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12 ideas to become a pro in CELEBRATIONS at workplace
*CELEBRATIONS acronym is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana
Celebrate festivals
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Absolutely Serious…
Create your work place the best place for cultural and regional harmony. Celebrate festival of each team member in the manner in which he celebrates it at home. Enjoy the depth and diversity of India.
E Enthuse people with your smile You will use lesser facial muscles and create a highly relaxed and enthused environment. What you give to people will be passed on to others too.
L Learn together Drop your pretensions. You are not semi-God. You have your limitations. Be willing to work on them. Be active and ready to learn new things from people around you. This will make them grow in confidence and capability.
E Extend yourself Walk the extra mile when you do something for people. Your intentions and actions will always be watched. Whatever you sow, so shall you reap.
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*CELEBRATIONS acronym is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana
Babies day out Children are babies to their parents irrespective of their age. Welcome the babies at work place. Greet them and treat them. Send them their pictures taken in the office. Don’t forget a frame too.
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R Reward with Bollywood and Hollywood breaks Gift them movie tickets for self and family for good performance or special personal occasions. Join them, if possible. Add the pop-corn allowance too.
A Annual team pictures Watch with fun the receding hairlines, the glowing greys, the maturing skins etc. as the time passes by. This annual feature can have a great archive value too.
T Thank you meets for families Bring them together to say “Thank you”, share flowers or some token gift for all the family time they give surrender whenever the team member is required to spend more than the needed time at work place during any particular period. They will respect you more for the care. They will also understand the constraints.
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*CELEBRATIONS acronym is the intellectual property of Rajiv Khurana
Invite the team home Your relationship will grow stronger at your own place. Keep aside your designation. Be like them. Serve them yourself. Involve your family. Keep the fare simple. Visit them too, with your family…
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O Organize your own ‘laughter club’ All big cities now have some. Organize your own club. Meet every day in the morning, afternoon or evening. Ease out your tension with a loud burst of laughter discharge. Laughter is a great infection to spread for rejuvenation.
N Neutralize negativity People have baggage-from-the-past, they get upset for things intended or untended…The gloom needs to be removed. Be on the look out. Trash it sooner with your empathy and influence.
S Set up a budget for gifting happiness and extending CELEBRATIONS Give a nominal budget to your people to spend on complimenting each other. Let them buy token gifts or cards to convey their appreciation to others for the good work done. Lead the way. Enjoy the happiness coming your way. Find reasons to celebrate.
The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating. ― Jarod Kintz
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Nothing Serious…
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Dale Carnegie may turn in his grave today. The
trainers and motivators are going to shout. The
training managers may slam their doors on me. Let
them. You, the readers, won’t be able to deny that
creating, sustaining and nurturing negativity is a
matter of great scholarly initiative/intervention. Ask
anyone alone. Their wisdom may surpass my
amateurish paper scribbling.
The real anchor of negativity could be the brilliant
Boss. He is the champion of thriving on chaos. His
pursuit of self wow and his ever evolving circle of
innovation may push Tom Peters to hide behind his
covers. Forget about teaching the elephants to
dance. People in the organisation can do their tango
only good, neat and clean news, views and stories?
Never. People like reading and complaining about
law and order problems, dirty politics etc. How
many movies have you seen without violence and
other socially forbidden ingredients? Hardly any.
Those who venture get bombed before the release.
OK, how many TV serials have you seen with clean
simple messages – direct as well as indirect. The
sponsors don’t pay money for them.
Rajiv Khurana is a transformationist through co-creative energy of people for individual and organizational impact. An International Management Consultant, Trainer and Executive Coach by description, he is a well published writer, author and digital expressionist.
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CELEBRATE NEGATIVITY
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News about negative events sell. Films about negative ingredients celebrate jubilees and win awards. The public at large glue every day to their TV with their mouth open while their hand waits with the morsel. The negative scenes are so engrossing. Negativity is the top form of entertainment. A great time pass for the masses. A profession for the classes. Ask politicians in the corporate and national jungle. Feeling inspired! Keep doing what you normally do. Some where some time you may reflect it too. If you wish to upgrade your skills, cross check whether you are doing what others do. Match up. • Try to control/influence the decisions of the people under and
around you. Never seek inputs from them. You know better than them. You are the big brother. Its your prerogative to watch them, catch them and snatch the initiative out of them. It won’t look brutal. Tuskers in India lose their ivory and life together. No one bothers. You are only taking the shine of pride away from people. They will live to sing the poems of your negativity.
• Work hours, pay benefits, assignment of overtime hours, compensation and incentives, dress codes, office facilities, job requirements, working conditions etc. offer numerous opportunities for you to throw the spanner in the wheels. Every day will provide you great opportunities to make the presence of your power felt. This will benefit your people too. They will start talking to each other more. Their interactivity will improve. Their network will get better. Negativity grows in geometric progression when the large groups start championing it.
• Transparency and consistency are dangerous for your idiosyncrasies. How can everyone be the same? God never made them. Why should you treat them all the same? You have the right to reward the merit as per your yardsticks of evaluation. If you treat people as adults, they will become more and more assertive. Bad for you. Use aggression to push them into submission. Let them understand that they need to please you to get their rewards. This much of transparency should be OK.
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CELEBRATE NEGATIVITY
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• Communication has its major problems in the organisation. Don’t do it enough. Give people the mushroom treatment. Keep them in the dark and feed them sh#@. Managing by creating crisis is your prerogative. Coping with and working inspite of confusion is their duty. Don’t come in the way of their duty.
• People want growth. They expect training. Give them. Train the trainable. This will conserve resources. You also owe good training holidays to your closest team mates. Who will look after them if you do not? Groom them thoroughly on following the leadership programmes. Don’t worry about the have-nots. India is full of them. They have no entity.
• Make a lot of noise about mission, vision, values and goals. It’s a fashion these days. Be trendy. Make big posters and display them in the work areas. I am not asking you to believe in them. People like slogans, phrases, charismatic jargons etc. to make a better cocktail with negativity. Let them feel happy and content. We all know the reality. Our lips do sing, “Saare jahan se achcha hindustan hamara…”.
Negative people by default bring in a lot of positive influence. They make a majority pass their time well. They go back and talk to their families. They meet in the parties and talk what happens in their offices. They bring smiles on the faces of consultants, trainers and authors. Dr. Eric Berne would not have written “Games people play” out of thin air. You should know why Thomas Harris kept shouting “I am OK, You are OK”. Excuse me Mr. Carnegie. The inspirational words written in grave yards “Do one good act a day” are passe’. “Trigger new negativity every hour” is the new mantra of 24/7 any time any where no matter work culture. Lets be positively negative.
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MONKEY SALVATION FOR A FISH “What on earth are you doing?” said I to the monkey when I saw him Hit a fish from the water and place it on a tree. “I am saving it from drowning’,” was the reply. The sun that gives sight to the eagle blinds the owl.
THE LITTLE FISH “Excuse me,” said an ocean fish, “You are older than I so can you tell me where to find this thing they call the Ocean?” “The Ocean,” said the older fish, “is the thing you are in now,” “Oh, this? But this is water. What I’m seeking is the Ocean,” said the disappointed fish as he swam away to search elsewhere. He came to the Master in sanyasi robes. And he spoke sanyasi language: “For years I have been seeking God. I have sought Him everywhere that He is said to be - on mountain peaks, the vastness of the desert, and the silence of the cloister and the dwellings of the poor.” “Have you found him?” the Master asked. “No. I have not. Have you?” What could the Master say? The evening sun was sending shafts of golden light into the room. Hundreds of sparrows were twittering on a banyan tree. In the distance one could hear the sound of highway traffic. A mosquito droned a warning that it was going to strike... And yet this man could sit there and say he had not found Him. After a while he left, disappointed, to search elsewhere. Stop searching, little fish. There isn’t anything to look for. All you have to do is look.
The Institute of Management Consultants of India, Delhi Chapter
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“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel”
“I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.” ― Michael Jackson, Moonwalk
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“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.” ― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“If you can’t celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation.” ― M.F. Moonzajer
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