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Want to conduct a free team building exercise that leads to increased creativity, productivity and morale on the job? Try this:
If your office environment is stagnant and unappealing, it could mean that your employees are also suffering from a lack of creative thought when it comes to thinking up new products and services or new ways to address business problems.
Studies show that an appealing and highly diverse work environment lead to increased creativity and productivity at work. Wall art, toys, lighting, and even music facilitates a more dynamic and positively charged work space. Even by placing your office furniture on a diagonal and provide a new perspective at work.
To help you bring out the best in your employees, sponsor a Diversity Desk Game where you charge your team with building the the most unique and diverse office environment possible. You can make this even more fun by having teams compete for creating the most fun and productive work space by examining the team's results within ninety days after they've created their new work space.
The goal of this is to create an environment where people are free to be themselves and also teaches a valuable lesson that there are always different ways to look at situations. Just by sponsoring an office environment change also opens your employees up to new perspectives. And the good news is that this team building exercise can be done with a small budget or even none at all--and it still works!
When I worked in Residential Markets at AT&T in 1985, we constantly decorated our call center to keep everyone's perspective fresh about having to answer the phones and take billing questions day in and day out. A splash of color here, a slinky there and a poster of my favorite rock bands always put a smile on my face even when a customer wanted to argue over a twenty-five cent phone call as if the world was ending tomorrow.
The Diversity Desk Game can do wonders to improve your work environment--try it and let me know what happens!
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