the Spark
You bring the energy the day was missing — the joke at seven a.m., the honest belief that this job matters, the reason the crew still likes showing up.
Sound like you?
- You're the first voice in the room in the morning, and the shop is quieter on the days you're off — people say so.
- When a new hire looks lost, you're beside them by coffee break, and by Friday they know everyone's name because of you.
- You'd rather walk over and talk than send a message — the answer takes two minutes and you leave with a story.
- Halfway through a rough week, you're the one saying "we've been through worse" — and you actually believe it.
- You say yes to helping before you've checked your own list, because the ask was right there and the person mattered.
The Spark at work
Working beside a Spark, the day just moves faster — they talk, they laugh, they pull people into the work instead of leaving them at the edges. They're the go-to when morale dips, when a new person needs to feel welcome, or when somebody has to sell the crew on a change nobody asked for. They notice when a teammate has gone quiet, and they do something about it before it becomes a problem. A crew with a Spark holds onto people longer, because the work feels like it belongs to everyone.
Opens more loops than they close, so the crew waits two weeks to see whether an announcement was real.
Not quite you?
The wheel has neighbours — most people sit near a border. Read the ones beside the Spark: