Squiggly Shortcut: Small Ways to Make Play Part of Your Team Day
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Hi, I'm Sarah and in this squiggly shortcut I'm going to be talking to you about small ways to make play a part of your team day. Now, caveat before we even get started, what we don't want to do here is create forced fun that everybody dreads. You know, I'm the biggest cynic and most sceptical person when it comes to that. So what we are trying to do here is is to design small pockets of play that feel very low pressure, really easy for everybody to get involved in and in some ways sort of optional.
So people can share what they want to share, but um and not being made to do anything they don't want to do because because nobody likes that. But play is really powerful. It doesn't get talked about that often at work, but I've got a couple of really nice quotes that I wanted to share with you. One doctor, and he also wrote a book, an author of a book called Play, Stuart Brown, says, when we stop playing, we stop developing.
So like playing and learning go hand in hand. And Linda Grattan, who, if you watch lots of our work, you'll know we're a big fan of Linda's work and her book, The Hundred Year Life, she says we are much more likely to love our work when we see it as play. Again, I'm not expecting you to see every day at work as play, but it's, I think it's just this idea of like we can be playful in what we do. And so if you've got a team day coming up or you're spending time together, whether that is virtually, could even be a team meeting or in a room, some ways that you could use play to connect, to get to know each other. and just to have a bit of fun too.
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