Here’s a list of some of the theme days and observances for August, 2025. Celebrating these, recognizing these theme days is a very simple way to bring a little fun and humor into your workplace and create some rituals and traditions to help strengthen your workplace culture. For some ideas on how to make use…
READ MOREHere are a few fun at work ideas that lend themselves nicely to the quieter pace (for some of you at least) of summer:
READ MOREA study from Harvard Business School once again highlighted the notion that there are more powerful motivators at work than money. In this particular study, researchers found that salespeople would forgo financial incentives in favor of greater peer recognition and knowing where they stood compared to their peer group. Social recognition, in other words, trumped…
READ MORE“You can tell whether a person is clever by their answers. You can tell whether they are wise by their questions.” Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz Asking just the right question isn’t always an easy thing to do, but finding the right question is akin to finding a lost key to a hidden door.…
READ MOREAs a business speaker and motivational speaker who speaks often on the topic of humor in the workplace, I sometimes have to sell the benefits of humor to some of my more skeptical clients. Fortunately, this task has become much easier over the years.
READ MOREI recently had someone ask me about the “appropriateness” of celebrating some of the offbeat theme days I refer to from time to time in an office setting.
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