How to Unleash Your Inner Child with Play at the Workplace with Jeff Harry

Your Career Cure

Are you afraid of being vulnerable and sharing at work? Would you like to show up more authentically and help your team do so too? How about embracing the play mindset to grow instead of being depressed, especially during the pandemic?

In this episode of the Your Career Cure Podcast, Gail Tolstoi-Miller interviews Jeff Harry of Rediscover Play. Jeff shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. He has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.

Jeff is also an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work around dealing with toxic people in the workplace. His play work has most recently been featured in the NY Times article: How Do We Add More Play to Our Grown-Up Life - Even Now. He has also been featured on AJ+, SoulPancake, the SF Chronicle, and CNN.

Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.

He describes how you can allow your team time to solve problems experimentally and playfully way without judging and shaming them. Listen in to learn the power of following your inner curiosity to discover the adventure on the other side of the fear without holding you back.

“Don’t think of the best-case scenario and the worst-case scenario, think of the most likely scenario.”

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What You Will Discover:

• [0:53] Jeff describes his childhood fascination with toys and background with play at work.
• [7:08] How to have real conversations to build trust and show up more fully to work through play.
• [11:50] Defining the play mindset as the growth mindset and the opposite as perfection and depression.
• [15:01] The importance of adapting to the play-oriented mindset not to be left behind.
• [19:30] Jeff explains two examples of how he conducts play with teams to deal with workplace toxicity.
• [25:42] Facts about the 8-hour workday and how to reduce useless activities of a workday.
• [28:10] The playful steps you can take as a job candidate to help you stand out in the market.
• [31:12] Jeff describes his lowest career moment as when he compromised himself in a corporate job.
• [34:17] Learn to follow your curiosity and have the courage to live the life you want.
• [39:44] How to create a psychologically safe environment as a team leader for staff to connect during the pandemic.
• [44:26] Figure out what makes you most alive and do it to become self-motivated.
• [50:07] The power of exploring your ‘lottery card’ and showing up.
• [52:23] The 3 best career and Corporate America answers that Jeff would give to win the 50 million dollars Your Career Cure Contest.

Get in Touch with Jeff:

• Website: https://www.rediscoveryourplay.com/
• Instagram: @jeffharryplays
• Twitter: @jeffharryplays
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-harry-6991a94/
• Medium: @jeffharryplays
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jchuche
• TikTok: @jeffharryplay

RESOURCES TO INSPIRE YOU TO PLAY MORE:

• How to Stop Wasting Time Scrolling and Start Finding Joy in Play - Mashable
• How Do You Add Play to Grown-Up Life - Even Now - NY Times
• Forget Resolutions...Try the Fun, Joy, Play Index
• A Play Experiment to Remind You Who You Are - Medium