Seeking productive, engaged, happier, and healthier employees?

 

Take a Recess At Work!

Take a recess from:

• Low employee morale
• Decreasing employee engagement
• Lacking creativity and innovation
• Employee turnover issues
• Customer base slipping

Cease from the day-to-day routine for just a bit. Take the opportunity to talk, learn or engage in productive play. It’s all good.

And this means everyone – even the boss!

• Call it Team Building.
• Call it Employee Morale.
• Just make sure you call it fun.

Recess At Work is your opportunity to create team spirit, engage employees, increase morale and share your fun side with the people you spend the majority of your life with. It’s a opportunity to start thinking about new and innovative products and services; perhaps about offering your employees a fun experience that they can turn into a great customer experience.

Holding a Recess At Work could also help improve mental and physical health, which might bring down insurance costs.

Recess at Work should be a part of every corporate Health and Wellness Initiative.

What is Recess?

Recess is a temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit. Kids need it. Courts take it. Everyone needs a recess. Now while any day is a good day to take a break from the norm….Today is the day the whole world should take one together.

So whether you’re a big business or a small business; an entrepreneur or a student…….get out there today. For all you educators, do your part to tackle the Youth Obesity Epidemic plaguing our planet. Here is an opportunity for you and the students to become a bit more active and healthy.

Need ideas?

Can’t come up with any creative ideas? How about one of the following:

• Organize a fun communications activity
• Engage in a creativity exercise
• Create a company time capsule
• Exercise as a group
• Organize some fun learning/training (this can be as cheap as having a member of your team share some knowledge or bringing in a professional to develop your group.)
• Play some good old outdoor games like tag, jump rope, or Frisbee
• Do some volunteer/community work
• Take that team meeting to a coffee shop or an amusement park
• Visit a local park. Play a little, and brainstorm a lot; that next big idea might occur during recess
• Engage your group in a fun team building event
• Take some time today to start learning a foreign language with your co-workers. (You’ll be ready to transfer when your job is outsourced)

The possibilities are endless. Need more ideas? Check out 50 Ways To Have Fun at Work, Improve Employee Morale and Hopefully Not Get Fired.

Here is your mission:

• Enlist volunteers/participants
• Take 30 – 90 minutes today to “Recess” from the usual. Design it as a team Building session.
• Those who do not participate need to be reported to The Big Kid

Rich DiGirolamo, Founder of Recess at Work (http://richdigirolamo.com & http://recessatworkday.com) believes that to keep people engaged loyal and productive you need to create a work environment that is fun. But having fun at work and being a fun place to work are two very different things. He shares this with his clients and works with organizations that are committed to creating a work environment that fosters creativity, originality, productivity and has people showing up “IN” their work, not to work.

Recess At Work is your opportunity to put up or shut up.

However, holding a Recess At Work is only the start. Employers and Employees need to make a longer-term commitment to looking at the issue of employee engagement, morale, health and wellness and how it ultimately impacts productivity and the bottom line – keeping customers engaged.

 

So you work for a Weenie?

What!?!? Your boss won’t let you participate in Recess At Work? Or maybe you are the shy, bashful type and do not know how to suggest participation in this great event? Let us know. We’ll call him/her and be annoying. We know that the last words they want to hear are hopscotch and jump rope. But words like employee morale, employee retention and productivity will get their attention. Free and no cost also usually perk up the ears of some cost conscious employers.

So email their name, email address and phone number to The Big Kid. We promise not to reveal our source. Cross our heart and hope to die. Or just tell the boss they need a course in how fun and games make everyone happier.

Or read this blog entry to be better prepared on how to present the idea.

Do you need more information?

We thought this was a no-brainer!!!! You can work or build morale for one half hour and get paid either way? But just in case you’re still not sure of the benefits………………….. Click here!