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Culture Questions & Activities Playbook

July 09, 20261 min read

Culture Questions & Activities Playbook

Culture isn't built in the big speeches. It's built in the small, repeatable moments where players actually talk to each other, arms linked in a circle, phones down at the dinner table, honest in a text thread. Most teams never create those moments on purpose, so they don't happen at all.

This playbook gives you the structure to make connection a habit instead of an accident. Inside, you'll find Connection Circles, Before-and-After Action Reviews, the 36 Questions that build real trust, and a hidden-rule card game that exposes exactly how your team handles confusion and change.

Three to five minutes, daily or weekly, is all it takes to turn a group of individuals into a team that actually knows each other.


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JP Nerbun

JP Nerbun

J.P. Nerbun is an ICF certified PCC Executive Coach (trained at Georgetown University), Growth Edge Coach, Facilitator, and author of The Culture System.

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