| Humor at Work |
ISSUE 670 - Mar. 15, 2017 |
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Turning Workplace Values Into Action |
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Actions speak louder than words and talk is cheap! Here are 3Ms to help ensure your workplace values are more than empty platitudes and that they actually mean something:
1. Meaningful. Make your values meaningful by translating your values into specific, observable behaviors and actions. Share example after example of your values in action so employees know what they mean, turn your values into stories, or create fun videos to bring them to life. The international design company IDEO held a team contest where teams around the globe had to create fun videos to bring one of their seven core values to life. An American retailer holds an
annual contest and awards prizes for the employees or teams whose costumes best capture the spirit of one of their values. The Danish outdoor advertising company AFA JCDecaux held a values blitz, where every employee was required to live one of their four core values in an outrageously loud way for a week at a time - cycling through one value per week for six months. After the six months they had completely transformed their workplace culture because they had made the values meaningful to
everyone.
2. Model. Ensure everyone models the values. As Elvis once said, “Values are like fingerprints, you leave ‘em all over the place.” Your workplace values should be so obvious that after a few months you should be able to ask new employees what values are most important in your workplace. Hold everyone accountable for your values - treat your values like lines in the sand that will never be crossed or don't bother having any!
3. Measure. Assess how well you're stacking up against your values - at a company-wide, team, and individual level. Tie all workplace perks, recognition efforts, and reward programs to your values.
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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Today is official "True Confessions Day" so try this "getting to know you better" exercise based on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (click here to watch a sample): Participants must read a "true confession" from one of two envelopes. One envelope contains a very short description of an actual real life event the person experienced, the other contains a fictitious one. The
"perp" must read one of the two randomly selected stories and the rest of the group (you can do it as a threesome or as an entire team) then gets one minute to interrogate the person with questions to assess whether or not he/she is telling the truth.  |
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Quote of the Week |
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“Meetings should be like an episode of Friends: You know how they’re going to end when they start. When people come in knowing what 30 minutes of their time is going to accomplish, they galvanize around the mission.” Brad Soulas, Creative Director
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It's a Wacky World |
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We may never know if a Miami lawyer was lying at the time, but yes, due to a faulty e-cigarette battery his pants actually caught on fire while he was delivering his closing arguments!
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