Hi, I'm Sarah and in this squiggly shortcut, I'm going to be talking to you about small ways to make play a part of your team day.

Now, caveats before we even get started, what we don't want to do here is create forced fun that everybody dreads.

You know, I'm the biggest cynic and most skeptical person when it comes to that.

So what we are trying to do here is to design small pockets of play that feel very low pressure,

really easy for everybody to get involved in.

And in some way, sort of optional.

So people can share what they want to share and not being made to do anything they don't want to do because nobody likes that.

But play is really powerful. It doesn't get talked about that often at work. But I've got a couple of really nice quotes that I wanted to share with you.

One doctor, and he also wrote a book, an author of a book called Play, Stuart Brown, says, when we stop

playing, we stop developing. So like playing and learning, go hand in hand. And Linda Grattan,

who if you watch lots of our work, you know we're a big fan of Linda's work and her book,

The Hundred Year Life, she says, we are much more likely to love our work when we see it as play. Again, I'm not expecting

you to see every day at work as play. But I think it's just this idea of like we can be playful in

what we do. And so if you've got a team day coming up or you're spending time together,

whether that is virtually, could even be a team meeting or in a room, some ways that you could use play

to connect, to get to know each other, and just to have a bit of fun too. And I think we've

done pretty much all of the ones I'm going to talk to you about today. So I've seen them work.

And like I said, even as someone who's a bit more skeptical, I can reassure you that these

feel fun in kind of the best, the best possible way.

So number one, secret skills. Everybody has secret skills that they just don't talk about

at work unless you know each other really, really well. So just get everybody to share a secret

skill they've got. We've used this on the podcast before when we've got guests,

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