Given the choice of riding an escalator vs. climbing stairs, most people choose the free ride on the escalator.
You make it more fun to stair-it. In this case study from folks at The Fun Theory, they increased stair usage by 66% by making stairs more fun.
The Fun Theory believes that fun is the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the better. This video is one of their case studies.
The PC PendulumAll too often in the cautious world of political correctness, people develop fun-phobia. We fear connecting with our inner child. Miss-timed playfulness can be inappropriate. But having fun at work gets a bad rap. All too often the sound of laughter in the workplace leads others to assume that work isn’t getting done.
The stair example shows the potential power of making things fun.
Is it possible that fun is the most underrated influencing tool in your leadership toolbox?
In the words of former President and legendary WW2 leader, Dwight D. Eisenhower:
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.“
How might you put The Fun Theory to use? If it works for stair climbing, how might you inject fun to the important things you struggle to get done by others?
Tom Lemanski helps accomplished leaders unlock potential, solve complex challenges, and amplify their impact.
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Love it! So simple, yet so effective. A covering had to be installed on those stairs. It didn’t take much more time or money to create the piano keys. This concept of fun can be applied far and wide… if we make the small effort.
A testament to the importance of ‘art’.
~Christine