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Taking a playful approach at work can deepen relationships, expand perspectives, and trigger breakthroughs, according to behavioural change specialists who advocate "playfulness" in coaching.

Part of a coach's job is to help people "remove the layers of habit, past experience, perceptions, and work with them to see differently and perhaps to facilitate lasting transformational change", say Playfulness in Coaching authors Stephanie Wheeler and Teresa Leyman.

Therefore, not "opening the door to play, playfulness, imagination and creativity" might mean missing an opportunity to help them "change the lenses through which they are seeing their experience, as well as the goals they aspire to", they say...