Humor in the Workplace Blog
Why not a humor coach?
Many executives and supervisors of all ages and experience levels are turning to coaches or mentoring programs for personal and professional development. So why not consider getting a humor coach?
Create a Teamwork Charter
Ask all the people on your team to define teamwork and you’ll likely come up with as many definitions as there are members of your team.
Got the Sunday night blahs? Maybe it’s your workplace culture?
An article in the newspaper this week reported on how the incidence of insomnia in restless sleepers peaks on Sunday evenings.
Why aren’t you using more humor in your communications?
The next time you meet with your team ask everyone a simple question: “What’s their favorite TV commercial right now?” or try, “What TV ads stand out in your mind from the last year?”
Humor and Optimism
There’s a perception I think that having a healthy sense of humor is sometimes associated with blind optimism.
Small Humor, Big Humor
Some researchers who study humor (yes, they do exist!) and report their findings in the International Journal of Humor Research make an important distinction between two types of humor.
L’esprit de l’escalier
I recently emceed the convention for the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. Emceeing a convention definitely requires a specific skill set. And emceeing an event that includes a room full of your peers, and not just any peers, a roomful of professional speakers, requires, perhaps a thick skin.
Redundant? We Treat our Computers Better than our Employees!
I recently heard yet another story of an employee telling me how she had been labelled as officially “redundant.”
Start Earning Employee Loyalty Day One
I had a front row seat, literally, to a very unprofessional dressing down of a brand new employee on a recent Air Canada flight.
Bombing Joke Bombs for Former Politician
Former cabinet minister and current Newfoundland and Labrador Lt.-Gov. John Crosby got roasted this week after making an offensive joke during a speech.