Monday’s, most typically, are the least favorite day of the work week but the Monday following the Daylight Saving’s “spring forward” time change, arguably, should be considered the worst of Mondays being that people find it even more challenging to face this workday since they are still adjusting to having lost an hour from their lives the day before. According to numerous studies, the attitudes and happenings around this lost hour cause this Monday to be particularly low in workplace productivity.
What might you be doing to counteract the loss of productivity that will most likely occur in your workplace on Monday, March 14, 2016?
At Performance Management Company, we’re always looking for opportunities that can bring about employee engagement and workplace improvement for better organizational success. Realizing that Monday, March 14th is that special kind of day that needs a good reason for getting up and going to work, we’ve got a concept and solution for turning it into a rewarding workplace happening day and we’re calling it,
Spring Forward Monday!
What is the Spring Forward Monday Concept?
Managers and leaders can gather their employees together and seize Monday, March 14, 2016, as day for workplace improvement by inviting ideas, innovation and involvement for improving workplace practices. By doing so, people can get away from their desks and become energized by taking part in a process that can make a positive difference for everyone.
How Can You Do This?
It’s simple. Facilitate a session that will stimulate and engage employees in sharing their perspectives and ideas for making a better workplace. Doing so will give them a feeling of empowerment and an opportunity to create improvements and increased workplace happiness.
If you’d like a way to successfully approach this, we designed The Stupidly Simple Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit for just this type of occasion with everything needed to create an interactive and engaging session with serious outcomes. The gist of this Toolkit is the Square Wheels One illustration that elegantly generates thinking, creativity and humor as people react to it and its lead-in statement, “This is how most organizations really work.”
You can purchase this Toolkit here for only $24.95, for a one-time cost with unlimited use with any number of people.
- The Square Wheels One illustration (in both the original line-art and its Lego image)
- A Leader’s Guide for facilitating the session
- Participant Worksheets/Handouts
- A collection of Square Wheels Lego Posters that can be hung in the workplace as anchors to the insights gained.
Whether you choose to use this Toolkit or prefer to consider another way to approach the Spring Forward Monday concept, it surely makes sense to make a difference in everyone’s present and future workdays through involving them and energizing them in the journey forward.
Make Monday, March 14, 2016 your
Spring Forward Monday!
For the FUN of It!
Dr. Scott Simmerman is a designer of team building games 
and organization improvement tools. Managing Partner of Performance Management Company since 1984, he is an experienced presenter and consultant.
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