10 WAYS TO HAVE FUN AT WORK WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK
10 WAYS TO HAVE FUN AT WORK WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK
Give your people a break every now and again – lighten the load – take your eye OFF the bottom line for one hour a month and see what happens. You could be surprised.
Meetings and happy hours are the ideal place to introduce something fun and/or unusual:
1.Make one of your regular meetings a FUN only meeting – each team member has to bring a funny story or a joke – have a small prize for the funniest.
2.Have an icebreaker at the beginning of meetings – something like – ask each person to write one thing about themselves that no-one in the team knows – put all the entries into a hat – pull them out one by one – people have to guess who did what.
Happy hours:
3.Liven up your monthly happy hour by showing a 10 – 15minute John Cleese video or other funny clip.
4. Invite a motivational speaker to a happy hour every now and again
5.Make one of your happy hours a sing-along – each team to sing a song!
6.Have a game of Pictionary
7.Have a quiz night
8.Funniest hat night
9.Most original outfit made out of paper, cellotape and paper clips night
10.Take EVERYONE offsite once a year for a whole day. Shut down the office. Put phones over the answer service and go somewhere…the beach, the countryside, the movies whatever. DON’T TALK ABOUT WORK.
I promise you, your people need a break and the very best way to destress is to LAUGH.
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Does fun add to the bottom line? Maybe, maybe not. Do tired, stressed, unmotivated staff do anything for your bottom line? Absolutely not.
Give your people a break every now and again – lighten the load – take your eye OFF the bottom line for one hour a month and see what happens. You could be surprised.
Meetings and happy hours are the ideal place to introduce something fun and/or unusual:
1.Make one of your regular meetings a FUN only meeting – each team member has to bring a funny story or a joke – have a small prize for the funniest.
2.Have an icebreaker at the beginning of meetings – something like – ask each person to write one thing about themselves that no-one in the team knows – put all the entries into a hat – pull them out one by one – people have to guess who did what.
Happy hours:
3.Liven up your monthly happy hour by showing a 10 – 15minute John Cleese video or other funny clip.
4. Invite a motivational speaker to a happy hour every now and again
5.Make one of your happy hours a sing-along – each team to sing a song!
6.Have a game of Pictionary
7.Have a quiz night
8.Funniest hat night
9.Most original outfit made out of paper, cellotape and paper clips night
10.Take EVERYONE offsite once a year for a whole day. Shut down the office. Put phones over the answer service and go somewhere…the beach, the countryside, the movies whatever. DON’T TALK ABOUT WORK.
I promise you, your people need a break and the very best way to destress is to LAUGH.
10 WAYS TO HAVE FUN AT WORK WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK - To learn more about this author, visit Ann Andrews's Website.
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