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Having fun in the workplace
Understand that taking 15 minutes to laugh will increase...
1. Understand that taking 15 minutes to laugh will increase productivity, not reduce it. Nothing clears cobwebs more effectively than laughter. If your organization is results-driven, your people will enjoy and benefit from the fun they have at work and will not let the fun interfere with their productivity.
2. Provide a forum for everyone to collect and share their favorite cartoons, jokes, and stories. People connect through shared laughter, wit, and appreciation of irony. Encourage everyone, from the top down, to bring in jokes, cartoons and stories that tickled, or even flabbergasted, them. Encourage people to congregate there as time permits and share a laugh or two.
3. Encourage everyone to take a few minutes to do something uniquely their own to break the tension. A short break from routine can reinvigorate the thought processes. Take short breaks yourself and encourage others to take them. Do whatever helps you to truly disengage from the issue, problem or project at hand. One might listen to his favorite music on headphones, while another walks around the block. Encourage people to share their methods for relieving tension; laugh about the more outrageous ones; enjoy the different ways people find to lighten the atmosphere in which they work. Some might find they enjoy doing some tension-breakers together.
4. Learn to look at the humor in negative situations. Lead the way in making jokes about a difficult situation your company is experiencing. When people can laugh in the midst of a horrendous deadline, make fun of themselves after making a mistake, share the ludicrousness of a bad experience with a very difficult customer, they open themselves up to more creative solutions to those difficult issues and situations. They also clear the way for themselves and others to work on those issues with greater enthusiasm and clarity.
5. Ask for employees' ideas for ways to add fun to the workplace. Don't do all the work of figuring out what would be fun at your workplace--let employees bring their ideas to the table. Consider creating a committee whose job is to dream up ways for bringing fun into the office. Let people use their creativity to raise the level of laughter, and there will be creativity left over for accomplishing job objectives. Everyone--from the CEO and upper management to part-time employees--benefits from laughing on the job. People like to go to work when they can expect to have a good time while doing a good job.