Fun Fun Fun!

Last night I attended an event at my daughters middle school. The seventh grade had taken a their annual trip to Cape Cod. They spent three days studying the environment, erosion, history and marine biology - oh and they had a blast doing it.
It was amazing to me how much data these kids had uncovered and collected in just three days. Reading over their individual reports it was amazing how astute some of their observations were and I wondered if and how long those lessons would have taken in the classroom.
I then made a connection between learning and the fun these kids had - In sales it is also important to make this difficult job fun!
Too many business leaders fail to do this and as a result their sales people are not motivated to go above and beyond. Their people are often spending 50% of their time looking for job where like these kids they can accomplish the objectives and still have fun doing so. Training also needs to be fun if the lessons are going to have any affect.
A Roman General by the name of Titus had this down about 2000 years ago. He would offer incentives of R&R when he needed to build a fence or a ditch and make this miserable task a contest - oh and his productivity increased at the same time!
Don't be scared to include fun in your business, your personal learning program or even your activity levels - then even digging a ditch so to speak can become blast.