Week 12
Management Skills: Manage to have fun

� Video�s:

� Southwest airlines

� Outdoor learning and Management Development

� Ideo, �The Deep Dive�

� Humor at Work

� Managing to have fun

Readings on Playfulness, humor in the workplace:

� What benefits were mentioned for specific companies?

� Generalized benefits?

� Integration with video�s?

� Other?

Having fun at work is serious business

Why?

Let�s explore the articles

1.Winning strategies

�C.J. Metcalf

�Atmosphere of caring

�Increases productivity

�Attitudes research

�Health research

�Digital Equipment

2.Out of the shoe box

Question:

How does a company that depends on laughter and humor for its success create an environment that unleashes creativity?

3.Laughing matters

�Brain and laughter

�New discovery?

�Benefits of laughter?

�Chimps, rats and laughter

�Laughter as a signal

�Laughing clubs in India

4.A creative state of mind

Questions:

�Why is innovation SO IMPORTANT to modern companies?

�What happens to our creativity over time, as we grow to adulthood?

�How many people RETAIN their creative edge into adulthood?

�What does the author suggest that we do in this article that seems to fit with the theme that we�re discussing?

5.Want to be a successful manager?

�Stress

�Involving effects

�Creativity is childlike

�Open versus closed systems

�Shortest distance between two people is a smile.�

�Victor Borge

6.A day at innovation U.

Questions:

�What NEW information did you learn about Ideo?

�Reinforcement of prior learning?

What is your current view of playfulness, fun at work?

Did readings, video�s influence your thinking?

Week 12 Management Skills: Manage to have fun

� Video�s:

� Southwest airlines

� Outdoor learning and Management Development

� Ideo, �The Deep Dive�

� Humor at Work

� Managing to have fun

Readings on Playfulness, humor in the workplace:

� What benefits were mentioned for specific companies?

� Generalized benefits?

� Integration with video�s?

� Other?

Managing to have fun

By Matt Weinstein

What GOOD is fun at work?

� What is Weinstein trying to do with this book??

� Let�s brainstorm...

1. Think about the specific people involved

� WHY?

� How does Weinstein illustrate this?

2. Lead by example

� WHY?

� How does Weinstein illustrate this?

3. If you�re not getting personal satisfaction from what you�re doing, it�s not worth doing

� WHY?

� How does Weinstein illustrate this?

4. Change takes time

� WHY?

� How does Weinstein illustrate this?

$40 million questions:

� Could fun add anything to your work climate?

� Could some measure of fun at work really ever be BAD?

What is the DULLEST thing about your job?

Assignment:

� How could you �Fun it up�?

� Discuss with partner for 5 minutes

Which of the 52 �stories� that Matt told most impressed you?

Why?

�I am�� speaking assignment.

� Think of what YOU can do to bring fun to your worldview.

� Think of your own self image and identity.

� Come up with a spoof on what you REALLY are.

� What your heart sings to be!

� Give yourself a new title that gets to the heart of who you are, much like Playfair staffers have done.

� 1-minute speech next time, with 3 steps. Props are GREAT!

� Begin with �I am��

� I am_______ because �

� Thank you.

Week 12
Management Skills: Manage to have fun