Eliminate Stress .... Add Fun To The Work Place
By Dr Graeme Teague
Having fun with your co-workers is an ideal way to remove stress. It can be done easily so that it doesn’t disrupt work or take time away from work. But adding fun activities can lighten the mood in a stressful time can increase productivity and job performance. Which will lead give you more time, to spare for fun activities.

Many people believe playing practical jokes on people in the office is a fun way to relieve tension. It may relieve your tension but add to the person who is the result of the joke. So steer clear of activities like this because it can lead to many disastrous events and upheavals. A few joke telling sessions are okay, but disrupting a co-workers computer can send someone over the edge if they are also stressed and rundown. So have fun, but make it fun for everyone.

Some activities to try include…

Secret Santa

Choosing names out of a hat and secretly giving someone a gift without them knowing it is you can be rewarding for them and you. Gifts can be serious and appreciative, or fun and exciting. The longer you keep the secret, the better. It doesn’t just have to be kept until Christmas to use these games.

Secret Admirer

This is similar to the Secret Santa, but you can use gifts or notes to a person. Just telling some co-worker they are doing a good job and that you appreciate it can bring a smile to them, and yourself. Having a few quotes that are humorous, a joke or two that you leave in their pigeon hole or desk can just lighten the day. But have fun and be inventive with what you do.

Social Club

This is a must. Even if half of the staff doesn’t want to be involved, do it anyway. You will find others will join as the word spreads.

But collect money, only small amounts and put it into an account for fun activities. It could be a night out, a dinner or various activities.

We go to a place for Laser-Strike. Again a shooting thing, but with lasers. Teams search each other out in a darkened warehouse and shoot with lasers. Fun and exciting, but a physical running around

activity. Mix the teams up, boys versus girls, management versus staff or whatever.

But make it a regular event, but fun oriented rather than just down to the bar for a drink. Introduce the trophy as above, so it can be a sports outing or whatever.

You don’t even have to spend money. A house to house (progressive) dinner, where everyone provides a different dish to eat, can be fun. It is a party on wheels going form house to house. Hire a bus to transport you to remove the drink driving issue.

But think up ideas, put them into a hat and draw one out each week, month or whenever. But aim to have fun, get to know your work mates and colleagues.

The boss will appear more approachable, workers will appear happier. But the workplace will thrive. More enjoyment, more understanding of everyone’s stresses, a collective approach to a lot of work issues. But staff will tend to talk more; issues won’t be swept under the table, but kept in the open and dealt with early.

A fun activity and beneficial for the workplace as a whole. Best of all, something to look forward to at the end of a busy day, week and month.

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Dr Graeme Teague is an expert on stress and the affects it has on health. His unique and fresh views on anxiety, depression and stress are a welcome change. His web site Fast Stress Relief.com is designed to give you all the information and facts on how and why stress affects you, and more importantly simple, proven and natural ways to eliminate anxiety, depression and stress.

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