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Having Fun Leads to Success!
By Jeremy Henderson | February 10th, 2012
By Guest Blogger and Sr. Client Partner Tina Tuma
Dale Carnegie once said, “ People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing” I don’t think that quote could be more appropriate to what working as a consultant with great people for great companies is all about.
We have the opportunity every day to help ourselves and our clients succeed both personally and professionally. How we do this depends greatly on our work/life balance.
For example, our team recently worked to put together a presentation for one of our clients. We held meetings, we wrote, we discussed and we revised until we had come the realization that it was Saturday afternoon already and we were a little more than brain dead, out of juice and creativity.
At that particular moment, we stopped and said to each other – we need to take time to break for the weekend, go have some fun to rejuvenate our creative senses and come back renewed on Monday so that we will have more energy and creativity to complete the presentation.
You may be asking, wouldn’t it have been better just to plow through the presentation and get it done instead of breaking for the weekend? It may have and in some cases it may be necessary to plow through. But by taking that break and doing the other things we enjoy, we were able to come back to the table renewed and refreshed with even better ideas.
Our belief and the things that we as a team constantly strive to maintain is that when our team is happy and having fun at what we are doing, we are succeeding and in turn better able to help our clients build happy, healthy and productive workplaces.
Tina Tuma is a senior client partner at Jungle Red Communication, a corporate human relations consulting firm. She focuses on helping clients build happy, healthy, productive workplaces that deliver tangible business results through internal communication, leadership, decision making and corporate social structures. You can reach our team at www.JungleRedCommunication.com.
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February 29th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
If there is one thing about sergntth & conditioning that isn’t taught in textbook, it’s the art of motivation. There is nothing like being in the training trenches and learning how to communicate, how to motivate and inspire athletes. Couldn’t agree more with you Mike.Keep up the great job!I enjoy visiting your blog.