Here are two ideas I’ve implemented lately that have helped me to have more fun at work:
1: Make it personal… for you. What is a unique part of your life that you can share with others? For example, I really enjoy allegories and storytelling. I also enjoy rhymes, wordplay, and phrases with double meanings. So, when I wrote my book, The StorySeller Adventures, I created a way to entertain others the way I entertain myself: with stories, wordplay, rhymes, and phrases with double meanings. What is a unique part of yourself that you can share with others to connect on a more personal level?
2: Make it personal… for clients and teammates. How can you make it a daily habit to learn more about unique parts of your client or teammate’s life? With clients, you could create a simple question or two that you insert into your client consultations and write the answers down in your CRM system. This way you can reference it the next time you talk to the client. For example, you can ask them where they grew up, or how they got into their line of work.
If you’re a team leader, you could have get-togethers with your team over lunch or drinks every now and again to understand a little more about their life, and what motivates them personally and professionally.
So, here’s my ridiculous question of the day:
What can you do today, to make it more personal for yourself and those around you?
