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.

Tuition vs. Failure

We were facilitating a retreat for a few dozen senior executives when the conversation turned to a bold strategy and the risk it might fail.

That's when the group's new leader said something I've never forgotten:

Let's stop talking about failure. It's a scary word we've been conditioned to avoid all our lives. Let's call it tuition instead.

We should be happy to pay tuition, because lessons are the only way this organization improves.

But I'll be damned if we're going to pay to take the same class twice.

The room understood immediately. They had permission to try things that might not work and an obligation to share what they learned when they didn't.

I've told this story countless times, and I still picture her team opening their meetings with: "So, who wants to share what we learned in class this week?"

What tuition has your organization paid lately?

Last Updated: July 2, 2026