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Evidence shows that employees who have fun at work are healthier and more productive. But, how do we have fun at work when everyone is working remotely? Here are some great ways to include a sense of positivity and levity in your work
Inclusive design – or rather, exclusive design – impacts so many aspects of our lives. And it can be critical to the success of any new product, service, or experience. Here are a few ways to get started with inclusive design and deepen your understanding of diversity and inclusion’s impact on the design of everyday things.
As a new way to build positive organizational cultures, Mindhatch presents White Privilege, Black Power, an improv show that tackles diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
The constraints of our new remote-only work from home lives present some really great opportunities. To get you started, we’ve come up with several creative and effective ways to create and maintain a great company culture from a distance.
Given the stress everyone is under and the uncertainty of what lies ahead, it’s never been more important to also approach your remote meetings and collaborations from a human-centered, people-first mindset. Breaks, when strategically used and planned for in advance, can be an active space for rejuvenation and human-centered collaboration. Here are some ideas we have for how you can bring a little empathy, connectedness, and even lightheartedness to your remote team work.
Research shows that trying something new can make you happier, healthier, and smarter. Get in the practice of trying new things, big and small, at work or at home. Here are 23 ways to work a little new into your life.
As “Yes, and …” has become a more popular tool for the workplace, organizations often think they’re using the technique effectively. In reality, teams are usually focused more on the words and not embodying the spirit of the phrase. The benefits of “Yes, and …” are many but only if you do it right. Here are four simple techniques to make the magic of radical agreement happen.
Learn the Mindhatch approach to innovation to avoid falling in to the “doing more with less” trap. Follow our steps to start seeing innovation as a way of creating new value and possibilities, not merely extracting incremental value.
So, you’ve just done an improv workshop with your team and are asking yourself the million-dollar question of “Now what? How do I take this fun, seemingly one-time thing I did with my team and really make its effects last?” The good news is there is plenty you can do to continue to build and sustain an improv culture within your organization.
Without engaged employees, a company won’t be as successful as it could be. We need to break out of the default paradigms of human resources and start designing for the end-to-end employee experience. Why? Because a better employee experience leads to improved employee engagement.
