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Leading-edge organizations have discovered that fun, both as a value in the corporate culture and as a set of behaviors in daily practice, can translate into bottom line success. By harnessing the power of fun, companies find they can better retain employees and customers, motivate teams, improve productivity, increase innovation, and create a sense of community.
Fun Works details precisely how eleven successful companies - including Southwest Airlines, Pike Place Fish, Isle of Capri Casinos, Employease, and Prudential - have integrated fun into the normal course of business, and shows how this has translated into improved results across the board. Drawing on these success stories, Fun Works illustrates the eleven principles of the Fun/Work FusionTM. From capitalizing on the spontaneous to hiring good people and getting out of their way, these principles will inspire you to inject a sense of playfulness and joy into your workday.
Disposing of the myth that fun and work are mutually exclusive, Fun Works will motivate you to unleash the power of fun in your workplace. Fun Works shares real-life examples, strategies, ideas, resources, tools, tips, and techniques that will help any company in any industry become a place where people love to work.
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Celebrate: How American Skandia praised their way to being a market leader
There is nothing more fun than the celebration of success or a shared win. Recognition of success is not enough; we must also celebrate it. What gets recognized gets repeated; what gets celebrated becomes habit.<.br> If we are going to successfully integrate fun and work, then the celebration of success must also be integrated into the fabric of work. We know that individuals require praise and recognition. We are learning that celebration generates additional energy for future endeavors, that it fuels high performance and increases the opportunity for, and likelihood of, even more success.
American Skandia, a manufacturer and wholesaler of insurance and financial planning products and services to brokers and financial planners, takes great pains to make the effort to catch and compliment people doing something right. "We celebrate everything," says Terry Martinsky, Senior Service Manager for the Northeast Team. "We take our members to baseball games. If we're going to work late, we order in and make it a party. Or we go to dinner afterward as a group. We have a holiday tree that reminds of the upcoming holiday and makes us think about our own particular plans to celebrate it.
"We subscribe to Dalbar, an industry ranking system for customer service similar to J. D. Power. When a team member is awarded a Dalbar he or she receives a plaque and a check for $500 and the entire team goes to dinner to celebrate. We also have a monthly STAR award for customer service and the winning individual receives $100 and the entire team gets $500 toward a group dinner."
The principles for the celebration of success are the same as those for integrating fun and work: give permission; challenge your biases; be spontaneous; value diversity; trust the process; be authentic; expand the boundaries; be choiceful; embrace expansive thinking and risk taking. Follow these principles to infuse your work with both planned and spontaneous celebration.
Start simply. When a group does something significant, celebrate the accomplishment before moving on. Make the effort to catch and compliment people doing something right. Look for opportunities to celebrate and then seize the moment with celebration.
When employees celebrate individual and group success, more success is the result. Don't shy away, celebrate; dance to the music.
NEXT PRINCIPLE - #1: Give Permission to Perform. How Pike Place Fish became World Famous by encouraging individuals to have fun at work.
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