Life is made up of weekdays - let's make the most of them. Here's a vitamin boost for those who want to take their work to the next level.
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Most work eight hours a day. Of course, we want to make those days as fun as possible, to the extent that we can influence them, of course. Often we get further than we think with little effort, and just by being aware, we have come a long way.
Petter Stordalen, a well-known hotel industry executive, has written a book about loving Mondays. Mondays are duty, Fridays are freedom. Mondays are weekdays, weekends are exceptions. Don't love the exception, love the weekdays, is his message. We agree, and we also believe that everyone can love Mondays.
Mondays represent real life and therefore any improvement in your everyday life will be an improvement in your whole life. But how do you do it?
Here are our 14 tips for having fun at work
- Look for solutions.
- Don't whine. Whining is contagious like colds.
- Use humour. Show funny Youtube clips or interesting TED talks, invite lecturers, tell them about something weird that happened to you. Joke about what went wrong.
- Offer yourself and your shortcomings. When you invite yourself, you show yourself and others that you have a humble approach to life and that you don't take yourself too seriously.
- Work together, not just at the same time.
- Raise your colleagues in front of customers as well as within the team.
- Prioritise tasks so that you also prioritise the team.
- Have a clear goal and clear roles.
- Avoid strong negative words. Soften with more neutral words.
- Naivety is good. Those who are not naive will not dare to develop something new.
- Realize that you can and should question and challenge your own thoughts.
- If you have been dealing with a problem in the same way without making any progress - try a new approach. Do the opposite and see what happens!
- Do you have a lot of dead time at work? Use the time for a work project that you normally don't have time for. Study, plan or clean. Take a nap. Read a book.
- Use a smart and fun service like Teamr to improve team spirit and efficiency.