In my book Glue, I stress the importance of sharing yourself with your projects—your thoughts, your feelings, your friendship, whatever you’re comfortable sharing with your coworkers that is authentically you. Sharing your unique personality traits with your team is one way to cultivate positive team culture. And those traits don’t have to be just organizational or business related. You can use your unique talents to infuse your team with personality as well.

I love music, poetry, and singing (karaoke, not professionally). I discovered a few years into my career that I could merge those loves with my projects by writing clever jingles about work. The jingles I penned became a creative means to show my pride when my project teams achieved a major milestone. After each jingle was written, I recruited a few willing singers to learn the lyrics so that we could unveil it during a celebratory event. When I couldn’t find willing singers, I paid my nine-year-old daughter two dollars to sing with me.

These jingles are admittedly quirky, but they are uniquely me. And whether or not my coworkers admit that they like them, our jingle performances always garner hearty applause. Your unique talent is likely not jingle writing, but something else. A cartoonist might create avatars of her teammates for a team portrait. A drummer might recruit teammates for a band. A talented ping pong player might organize a ping pong league. An amateur chef might make potlucks a team ritual. Whatever it is that brings you pleasure outside of work, share some of it. You’ll be surprised at the result. And when you look back, you might find that you are as proud of those quirky contributions to your projects as you were about hitting your milestones.