| Inspiring Workplaces |
ISSUE 985 - Aug. 16, 2023 |
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Stick Together to Ramp Up Your Motivation |
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Are we all in this together...alone?
According to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, emphasizing the word "together" can have an enormous impact on motivation levels. When people in the study heard that they would be working on something "together" and could ask for help from other people vs. another group who were told they'd be working on the same task but alone, the people who heard the word "together":
- Solved problems better
- Worked almost 50% longer on the task
- Found it easier to stick to the task at hand
- Found the task more interesting and were more likely to want to repeat doing it
Now here's the fascinating part: The more motivated people didn't even actually work together! But just hearing the word "together" ramped up their intrinsic motivation to complete the task and do a better job.
As the brilliant Stephen Hawking once said, “Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” Wait, that's not very positive. Here's a slightly less cheeky one by Matthew Woodring Stover, "If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that!?”
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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Create a fun customer service recovery kit: A fun "we're sorry" bag you can use when a customer experience goes awry that you can give your customers as a way of making amends and apologizing in a fun way.
Yes, how you make things right will vary from customer to customer, so you may likely need to do something on top of this, but having a kit with some fun items and a fun "We Goofed Up" apology card ready to go can be an easy, memorable, and fun way to start the process of making amends.
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Quote of the Week |
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“Imagine if we measured success by the amount of safety that people felt in our presence.” Johnathan Louis Dent
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Funny Business |
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As seen on a sign at a community recreation center:
THE POOL IS CURRENTLY NOT OPEN BECAUSE IT IS CLOSED
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