The Game of Work

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REFLECTION / ANALYSIS: What were the company’s best decisions during the pandemic, and what were the bad ones? Why? The good thing about Psych!, is that while inventing wild answers and voting on your favourites, you’re actually learning a lot about your colleagues. 5 – Two Truths and a Lie Another seasonal little game, but one that can make your office look super spooky for Halloween – while providing lots of fun in the run up. The Game of Work is a powerful, yet simple book that can transform any team to work with the same passion with which we play. When people work like they play, the results tend to exceed expectations. It is just human nature! On a hot day when the air conditioning goes off, employees can start complaining that it’s too hot to work. But after work in the parking lot, where it is twenty degrees hotter, they will look at each other say, “Well, what do you think, golf or tennis?” Why will people, in recreation, pay for the privilege of working harder than they will work when they are paid?

The reason we believe organising a challenge between other businesses works so well, is because it can really encourage that team spirit and make your teams even closer to each other than before. It encourages a healthy mindset of working together to beat a common ‘enemy’ – and anybody who doesn’t want to play will enjoy spectating and cheering their own team on. 21 – Ping Pong Change your financial life . . . anyone on any income can become debt-free and achieve financial independence by applying the principles from this book. These games are perfect for helping new colleagues – or even old colleagues! – to get to know each other better. They’re fun, light-hearted, and your employees will come away feeling like they’ve learned something about their co-workers. These work games are mostly very easy to adapt to a remote working environment, too. 1 – Guess That Baby ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Review high potential pipelines and match selection attributes against today’s reality. Do they need to be updated?

Designing the game of work can draw on the discipline of videogame development. Companies must recruit and retain talent through incentives that reward and shape career progression. They must capture employees’ attention and provide the suspension of disbelief that the organization is the best place to spend a sizeable portion of their adult life, thus empowering the team to work cohesively on collective goals while attempting to hit goals, fulfill objectives and make a healthy profit. Gallwey concluded that SELF-1 was a from of interference that led to nothing else than an underutilization of the person's potential. In other words: Performance = Potential - Interference. In still other words: don't let SELF-1 distract you from your task and goal! When leaders in companies can embrace the Motivation of Recreation that produces such natural highs of engagement, enthusiasm, and energy, and bring it to their area of responsibility, then results will be there with the twenty-somethings, as well as with those in the twilight of their careers.

TALENT SCOUTS: Ask teams to identify the most results-driven outlier personality types in the organization and see if they’re on the high-potential list. If not, get them onto it. The recipe for successful performance is to disable pressure on ourselves, but we can't just disable our negative thinking. Next, I read the The Inner Game of Golf. Although it too was helpful and provided some insights, it was clear that the author was less comfortable in the context of golf rather than tennis. It was also clear that the "inner game" method, as it applied to golf, was less rigorously tested. Perhaps a panel of judges could review the entries and give out prizes for the winners? What are your favourite games to play at work?Remember that as well as buying the ping pong table, you’ll need to keep your staff supplied with plenty of bats and balls. These can break, so make sure you have plenty spare. 22 – Run-Around (ping pong variation) In a game of Werewolves, players are secretly assigned roles. The werewolves must attempt to convince the villagers that they are innocent, while the villagers must attempt to lynch the secret werewolves amongst them. A groundbreaking guide to overcoming the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on the job—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!