You may have seen news of the discovery of a jelly bean said to resemble Kate Middleton, the Royal bride to be. Apparently the bean is to be auctioned on Ebay and may fetch up to £500.
What Goes Around are pleased to announce our own jelly bean find, which is set to rival or even outstrip the royal wedding tale.
This afternoon we discovered a jelly bean which (vaguely) resembles an evil clown. It was down the back of the sofa. We will be watching the Kate Middleton jelly bean story and if the bean does indeed sell on Ebay for £500 we may consider listing our own evil clown jelly bean for sale.
That was just one of many very funny observations made in the Bring Your Children to Work Day board meeting yesterday! So how did it go? Here is a summary of the board discussion – where all the kids were invited to address the question “How do we make work more interesting?”
Succeeding
Having fun with colleagues
Seeing new people
Lunch
Payday
Interaction
Learning new things
Making new friends
That could be a great charter for any business eh? It’s a powerful list.
The kids were great fun. They let me know when they were bored and wanted to move on (love the honesty), and did a great job of participating and supporting one another.
Everyone made desk stands for all the mums and dads with their names, a picture and a description of what they do drawn on them*. We had a fund manager meeting and developed a new investment portfolio, and spent time on marketing and revamping some brand values too. We had a good fun trip out to observe some local history, and toured the building which gave the kids a great opportunity to showcase their work.
investment strategybrand values
Several of you gave me some great tips either here on the blog and on Twitter and LinkedIn too. Thanks for helping co-create such a fun and useful day. The serious business of fun!
*On my desk stand Keira wrote “he makes work better”. I think I’ve found a new marketing director, what a slogan!
I never cease to be amazed and delighted at the variety of work I get offered, and I’ve landed another fantastic gig. I’ve been invited to facilitate a bring your daughters and sons to work day for a financial services company.This is going to be pure excitement mixed with a dash of chaos,
All week the kids have been sending me cool facts about themselves. Favourite colour, favourite activities (annoying boys is in the lead at the moment!), and best things about school (Maths and Thinking Actively in a Social Context are both sounding good).
We’re going to play investment games. We’ll be visiting a market, making business cards, telling stories about what the mums and dads do and how it all fits together. There will be art stuff going on and the kids are going to have their own board meeting so they can tell us what good work should look like.
The kids are aged between 8 and 14 and I’d like to have plenty of things for them to do to keep the boredom at bay.
Can you help with this please?
What ideas and suggestions can you make that we could throw into the mix? Here’s your chance to pretend to be a kid again – grab that chance and chuck as much fun at me as you like. I need your ideas today please – what are you waiting for?
