Making Work Fun…

It’s always struck me as odd that someone would earn a living at something that didn’t bring them joy as well as cash. Occasionally maybe, but not their whole career…

Years ago, when I was doing the promotional tour for How to Make Work Fun!, more often the not the interviewers would assume that I was American, work-as-fun being, I guess, a ‘not very British’ aspiration. And yet still I meet managers who genuinely want their company, or their projects, to be fun as well as delivering value and making money. They want it to be a both/and.

I’m still interested in the concept because it’s one of those things where everyone thinks they know what they mean, but do they? What does fun mean at work? What does it look like? How would we show it? How would it help?

The answers to those questions will no doubt vary from company to company, and, for me, that’s part of the value. Open up a conversation about work being fun in your organisation and you will open up a passionate discussion which touches on many aspects of being human in modern society, its constraints as well as its freedoms. Or at least that’s my experience!

How would the conversation go in your organisation?

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