It’s a high-stakes time for business leaders and teams, with fears about COVID-19 sending countless employees scurrying home to work remotely. Leaders need to ensure their teams stay as positive as possible, yet people are feeling disconnected and uneasy.

These days, leadership calls for being able to energize a group of people around a shared vision of success that goes way beyond an organization’s bottom line. Workers are making it clear that it’s no longer enough to do a job just because it brings in a paycheck. (If you’ve ever worked with millennials, you know this is particularly true for them.) Don’t we all want to know that the way we’re spending our precious time on this planet truly matters?

I just got back from leading a three-day retreat on Mt. Tamalpais in beautiful Marin County, CA. As the fog swallowed the peaks and valleys each evening and peeled back slowly each morning, I had the honor of peeking into the inner workings of a leading-tech-company team. Before gathering on our mountain perch, this diverse group of remote workers, who ranged in age from 23 to 60, had never met in person. During our 72 hours together, we had four goals:

With fierce competition for top talent, forward-thinking companies must be intentional about creating their workplace culture. Studies show that 30% of job seekers leave their jobs within the first 90 days citing culture issues. Losing an employee is incredibly costly and disruptive (just ask Uber). When your very own corporate culture is at least partly to blame, it’s time to start thinking hard about the workplace you want to create so your employees—and your business—can thrive.

There are more freelancers and contractors than ever before supporting the traditional 9-5 industry—so many, in fact, that we’ve given this workplace shift an official name: the Gig Economy. It’s no passing fad, with research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that in the U.S. in 2018, 16.5 million people were working in “contingent” or “alternative work arrangements.” The breakdown? Nearly 6 million people held contingent jobs, while 10.6 million folks were independent contractors, on-call workers, filled in as temps, or had signed up with contract firms.

Have you ever witnessed something so amazing it brought tears to your eyes? Put a lump in your throat? Or stopped you dead in your tracks?

You might never have thought about it until now, but that intense physical, emotional and mental response is the emotion of awe.