A Daily Dose of Vitamin C

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, it’s essential to nurture the core elements that make your team strong, vibrant, and productive.

At Filament, we’ve developed a set of daily check-in questions we call our “Vitamin C’s” that fuel our team's health, align us on our goals, foster collaboration, and celebrate our achievements.

What Are Our Vitamin C’s?

• Commitment: Being transparent about our priorities helps us focus and also allows the team to understand each other's workload, thereby fostering a sense of shared responsibility.

• Collaboration: Knowing what everyone is working on and how we can support one another lays the foundation for effective teamwork.

• Curiosity: Encouraging a culture of continuous learning and questioning ensures that we’re always growing—both as individuals and as a team.

• Celebration: It’s important for us to recognize and celebrate both our individual and collective achievements. These moments of acknowledgment will reinforce our values and principles, boosting morale.

How It Works:

Each morning, everyone on our team receives a Slack prompt that asks four questions that vary each day. On Monday, we focus on the week ahead. Tuesday through Thursday, we have simpler check-ins. On Friday, we reflect on the week that’s ending.

The responses are visible to the entire team, fostering an environment of openness and shared understanding.

Here are the prompts we use each day:

Monday | The Week Ahead:

• Commitment:  One specific thing I’ll focus on this week that will help me “move my metric” this week is:

• Collaboration:  Some help I may need from others to accomplish this week’s goal is:

• Curiosity:  Something we might add, change, or eliminate in our processes to improve our clients’ experience is: 

• Celebration:  One of our Principles I’d love for us to focus on this week is (and why):

Tuesday | Check-In:  

• Commitment:  An important task I completed yesterday that I’m proud of is:

• Collaboration:  Some help I gave another team member is: 

• Curiosity:  A fun question I’d love to ask all our team members is:

• Celebration: Some positive feedback I’d love to give a team member (or two) is:

Wednesday | Check-In: 

• Commitment:  The progress I’ve made so far this week on moving my metric is:

• Collaboration: One challenge I’d love some help from a team member to solve is: 

• Curiosity:  Something that made me go “hmm…” this week was:

• Celebration: One thing I did this week that is worth celebrating is:

Thursday | Check-In: 

• Commitment:   A priority for tomorrow that will help me to end the week well is:

• Collaboration:  An improvement to one of our team’s tools I’d love to make is: 

• Curiosity:  Something fun, cool, and/or surprising that I learned about a team member this week is:

• Celebration:  One way we might celebrate our clients could be:

Friday | The Week In Review:

• Commitment:  I was successful in accomplishing my weekly one thing that moved my metric in these ways:

• Collaboration:  One way we might collaborate better asynchronously is:

• Curiosity: A surprising thing I learned this week that could be useful for us is: 

• Celebration:  The most rewarding part of my work week was:

By giving us all a snapshot into our team members’ days, these Daily Vitamin C’s have transformed our team’s dynamics.

Give them a try. You might find that creating a daily habit focused on commitment, collaboration, curiosity, and celebration will pay similar dividends to your team.