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ISSUE 591 - July 22, 2015 |
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Why Having an Average Day is Really Awesome! |
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Time for some more random musings and ideas...
- The next time you're frustrated by a colleague's behavior, rather than getting judgmental, be curious. It's a much healthier and solution-oriented approach to become curious and ask yourself, "Why might this person be behaving this way?"
- Sprott School of Business researcher Linda Duxbury suggests that about 10% of employees at the most might be considered chronic jerks or abusers, yet many organizations create restrictive policies that penalize the 90% of employees who never abuse their freedom.
- On a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands with Gap Adventures, Claudine and I noticed how Gap Adventures used every point of contact with us to ramp up the anticipation and excitement about our upcoming trip. Don't forget to help your fellow employees or customers anticipate and get excited about a major event coming up in your business. Happiness research suggests that anticipating positive events can be just as rewarding as the event itself.
- For a more focused meeting, turn your meeting agenda items into questions. "How Can We Trim 10% Off Our Budget Without Hurting Morale?" will encourage participants to start thinking about an issue immediately and will help focus your meeting conversations.
- Remind people how you'd like them to behave at work. The Atlanta Falcons football team posted a sign reading No Energy Vampires Allowed to remind players of their "no complaining" policy during training camp.
- It's Spoonerisms Day, so remember to not pet the sweaty things!
- Rather than always trying to have an AWESOME day, perhaps people should encourage each other to have merely an average day. Aiming for an average day lowers expectations and the pressure for everything to always be 100% perfect and, well, TOTALLY AWESOME! So go on...have an average day! Oh, what the heck, have an average week!
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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Opening meetings with a funny or offbeat question is a simple way to focus attendees' attention on the present, relax participants, encourage conversation, get people to learn something new about each other, and promote lateral thinking. For those reasons and more, it really should become a regular tradition at all your meetings.
So here's one to try. Ask each meeting participant, "Which ability would you rather have?"
A. The ability to become invisible.
B. The ability to fly.
C. The ability to never have to sleep again in your life.
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Quote of the Week |
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"A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?" Bob Hope
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It's a Wacky World |
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Three great uses of wacky humor in business signs:
Queen Anne Hilltop Dental Services in Seattle, Washington posted the following on their electronic billboard: Less painful than an episode of Jersey Shore!
An American car dealership: End Of The World Blow Out Sale! If The World Ends, You Don't Pay...EVER!
And a Perkins Family Restaurant used their advertising space to send a message to one of their employees: Lenny You Need to Come To Work!
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