Creating a Playful Workplace

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Creating a Playful Workplace Interactivity
2008 Saturday April 26 9 am to 10 am
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The Business Reasons for Play!
The Question Why are we in business?
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The Business Reasons for Play!

• The Answer
• TO BE SUCCESSFUL!
• Make money
• Be leaders

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The Business Reasons for Play!

• Strategies
• Keep existing clients
• Get new clients
• Keep great talent
• Get new talent

Why are we in business? SUCCESS
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The Business Reasons for Play!

• Tactics
• Create brand recognition
• Showcase products services
• Engage connect with clients and talent

• Strategies
• Keep existing clients
• Get new clients
• Keep great talent
• Get new talent

Why are we in business? SUCCESS
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The Business Reasons for Play!
SUCCESS

• Strategies
• Keep existing clients
• Get new clients
• Keep great talent
• Get new talent

• Tactics
• Create brand recognition
• Showcase products
• services
• Engage connect with clients and talent

PLAY!
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The Business Reasons for Play!
PLAY!
SUCCESS
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Creating a Culture of Play!
Culture The predominating attitudes and
behavior that characterize the functioning of a
group or organization
PLAY!
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Creating a Culture of Play!

• To create attitudes and behaviors that
  characterize your organization, you must
  penetrate
• Program
• People
• Process

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Creating a Playful workplace!

• Program
• People
• Process

Rusty George, Rusty George Creative
Stuart Young, Architects BCRA
Tanya Andrews, Childrens Museum of Tacoma
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Architecture
Civil Structural Engineering
Development Services
Interior Design
Building Science
Strategic Marketing
Graphic Design
Land Use Planning
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• .we need to focus education on constantly
  developing our students right brain skills -
  such as forging relationships rather than
  executing transactions
• Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind

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• In order to attract and retain creative talent,
  BCRA has incorporated various forms of play to
  reinforce our culture.

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Playing to Learn
Each April, BCRA renews habits on the three Rs,
sustainability education, and environmentally
consciences living.
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Playing to Communicate
Studio and department outings give our teams a
chance to bond outside of the office.
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Playing to Celebrate
Holidays, birthdays, babies, weddings you name,
we celebrate it.
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Playing to Acknowledge
We bring the staff back to staff meeting.
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Playing to Relax
Our annual Christmas party and company picnic
give us some much needed relaxation and
celebration.
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Playing to Contribute
Community support is always accompanied by
laughter and fun.
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Playing to Sell
Our personality comes alive at on-site marketing
events.
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How can you play at work?

• Construction for a Cause
• Childrens Museum Auction Playhouse
• Habitat for Humanity
• Park improvement work party
• Workstation Vacation Sabotage
• Get Creative with Fundraising
• Indoor put-put golf tournaments
• Dessert Auctions
• Vertical Feet Ski Relay
• Babies on Parade
• 12 pounds of Christmas
• Singles Calendar
• Camping Parties
• Studio Outings
• Ropes courses
• Spa day
• 4-wheeler adventures
• Photoshop Wars

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What would it take to make this the best place
weve worked?
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What would it take to make this the best place
weve worked?
LIVE I want to work to live, not live to work.
How does the Museum fit in with my
life? WORK What kinds of things do I need to feel
successful and appreciated at work? PLAY I spend
a majority of my day at the Museum and with my
colleagues, seeing them more each day than I do
my own husband. Shouldnt it be fun?
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Live Work Play Process

• Team brainstorming and Input
• Categorize around tangible and intangiblewhat
  can we see versus what we can feel
• Prioritization

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Live Work Play Process

• Team brainstorming and Input
• Categorize around tangible and intangiblewhat
  can we see versus what we can feel
• Prioritization
• 4. Baseline measurements of satisfaction

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Live Work Play Process

• Team brainstorming and Input
• Categorize around tangible and intangible
• Prioritization
• Baseline measurements of satisfaction
• Suggest action for areas below baseline of
  satisfaction
• Recruit Live Work Play Committee
• Implement suggestions and make regular report at
  Staff meetings
• Revisit baselines and set new priorities through
  performance review process

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Track Your Success!

• Intangibles
• Honesty about family obligations, compassionate
  response
• Define office norms and expected personality
  traits
• Stress communication to help with solution
  seeking

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Track Your Success!

• Tangible
• Margarita machine
• Book club and readings at staff meeting
• New workplan and performance review process
• Compensation standards begun

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Contact Us!

• Tanya Andrews, Childrens Museum of Tacoma
• tandrews_at_childrensmuseumoftacoma.org
• 253.627.6031
• Rusty George, Rusty George Creative
• rusty_at_rustygeorge.com
• 253.284.2140
• Stuart Young, BCRA
• syoung_at_bcradesign.com
• 253.627.4367

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