Fish!

It's not often that a directorate meeting at work inspires me but we were shown a film this week which really got me to thinking. In our cynical, been-in-this-job-too-long kind of way, we all sat back to watch a film that appeared, on the face of it, to be about a mad set of fishmongers in Seattle who throw fish about the market and shout stupid things to each other.

It actually turns out that it's inspired a whole training philosophy about having fun at work and how that can improve your customer service as well as productivity. All very training-speak, as Mike would say, but I really enjoyed it!

It made me think - if I choose to be fed up and grumpy, whatever I'm doing, I'll only ever be fed up and grumpy and so will everyone else around me. If I make a conscious decision to be a bit more positive (not something I do amazingly often) then, chances are, I'll have a pretty good day and so will 0thers.

Not rocket science, I agree, but something I'm going to try a bit more often....

I couldn't find the whole film but there's a trailer for the "Philosophy" which includes some bits from the fish market but also (and don't say I didn't warn you) a scary looking bloke who obviously wrote the training stuff. Ignore him and enjoy the fish madness!!