| Humor at Work |
ISSUE 765 - Mar. 13, 2019 |
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Learning to Be Happy at Work |
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According to LinkedIn’s 2019 Workforce Learning Report, 94% of employees say they would stay at a company longer if it invested in helping them learn! Here are a few fun ways to foster a culture of continuous learning in your workplace:
- Hold regular lunch n' learns and munch n' learns (like lunch n' learns only over coffee breaks, with snacks food that don't crunch too loudly).
- Create topic-specific mentoring programs that connect people across departments and levels.
- Establish a communal library of resources, including the ability to (as some libraries do) "sign out" a person for an hour.
- Form a business/personal development book club.
- Screen a work-related documentary once a quarter.
- Hold a personal development day once a year where employees can teach courses to fellow employees on various topics. Pixar Studios allows employees to take up to four hours a week on courses through their Pixar University. Some courses are related to film-making, others touch on health and various art-related topics. Employees at a U.K. firm can sign up for tree-planting, trapeze and exotic dancing lessons because they
believe these programs encourage more creativity.
- Take advantage of the myriad of e-learning programs available on almost any topic.
- Do what one of my clients does and hold a draw for several front line employees to attend their leadership conference in exotic places, where often employees never get the chance to experience these development opportunities.
- One of the best ways to master a skill is to teach it, so encourage your younger, newer employees to step into training roles whenever possible.
- Take responsibility for your own learning - people who do so report being happier and more fulfilled in their lives!
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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A simple meeting ice breaker or networking question: ask people to share their weirdest, most memorable jobs. In a meeting, you can award a small prize for whoever is deemed to have had the weirdest/most interesting job. (When I've done this in workshops one of the responses I've received on more than one occasion is a "tarantula killer" at a warehouse!)
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Deep Thought of the Week |
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"What if your dog only brings the ball back to you because it thinks you really enjoy throwing it?"
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It's a Wacky World |
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I'm trying to imagine what the job interview must have looked like for this dream job: A hotel in Finland hired a member of staff as a ‘professional sleeper’ to test the comfort of their beds. The individual sleeps in a different one of the hotel beds each night and writes a review about her satisfaction with each bed.
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Are Funny Women at Work Judged Unfairly? An interesting study finding suggests when women use humor at work it can backfire in some situations. Does this sound fair to you? What's your experience? Workplace Humor Can Backfire For Women
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