[Imagination Club] Challenge: build a business idea: Executive Playgrounds

[My Arabic Story]

Hello Jeffrery and all, 

I think of this challange all the time. how can we make our workplace more playful? here are some ideas.

 

- play dough! stress goes away when you keep pressing and pressing and soon new shapes come out. the trick is to get dirty and not worry a bit. 

- water slides and a place where someone can simply "float" staring at the sky. if it's a closed playground, the ceiling could be painted in 3d shapes so the trained eye could find new shapes that will inspire, the untrained eye could start its training.

- I've done stress management workshops, and everytime I bring a big box of lego. I don't even have to tell the participants what to do, they get fully immersed in it. I find it a real stress reliever and also people build their dreams in it. 

- lots of paint, spray, finger and brush paints. with many hanging papers of paint spread all over. the idea is not to intimidate the non-artist, but to give him/her a chance to try it out. other execs are to look at paintins, interpret it and try to connect it with problems they have at work, the look of it, the feel of it, the solution to it. a good facilitator is needed. 

- I've got many more ideas but my boss is sitting smiling in front of me while I pretend to work.

 

cheers

Randah Taher

Montreal, QC


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