Comments on: Monday Tip: Workplace fun and games http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/ Make Yourself and Your Business Happy At Work Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bhavani http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-259348 bhavani Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:27:28 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-259348 am conducting fun@work in my work place every Friday.. every week i have to draft a mail and send it across.. it seems to be deficult to host a new game so kindly help me on this behalf… am conducting fun@work in my work place every Friday..
every week i have to draft a mail and send it across..
it seems to be deficult to host a new game so kindly help me on this behalf…

]]> By: Marie http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-243862 Marie Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:08:07 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-243862 At work, we deal with customers face to face all day long, so it is impossible for us to actually get together and do activities during the work day, but it doesn't stop us from having fun. One thing we always have fun doing is playing BINGO. Whoever the team leader is (we rotate this every 2 months), is the number caller, and in the morning passes out 2 bingo cards to everyone. Throughout the day the team leader draws numbers and e-mail them (about 5 at a time) to everyone. Whoever gets BINGO first, get to pick a prize from the prize bag. The prize bag is all stuff that people donate, usually pens, cool post-it notes, $5 gift cards, etc. We also play hangman to raise money for the office fun box. The money from the office fun box is used to buy donuts or bagels for meetings, to buy prizes for the prize bag, things like that. So the team leader will draw a handman on the whiteboard in the break room, and in order to guess a letter, you have to donate to the fun box. We also make sure to get together outside of work. We will go bowling, or play mini golf where our families can come along. It makes everyone closer, and makes the people you work with friends instead of co-workers, and that always makes work more fun. At work, we deal with customers face to face all day long, so it is impossible for us to actually get together and do activities during the work day, but it doesn’t stop us from having fun.

One thing we always have fun doing is playing BINGO. Whoever the team leader is (we rotate this every 2 months), is the number caller, and in the morning passes out 2 bingo cards to everyone. Throughout the day the team leader draws numbers and e-mail them (about 5 at a time) to everyone. Whoever gets BINGO first, get to pick a prize from the prize bag. The prize bag is all stuff that people donate, usually pens, cool post-it notes, $5 gift cards, etc.

We also play hangman to raise money for the office fun box. The money from the office fun box is used to buy donuts or bagels for meetings, to buy prizes for the prize bag, things like that. So the team leader will draw a handman on the whiteboard in the break room, and in order to guess a letter, you have to donate to the fun box.

We also make sure to get together outside of work. We will go bowling, or play mini golf where our families can come along. It makes everyone closer, and makes the people you work with friends instead of co-workers, and that always makes work more fun.

]]> By: Brenda Greika http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-242762 Brenda Greika Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:30:21 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-242762 I have done a "Who Am I?" e-mail contest. I ask office members to write a paragraph about themselves with little-known information. As keeper of the e-mail paragrpahs, I would send them around to everyone (one in teh moring, one in the afternoon for a week-long celebration) to guess who the paragraph was describing. In doing so, we discovered someone in our office had won an Emmy, another ran tobacco sewing machines, one walked on the great wall, another did bare-back trick riding on horses! Who knew? You get the idea. It is a very fun way to get folks to know each other in a more interestingn way than just work. I have done a “Who Am I?” e-mail contest. I ask office members to write a paragraph about themselves with little-known information. As keeper of the e-mail paragrpahs, I would send them around to everyone (one in teh moring, one in the afternoon for a week-long celebration) to guess who the paragraph was describing. In doing so, we discovered someone in our office had won an Emmy, another ran tobacco sewing machines, one walked on the great wall, another did bare-back trick riding on horses! Who knew? You get the idea. It is a very fun way to get folks to know each other in a more interestingn way than just work.

]]> By: Srinivas http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-242411 Srinivas Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:24:17 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-242411 I am conducting fun@work in my work place every Friday.. every week i have to draft a mail and send it across.. it seems to be deficult to host a new game so kindly help me on this behalf... Thank you I am conducting fun@work in my work place every Friday..
every week i have to draft a mail and send it across..
it seems to be deficult to host a new game so kindly help me on this behalf…

Thank you

]]> By: Melinda Vazquez http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-170462 Melinda Vazquez Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:28:57 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-170462 Well you see working as Patient registration and financial services in the Emergency dept, making the workplace fun can be difficult. We have recently changed our work description making it a lot harder to implement fun activities. I have created in the past a Bingo Game, which was based on collections. It made alot of reps hustle to make certain dollar amount collections and actually made them like that part of thier job at the time. It worked really well and alot (but not all) of the employees participated. I was able to also create department based word searches and crossword Puzzles. Well you see working as Patient registration and financial services in the Emergency dept, making the workplace fun can be difficult. We have recently changed our work description making it a lot harder to implement fun activities. I have created in the past a Bingo Game, which was based on collections. It made alot of reps hustle to make certain dollar amount collections and actually made them like that part of thier job at the time. It worked really well and alot (but not all) of the employees participated. I was able to also create department based word searches and crossword Puzzles.

]]> By: Sarah Yeoh http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-103129 Sarah Yeoh Wed, 30 May 2007 23:38:52 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-103129 After taking a day off work I came back to the office to find that I had had several complaints about my desktop wallpaper. (A lovely image of the Jocelyn Wildenstein). When changing the wallpaper I decided to let one of my colleagues choose my desktop wallpaper for the week. Now, each week I'm letting someone else choose my next desktop wallpaper. It seems to have inspired some friendly rivalry amongst the sports fans in the office. :-) After taking a day off work I came back to the office to find that I had had several complaints about my desktop wallpaper. (A lovely image of the Jocelyn Wildenstein). When changing the wallpaper I decided to let one of my colleagues choose my desktop wallpaper for the week. Now, each week I’m letting someone else choose my next desktop wallpaper. It seems to have inspired some friendly rivalry amongst the sports fans in the office. :-)

]]> By: Tom Nixon http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-99258 Tom Nixon Wed, 23 May 2007 17:08:46 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-99258 Alex, you seriously cannot beat a packet of fake moustaches: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nixonmcinnes/sets/72157600011040239/ Alex, you seriously cannot beat a packet of fake moustaches:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nixonmcinnes/sets/72157600011040239/

]]> By: Dennis http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-99182 Dennis Wed, 23 May 2007 13:34:21 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-99182 At our it-helpdesk department there is a team telephone for user support requests. The telephone call can be redirected by a simple key push on each employees personal phone. Now and then we use to play a game which works like this: If a user calls the team telephone, each employee... uhm.. player has to reroute the call as fast as possible to his or her personal telephone and answer it. Every time a player succeeds to answer a call, he/she gets a marker on the public highscore (usually a big whiteboard). At the end of a day or at the end of a week the highscore will be reset. This is quite funny, and I never saw people answering phone calls with such an enthusiasm and fun. A nice sideffect is, that in the moment in wich the employee wins the call, he/she is usually so happy about it that he's also very kind when greating the caller. At our it-helpdesk department there is a team telephone for user support requests. The telephone call can be redirected by a simple key push on each employees personal phone. Now and then we use to play a game which works like this:

If a user calls the team telephone, each employee… uhm.. player has to reroute the call as fast as possible to his or her personal telephone and answer it. Every time a player succeeds to answer a call, he/she gets a marker on the public highscore (usually a big whiteboard). At the end of a day or at the end of a week the highscore will be reset.

This is quite funny, and I never saw people answering phone calls with such an enthusiasm and fun. A nice sideffect is, that in the moment in wich the employee wins the call, he/she is usually so happy about it that he’s also very kind when greating the caller.

]]> By: Alexander http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-99120 Alexander Wed, 23 May 2007 09:11:20 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-99120 Alper: Wii tennis - why didn't I think of that :o) Jason: Funny hat day - that's a great idea. Do you think clown nose day might work too..? Alper: Wii tennis – why didn’t I think of that :o)

Jason: Funny hat day – that’s a great idea. Do you think clown nose day might work too..?

]]> By: Jason of "Kim & Jason" http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-98295 Jason of "Kim & Jason" Mon, 21 May 2007 16:55:23 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/05/monday-tip-workplace-fun-and-games/#comment-98295 We have had funny hat day. Everyone comes to staff meeting in a funny hat. Believe me, it's pretty hard NOT to have fun or take ourselves too seriously. We have had funny hat day. Everyone comes to staff meeting in a funny hat. Believe me, it’s pretty hard NOT to have fun or take ourselves too seriously.

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