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Bringing the fun into your next executive career move

Networking leads to resume requests. Resumes lead to interviews. Interviews lead to salary negotiations, which lead to evaluations of job benefits, which lead to new positions where you have to watch the balance between your work and your home life.

Where the heck is all the fun in this?

We seem, as a nation, to have forgotten about the value of fun and play in the workplace. No, I’m not talking about standing around the watercooler and re-capping last night’s sitcoms to your co-workers.

I’m talking about honest-to-goodness productive fun. I just checked out this article on the weLEAD website. “weLEAD” stands for “web-enhanced Leadership Education and Development,” and the whole site’s worth checking out, but let’s stick to the fun for a moment, shall we?

It’s far from being a “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” fluff piece (though we you get down to it, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is about as commanding and compelling a statement as Nike’s “Just Do It”). The article contains:

A test to evaluate your workplace seriousness levels

A scientific basis for the usefulness of humor in the workplace

A 13-step process for creating a fun workplace

“31 Ways to Have Fun at Work”

As a manager of executive, you can look at this in three ways:

Use this info to inspire greater productivity with your team
Use this info to inspire a different attitude toward play in the management levels above you
When you go on your next executive job interview, you know they’re going to ask you at the end if you have any questions. Why not ask them what kind of fun they have? Talk to them about how it enhances productivity. It’s a pretty safe bet no one else they’ve interviewed will ask that kind of question, so you’ll definitely stand out in the interviewer’s mind.

Besides, if you’re bored to death in your current management position, why would you leave it just to be bored someplace else?

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