Getting to Know Your Colleagues, A Conversation

In a recent Financial Timesarticle with psychotherapist Esther Perel, she recommended that workplace colleagues ask the following open-ended questions:

• What have you been thinking about lately? What's on your mind?

• Tell me about a time when you changed your mind. What's the best piece of advice you ever received?

• What would you say to your 18-year-old self if you had a chat with them today?

• Have you ever lost a friend? Have you ever rejected a friend?

• Do you work in a language that is not your mother tongue? What is it like to live in translation?

• If there is a choice between remembering and forgetting, do you lean towards the side of forgetting, or the side of the one who remembers it all?

• Were you raised for autonomy, or were you raised for loyalty?

• Was there a moment where you thought, I'm giving up” and tell us whether you did or you didn't?

• What part of your identity was given to you, or what part of your identity was chosen?

In this unique episode, we ask these questions among our agency, with some surprisingly honest answers and insights.