fish philosophy ?

was it a nice change in the way of working...did it really had any impact on the company's performance....we are not given any training...what did you do in the training....

My company has always placed importance on customer service and a fun work environment, but for a while there, it did seem to be even MORE fun and exciting at work, but it kinda sank back to its normal level after while, as most things like this usually do. During the training we watched a video, as i said, about the fish market that this idea sprang from. It was actually really cool, and explained a lot of the basic ideas of this philosophy while being entertaining. Basicly these guys toss fish around back and forth all day, and if they didn't have fun, and work as a team, people would be getting smacked with halibuts or fish would b falling all over the floor all day. As for some of the other activities, we did team building exercises, focusing on the importance of teamwork. One group of people got to go into another room and work on a small "project" together, while the others had to work on the project individualy. The group that worked together had much more success at finishing the project on time, and had fun while doing it, while those who had to do the work by themselves didn't do near as good of a job, and were stressed out about it. Also for the first little while after the training class at work, we had a fish shaped piece of paper that circulated around. whenever you saw someone doing an awesome job at what ever they were working on, you would write thier name on the fish and pass it to them, and they then had to do the same, look for someone doing an exceptional job and pass it on. At the end of each week, the people whose names appeared on the fish all got small tricket of appreciation, and the person who was on their the most recived a gift certificate for free lunch. It was a way of learning to recognize the hard work and showing appreciation to those around you at work. As it is late, and i am too lazy to type out the entire URL (my apologys, but i would probably mis-type it anyways) i suggest going to wikipedia and searching for FISH! philosophy. Lots of interesting infor there on what it is about, how it cam about, and ways to help in using it at work.

Yeah, it does really look interesting but, I think I have to be realistic with where I work. It seems like it wouldn't implement something like that anytime soon.. (-_-")

well yes....we were also informed that it was started some where in the fish market...although no movie was shown to us...we are been informed about the work we do and its importance....it is just few weeks since this has started I hope to see more changes at the office...specially with regards to fun...now a days we are being separated into different teams.