Creating an Engaging Workplace Environment

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Creating an Engaging Workplace Environment

• An Employees Guide

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Funometer Assessment
• Steps to Integrating Fun Into the Workplace
• Your Ideas
• Closing

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Video review

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Funometer

• New employees are made to feel welcome.
• Meetings are positive and light.
• We have fun activities at least once a month.
• Its common to hear people laughing around here.
• I can be myself at work.
• We have a lot of celebrations for special events.
• When brainstorming, we like to have fun.
• My boss is usually optimistic and smiling.
• Customers would call us fun to do business with.
• I have a friend at work who makes me laugh.
• We have a good time together.

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Lets Play

• Think funny
• Adopt a playful attitude
• Be the first to laugh
• Laugh with, not at
• Laugh at yourself
• Take work seriously, but not yourself

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Your Role in FUN!!!!

• What should you be doing to ensure you are
  helping to create an engaging environment in the
  workplace?
•  How can you sustain the fun and engagement
  at work on a daily, weekly and monthly basis?
•  What barriers might you encounter when trying to
  create this environment?
•  What is your role in creating and sustaining an
  engaging workplace environment?

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Ten Reasons to Play

• Play is the path to fun and profit.
• "Fun is the new status symbol
• "Non-stop work is for losers
• Even God rested on the 7th day!
•  We need time to be idle.
• Play helps us find our genius.
•  Play is crucial to attaining a work/life
  balance.
• The bow kept forever taut will break. - Zen
  saying
• Play is smart corporate strategy for solving
  problems.
• Play keeps our passions alive in the workplace.

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Fun Strategies

• Fun Ideas

• More Fun Ideas

• Dress for fun
• Fun Decor
• Visit the toy store
• Make meetings funat the start
• Make meetings funduring proceedings
• Make meetings funat the end
• Have a fun library

• Have fun with logos and signs
• Reward funny staff
• Let staff get to know each other
• Fun Contests
• Musical Fun
• Flying Fun
• Encourage staff to show appreciation
• Have a baby pictures contest
• Have a childhood secrets contest.

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Your Plan

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