One of the nice things about writing a blog is that you can see what subjects resonate with your audience. I wrote this piece below about two weeks ago. Did my usual promotion on Twitter. Picked up the usual volume of visitors from our SCORE Chicago web site. Almost any posting gets traffic. Some get more, some get less. This posting got no traffic.
Now, I have a pretty diverse set of followers on Twitter. Thought for sure that I’d get some traffic. But, I guess that people aren’t too interested in fun. Curious, during the glory days of Motorola, there was in the HR world a view that we should at least try to create some fun. Maybe that is one of the reasons that Motorola is not what it used to be… but I think not.
Probably when you are trying to survive, fun seem to not be a priority. Too bad
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3 Tips on Having Fun at Work
In today’s times, sometimes it is difficult to have fun at work. Here are 3 tips to help out.
1. Recognize accomplishment. When something good happens, you get an order, or solve a problem, announce it and celebrate it. When I worked in the cell phone business, when someone, either us or a competitor found a creative way to improve a product, that accomplishment was celebrated. Then in a competitive situation, we challenged ourselves to do better. Caution, don’t let someone else’s accomplishment, turn into accusation.
2. Enjoy being in your working group. Create a regular process of getting together and having a good time. The most successful collaborative efforts create events to enjoy just working together. I worked on a project with a customer, internal people, and suppliers. Every month, we’d get together in another location do a business review and have a nice dinner. One of my colleagues stated that “you can’t be too upset with someone you eat with”. Caution: don’t let the celebration become dominated by one person or group. You don’t want to turn it into a coronation.
3. Announce that one of the goals of the group is to have fun. Just saying it gets you half way there. Caution: if you say it, you need to do it. See points 1 & 2.
Mark E Goodman 
Having Fun at Work
This is more a Titter type posting, than a blog posting. But some one actually clicked on the 3 Tips on having fun at work. I guess there is one person among the viewers of the SCORE blog that wants to know about having fun.