community conference calls

This mission statement will not be a one-time thing, I would like to do a community conference call once a month or something, to give you the chance to ask questions, give feedback etcetera. I also noticed that even though strategy and such can be discussed in the discord channels, there is still the urge for calls. I would like to help you with facilitating that, doing a team study session every week. These are just ideas I have in mind to enhance what we have already build. It is important that it aligns with our mission statement, it will need to be reviewed along the way and amendments are likely to be made.Anyway, I would like to thank you all once more for being part of this community and your effort to help build it. I am super excited about the direction we are going and pumped to be back grinding it out with you all again Monday morning.

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