| While training and observing groups as a
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| | 8. Ring a bell or have a special song to
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| corporate trainer and team builder over
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| | play when something great happens, i.e. a
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| the past few years, I am always amazed at
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| | big sale, make budget, or completion of a
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| how a group of strangers gel and become a
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| | major project.
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| team in a matter of hours. Groups on
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| | 9. Dress up on holidays and special
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| teambuilding retreats can become closer
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| | occasions. Example: Halloween costumes;
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| to each other in one day than some people
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| | if your organization commenced in the
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| do in years of working with each other in
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| | seventies, dress in seventies clothes
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| offices. The major reason I attribute
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| | on the anniversary date.
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| the success of these groups to and the
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| | 10. Turn your mission statement into a
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| way they gel is the use of "fun".Plato
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| | fun statement instead of being boring by
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| said "you can learn more about a person
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| | having employees recite while dancing the
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| in an hour of play than in a year of
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| | Macarena or converting it in to a rhyming
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| conversation." Fun is also a great way
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| | rap to repeat at meetings.
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| to increase employee retention, sales,
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| | 11. Create "secret pals" within the
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| motivate and inspire your employees. Who
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| | office to keep one anther motivated,
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| ever said that "we keep work and play
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| | remember birthdays, and encourage one
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| separated" could not be any more wrong
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| | another.
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| about getting things done. Having fun on
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| | 12. Hang dry erase maker boards around
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| the job makes an organization more
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| | the building. Use them to draw out new
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| successful. So how can your
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| | ideas, make quick signs, put encouraging
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| organization use and implement fun into
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| | statements, and communicate rapidly
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| your culture? Here are fourteen ways to
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| | changing information.
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| manage to have fun at work:1. Orient new
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| | 13. Give weekly creative recognition
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| employees to the office by having them
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| | awards, for example: super phone answer
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| complete a "scavenger hunt". They can
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| | of the week, best new idea the week,
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| meet key people, learn where things are
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| | dressed for success award, the biggest
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| kept, and acquaint them with key
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| | smile of the week; give out silly toys or
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| functions. The new hire must get a
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| | trinkets with the paper award and watch
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| signature or bring something back to get
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| | the smiles and hear the cheers.
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| credit for that scavenger hunt
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| | 14. Try taking your meeting out of the
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| assignment.
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| | the boardroom. Go outside if it's a
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| 2. Have an ugly tie or shoe contest just
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| | pretty day, or meet at a park if
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| to have a few laughs.
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| | possible.Just because management suddenly
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| 3. Put on a fashion show when it is time
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| | thinks that its time to have some fun,
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| to choose new uniforms.
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| | does not necessarily mean that employees
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| 4. Have a company picnic or team
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| | will respond enthusiastically. It is
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| building retreat.
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| | important for a manager to first
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| 5. If asking employees to work late,
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| | establish a convincing rationale for the
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| order pizza to their house for dinner.
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| | benefits of fun at work before asking
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| 6. Keep Nerf foam toys around the office
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| | employees to try something new. These are
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| for "fun breaks".
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| | some basic "fundamentals". Go to my
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| 7. Give out silly and descriptive job
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| | website to submit a question to the
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| titles such as "King of All
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| | trainer, or to learn more about adding
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| Production" or "The Keeper of the Phone
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| | fun to your work place.
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| Lines".
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