Building a Positive Work Culture
APPLYING PLAY BASED LEARNING TO FOSTER SUCCESS
PLAYFUL LEARNING
A Catalyst for Creating a Positive Work Culture
At Ziksana Consulting, we believe that playful learning helps foster a vibrant and positive work culture. Playful learning helps break down barriers, encourages open communication, and builds psychological safety. This approach is a catalyst for transforming organizational cultures, making learning not only more productive but also more enjoyable and safer for everyone involved.
Leveraging the Science of Play With Our PlayDuctivity™ Framework
PlayDuctivity™ is our framework for creating a positive work culture. We combine the expertise of Leadership Development, the dynamics of Experiential Learning, and the Science of Play to design services that inspire leaders, teams, and organizations to learn new skills and get better results. We use our proprietary framework to help connect the value of play with real outcomes.
Our PlayDuctivity™ Framework
We combine our expertise in Leadership Development, Experiential Learning, and the Science of Play, to design services that motivate Leaders, Teams, and Organizations to improve their performance
THE SCIENCE OF PLAY
How to Create a Positive Work Culture Through Play
The science of play has been well documented – below, explore how play shows us how to create a positive culture at work by fostering ideal learning environments, supporting creativity and innovation, promoting adaptability and openness to change, and enhancing decision making and strategic thinking.
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Play Creates Ideal Learning Environments
- 96% of our participants agree that play created a safe environment for them to try new skills.
- Play creates an environment where teams and leaders are more willing to take risks, experiment, and learn from failure.(1)
Play Supports Creativity and Innovation
- Play is a precursor to creativity! Playful team interactions can contribute to enhanced levels of team knowledge sharing and creativity.(2)
- Play enhances leaders’ ability to be creative and promote ongoing innovation and organizational change.(2)
Play Promotes Adaptability & Openness to Change
- Play is a successful tool for coping effectively with continuous change and developing adaptability in leaders, teams, and organizations.(1)
- Play has been associated with shifts and transformations at the emotional level of experience, including coping with ambiguity.(4)
Play Enhances Decision Making & Strategic Thinking
- Play teaches leaders how to make better spontaneous decisions.(1)
- Play has been associated with the generation of new insights including innovative strategy content and the facilitation of analogical reasoning.(4)
Play Helps Managers Develop New Skills
- Play gives managers the opportunity to experiment with different leadership styles, helping them develop an authentic leadership identity.(2)
- Play-Based learning provides energy and engagement, making it more likely that managers will invest in their learning and practice new skills.(2)
Accelerates Collaboration & Team Performance
- By bringing teams together through trust and mutual engagement, play can generate the collaborative, interdependent environment needed for successful goal achievement and organizational success.(3)
- Play drives optimal organizational performance by increasing team creativity, communication, and team cohesion.(3)
PHILOSOPHY
Recommended
Reading
Effects of improvisation techniques in leadership development.
Tabaee, F. (2013)
Games managers play: Play as a form of leadership development.
Kark, R. (2011)
Serious play as a practice of paradox.
Statler, M., Heracleous, L., and Jacobs, C. D. (2011).
