Read this blog written by  John Christensen,  CEO, ChartHouse Learning,  Home of the FISH Philosophy: Here’s the raw truth: 57% quit because their boss is a nightmare (source: Gallup). 82% fantasize about quitting for the same reason (source: GoodHire). Ouch. That’s a lot of talent walking out the door. Here’s what can turn your workplace into a ghost town: Lack of Recognition . When managers fail to appreciate employees for their work, they can feel undervalued: “Why work hard? Nobody cares.” Poor Communication. A lack of open, honest communication from managers can create uncertainty and mistrust. “Every week we get a memo that nobody reads.” Inflexibility . Managers who are unwilling to consider employees' ideas can come across as uncaring or dismissive. “Nobody listens and nothing changes   Now, flip the script. Imagine: Attrition plummets to 1.5% (Verizon) Productivity surges 50% (Citizens First Bank)  Turnover falls ...

How healthy is your culture? Find out in 5 minutes. Take the FISH! Culture Checkup! Leaders have one perception of the company culture. Employees may have another perception. But why don’t you check it in 5 minutes and then have a look at it? This is how you do it: Ask 3 employees to follow this link https://fishphilosophy.com/culture-checkup/ and register and receive an email to start the checkup. Answer all 20 questions and submit your answers and receive the result. Show the result to the entire team at your next team meeting. Ask again and again: What do you see? What do you also see? When you have asked this question at least 20 times continue with a new question: What shall we do about it? What shall we also do about it? When must we start? Do we agree? Do we all agree? Just do it! Talk about it next time you meet and agree more or adjustments. Keep talking about it! If you need relevant tools please have a closer look at website www.LEADERSwarehouse.COM/en/ including many FI...

The Team Coaching Mat is a must have:  Build your team with this mat for 1 focus person at a time and up to 10 helpers. It is totally OK to read out loud from a script when you have a focus person in the middle that needs help. With The Team Coaching Mat, you are more likely to get started helping a colleague, both getting to know her or him better, acknowledging and appreciating her or him and then also helping her or him with a problem area.  When the coaching carpet lies there on the floor or on a table and invites you, there is a greater willingness to talk about what may be difficult to talk about. When talking about things, frictions, problems, conflicts, difficulties become halved or in any case smaller. And when problems become smaller, they take up less space and there is more room for actual tasks - the work. It is also nice to know for everyone that help is near. The Team Coaching Mat is right there. You really just have to step into the middle and call for some col...

Speed dating with no dating but lots of speed:  All fun and serious teambuilding activities starts with the same thing. The leader says: Please stand up and enter the floor. The leader should not tell them what to expect. Don't tell them about the method. Don't tell them to be anxious or safe. You are their leader and they should have confidence in you. So tell them the headline, the cause, why they are leaving their chairs to stand up together.  Please get up and enter the floor For your information you must have an objective inviting everyone out on the floor. This objective could be learning how to handle a new system, coping with stress, your company culture or the team and the way they work as a team. And you want them to talk about it in pairs. Why this? I mean why talk about a vital topic in pairs? Well, first people tend to open up easier when they only have one to talk to. But there is another reason too. People always remember what they said themself. So if you come ...

12 fishmongers and their leader became the start of a global cultural revolution:  FISH! films, books, posters, soft toy and team exercises have been a source of inspiration in many, many companies worldwide. The iconic fish shop World Famous Pike Place Fish has been an inspiration ever since the first fish was thrown in 1965. The 12 fishmongers just sat down in the back room and talked about how they could become world famous. World fame does not come by itself. It must be created every single day. Therefore they continued to meet out in the back room and talk about business for half the meeting time and about their manner of doing what they did for the other half of the meeting time. Every second Thursday. All year. A relatively simple recipe. But even though it sounds simple, there are not many who have succeeded in doing what the fishmongers did. FISH! is an  invitation  to re-awaken the self-trusting, creative spirit within each of us. FISH!  inspires  ...

Have you ever heard of a man named Vic Cianca? If the name doesn’t ring a bell, don’t worry: he’s one of the many unsung heroes of the world who make their communities just a little bit better by virtue of being themselves. Vic Cianca was a traffic cop in Pittsburgh who was beloved for his, shall we say, unique ways of directing traffic every day on the job. Rather than just standing there, pointing the way with his arms, he truly made the job his own–from pretending to fall asleep when distracted drivers failed to move, to pleading with traffic to keep going, to even using legs and other limbs to direct cars, Cianca turned this one intersection into his own Jester’s Court every day he worked. He even gained some notoriety for his antics: not only did everyone in the city love him, but his passion and humor even made it into the hit 1980’s movie Flashdance , where he served as inspiration for Jennifer Beals’ would-be dancer. Sadly, Vic Cianca passed away in 2010 at the age of 92, ...

  Sådan sikrer lederen, at  medarbejderne kan lide hinanden og kan de lide deres arbejde:  Når medarbejderne kan lide deres kolleger kan de også lide deres arbejde. Nogle mennesker hader at gå på arbejde. Det skyldes, at de ikke kan lide alle deres kolleger eller ikke kan lide chefen. Det kan lederen gøre noget ved. Men umiddelbart lyder det ikke nemt, at få mennesker til at holde af hinanden, have det sjovt sammen, nyde hinandens selskab. Men hvad nu hvis lederen kan skabe et fællesskab, hvor alle kan lide hinanden? Løsningen kommer her: Lederen kan bruge FISH! som er det enkleste og billigste redskab på markedet. FISH! består af film, bøger, plakater, hæfter, fisk, øvelser og planer for at skabe et fællesskab med gode relationer - og god hjælp til at komme i gang og holde det ved lige. Enhver leder kan gøre det selv - uden at blande eksterne konsulenter ind i opgaven. Først lidt forhistorie. Det var Pike Place Fish i Seattle som skabte deres fællesskab i den nu verd...

And this is exactly what the four FISH! practices will do to you and your team. The four practices can help any individual and any team to become ‘friends’. Well, ‘friends at work’ at least. The four practices are BE THERE, PLAY, CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE and MAKE THEIR DAY. These fabulous four are not just smart headlines. They are interrelated and they are very practical. They are interrelated in the sense that you have to use all four simultaneously. You can not leave out one of them or just go with one of them.  They are practical in the sense that everyone can practise them daily - alone and in the team. FISH! delivers a series of methods and exercises easy to use - and fun too. The leader does not have to invent ways to keep on talking about FISH! - lots of material has been invented. Why is it vitally important that your employees are friends or ‘friends’ at work? The answer is quite easy - and you know it already. People like what they are doing with people they like. The opposi...