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| Lauren Hannaford |
The Pink Palace, the Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Jerry’s Sno Cones, the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County, a
Memphis Redbirds game, a food truck rodeo, a walking tour of Downtown Memphis,
a trip to Muddy’s Bake Shop…the list goes on!
These are a few examples of what we like to call the
Obsidian fun team event. Once a month, we take a couple of hours out of one workday
to relax and do something fun as a team. Most of the time, we try to find
something free or at least relatively cheap, and we’ve been pretty successful.
What’s $5 to $10 when you get to take a couple of hours off work to do
something fun?
Why are these important? Because sometimes, you just have to
get out of the office and do something fun to shake things up! We are
entrenched daily in important client work in what I like to call a “strategic
thinking-intensive career.” Public relations requires constant strategic
thinking, and sometimes that can lead to brain fuzz.
Fun team events allow us to decompress for a couple of
hours, relax and bond as co-workers. Bonding leads to better brainstorming, a
better office environment and better overall outcomes for us and for our
clients. Thankfully, the way we operate at our firm allows time for us to do
this each month, and with eight team members in the Memphis office, it is a
little easier to organize.
If you don’t already have a regular fun team event in your
office, I encourage you to suggest it to your boss, making sure to highlight
the reasons why it’s such a good idea. Or, if it’s not possible for your office
to host a fun team event, I encourage you to take your lunch hour every once in
a while to go do something quickly and out of the ordinary. You’ll be surprised
the difference it makes in your day, week and month!
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