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In a game of Cards Against Humanity, somebody will draw half of a sentence from the card deck. You must then use your own personal stash of cards to complete the sentence. If your solution is voted as the funniest, you win the round. You can print a free copy of this game from the Cards Against Humanity website , as long as you promise not to use it to make money. We believe you should encourage your teams to be physically active where possible. Not only this, but sports can encourage healthy competition, which can be good for motivating your employees to perform better at their jobs.
Here are some ideas for making sports and physical activities an important part of your working environment. Organising a sports tournament between teams is a great way to encourage a little bit of healthy competition, and get the blood pumping. Outdoor or field sports lend themselves well to tournaments — think about sports like soccer, volleyball or even extreme frisbee! Instead of organising a competition between teams, one great idea is to organise a challenge between other businesses or organisations.
The reason we believe organising a challenge between other businesses works so well, is because it can really encourage that team spirit and make your teams even closer to each other than before. Ping pong, or table tennis, is the classic indoor sport for office spaces. It only needs a small amount of space, and it provides a great workout at the same time. These can break, so make sure you have plenty spare.
If you have a ping pong table, then a great game to try at work, if you want to include multiple people at once, is a big game of run-around. The game works best with around 8 people, but can be fine to play with How a game of run-around works, is everybody stands in a circle around the table, holding a bat.
The two players at opposite ends of the table will start — one will serve the ball to the other. However, upon hitting the ball, each player will begin making their way to the next side of the table, leaving the player behind them to return the next shot. Each time a player misses a shot, they sit out, until eventually only 2 people remain.
You can declare these joint winners, or have a play-off to determine the champion. If you want something a little more gentle, which takes up even less space, then a foosball table is a good alternative for sport. While it is not particularly physically active, it is suitable for players at a time, and can lend itself well to tournaments and leagues.
In fact, a one-hour session of yoga probably produces enough sweat to fill a bucket. But seriously, yoga can be a great way to help your team focus their minds and bodies. Not only does it boost concentration and energy levels, but it helps you keep your employees physically healthy.
These games are exceptionally fun, and encourage your employees to really think outside the box, and get their creative juices flowing.
In the story game, players sit in a big circle. Each player takes a blank piece of paper, and writes the first sentence of a story. Once done, everybody passes their paper to the person on their left.
The next person reads the previous sentences, then writes the next sentence. However, before passing this on, they fold the previous sentence over so that it cannot be seen. This way, each player is only ever following on from the very last sentence in the story. This can make the stories disjointed, surprising, and most of all, hilarious.
Once the bottom of the page is reached, the story ends. And everybody reads out the end result to the rest of the group. Similar to the story game, players sit in a circle and each take a piece of blank paper.
Everybody draws a head, of any sort — it could be a gentleman with a moustache and a hat, or it could be a 7-eyed octopus. Once done, players fold the paper over so that only the very bottom part of the head is showing. These heads get passed to the left, and then each player draws a torso and arms if indeed arms are required! Again, this gets folded and passed. A paper plane competition is a great way to encourage creative thinking, while promoting careful planning and craftsmanship, and tying in a bit of healthy competitive spirit.
You can give out numerous prizes for the planes your colleagues build — including the plane to fly the farthest, and the plane that stays in the air for longest. Take a regular Jenga set, and divide all blocks between players. Ask employees to take a pen, and write down a different scenario on each block. For example, if you wanted to keep this game work-related, you could ask players to write down a situation that might happen in the workplace.
You can ask for serious scenarios e. Then, set up the game as normal. Colemak looked the most promising and I was excited to try it. So I went ahead and tried it and immediately it felt good. I noticed that my fingers were not moving up and down as much and most of the time they stayed on the home row. However after a few days of practicing on K-touch, a nagging feeling started to creep in. Something felt rather awkward. So I kept on and while doing so, I tried to analyze how my hands were moving and then the problem became clear to me.
The Colemak keyboard layout. My initial excitement turned to disappointment when I realized that even though my fingers were not moving up and down as much, they were moving too much laterally.
To give you an idea on why this could be serious, consider these:. All this is happening in a split second. This is by design since the purpose was to optimize the home row keys for high frequency letters to reduce finger travel, which is primarily caused by moving up and down above and below the home row. Colemak by design, as well as Dvorak tries to reduce use of the top and the bottom rows. Actually, when you think about it, most of the other alternative layouts optimize for this very thing.
However, I believe that the way that alternative layouts focus on just the home row for optimization is somewhat misguided. I believe that by moving these letters, horizontal and diagonal stretching could be made less and the load on the right pinky could be reduced. I was really disappointed that Colemak was not the layout that I had hoped it would be. I felt that it could be made better.
I used the awesome Keyboard Compare applet by John A. Long story short, I got pretty crappy results. If you squeeze on one side, it bulges on other sides. I decided to try to create a new keyboard layout based on these ideas. I first came up with the following observations and assumptions:. Most of these seem obvious enough but it helps to jot them down for clarity. I then came up with a set of principles to serve as guidelines to help me with the design:.
This grading scale takes into consideration the position of the keys, the strength of and length of the fingers and the staggered nature of the keyboard. I call it the Workman Keyboard Layout in honor of all who type on keyboards for a living. The Workman Keyboard Layout.
In Workman-P, the top-row numbers and symbols have been switched as well as the brace and brackets. It is great for programmers as well as system administrators. Workman for Programmers.
On Workman, the most often used keys are evenly and pleasantly distributed inside the natural range of motion of the fingers. This is because Workman efficiently utilizes other easy to reach keys instead of just placing them in the middle columns where they are difficult to reach. Looking at the first example. However, Workman is even lower at 29, meters — a difference of meters.
And considering that the distance between keyboard keys is approximately 2 cm, typing on Workman is like typing 34, less keystrokes than typing on Colemak.
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