“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

Richard Branson, Virgin Airways

Fun, joy, and happiness are universal concepts. An act of joy, fun, or playfulness extended to another will span generations, cultural differences, gender, and language. The simple act of a smile can bridge all divisions.

Not everyone experiences or expresses joy and fun in the same way. Fun is not nor should it be, one-size-fits-all. The wider the diversity, the more ways in which fun will occur, the more opportunities for everyone to experience it.

• FunMobility in Pleasanton, California pays for lunch for first-time lunch partners. The cost of the meals is worth the value of having staff members get to know each other. And it’s fun for both of them.
• At holiday time, create a progressive party where people go from department to department for different courses or food or activities. The department with the best decorations and/or food wins a prize. This should be planned by teams over a period of time to create excitement, anticipation, and ownership.
• “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” Richard Branson, Virgin Airways
• Fun is for sharing. The moment you exclude another from the fun, it stops being fun.
• The more the merrier is the best attitude to adopt.

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,

and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Goethe