Playing It Forward: The Definitive How to Model for Creating a Winning Workplace Culture

Whether you're a believer in the proven theories that fun in the workplace can lead to endless business benefits, or just starting to wonder if this may be true, you've come to the right place. What you hold in your hands is a playbook. A playbook that will show you how to take the traditional (and sometimes expensive and ineffective) concepts for fun at work and turn them into customized, brief, cost-effective and highly impactful experiences. In recent years, there have been many experts and theorists who have touted fun. They've conducted studies, given speeches and written books that prove that fun works. It's good for people, and it's good for business. But we've gone and taken the next step. We've worked with organizations - from Fortune 100 companies to small family-owned businesses to non-profits - to show them exactly what to do and "how to" do it. Playing it Forward will show you the steps to creating a winning workplace culture. Our model offers the foundations on which to develop a positive and productive culture - answering the difficult questions of: where, when, how and why fun should fit in to your workplace? We'll give you the specifics of what to do, where to start and how to implement fun in a fashion that will be lasting and meaningful for your people. With over a decade of delivering more fun in the workplace than anyone in the world, we are Playing it Forward to teach you how. This book will help you to create your own Fun Department (or call it whatever you you'd like) - a mechanism to spark conversation, ignite team unity and boost employee engagement across your company. Because after all, you already know that fun is good for business. And now you have a clear path to bring it into your organization. So, let's work together to achieve those endless business benefits and create that winning workplace culture.

About the Author :
Nat Measley, the CEO and Managing Partner ("Master of Fun") at The Fun Dept., has lived and breathed fun since he was a baby. (Literally. He grew up in chocolate heaven - Hershey, Pennsylvania.) This Olympic swimmer wannabe and karaoke crooner has two degrees from the University of Delaware - a Bachelor of Science in Sport Management and a Master of Public Administration with a focus on Organizational Leadership. Nat is an experienced public speaker, facilitator, and trainer. He works directly with CEOs, leaders, HR professionals, and administrators to develop fun programming that supports their organizational goals. Nat loves to travel for work, for fun, and oftentimes for both!