Strengthening Connections in the Arctic:
Building a United Team
Objectives
Meaningful Connection
Productive Ideation
Elevated Collaboration
Skill Development
Challenges
Tech
Trust
Time
Attention
- Duration: Sept 2022 - June 2024
- Number of Participants: 70
- Event Type: Virtual Meeting
- Event Format: Monthly Meetings
The Staying Connected initiative aims to enhance connections, collaboration, and open communication among its staff. Its goal is fostering a sense of pride, belonging, well-being, and promoting diversity within a united Arctic Region team. The initiative includes:
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- Neolé facilitates the monthly Huddles and meets every week with the planning committee to design the agenda. We listen to ideas from committee members, share our own ideas, plan logistics and production, design activities, and deliver the Huddle every month.
- Creating opportunities to share “Cool Arctic Work,” highlighting fieldwork, projects, outreach, and Indigenous knowledge.
- Highlighting land claim agreements.
- Holiday celebrations.
- Fun and games!
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We have faced several challenges throughout the two year project:
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- We used Microsoft Teams to host the monthly huddles. Due to government firewalls creating additional blocks, we had to spend significant time troubleshooting to make the experience as smooth as possible.
- Last-minute date changes were inevitable so there were high expectations for flexibility. This led to last minute changes and extra time spent on contingency planning.
- As team members on the planning committee were busy and spent a lot of time in meetings, this limited their mental capacity for additional meetings. However, most committee members enjoyed the huddle planning and cared deeply about the initiative.
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By bringing care, compassion, and creativity to the planning calls, we built trust with the planning team. We addressed feedback and ensured it was incorporated into future Huddles making sure the planning committee members felt heard. The members of Neolé worked well together, maintained good communication with each other and the client, and supported each other.
We successfully enhanced connections, collaboration and communication despite the various challenges.
Through some creativity and effective communication we received a lot of positive feedback about the Huddles. A survey sent out reflected this positive sentiment.
71% of participants said the huddles were great.
Our relationship with planning committee members has strengthened. We created a positive and engaging environment that fostered a sense of belonging and well-being within the Arctic Region Team.
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