Managing to Have Fun - Business author Paul Hawken said it best, “We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, by being professional or by being institutional.” Perhaps that’s why many leaders are embracing one of the most undervalued human resources they have at their disposal - their sense of humour.

Laughing Your Way to the Top - You probably haven’t heard this one making the rounds at the water cooler, because it’s not a joke.

Workplace Sanity - A Laughing Matter? - Many years ago I suffered from all the classic symptoms of workplace stress. I lost countless hours of sleep (I looked for them everywhere, but to no avail), and had nightmares about work too numerous to count.

You Can’t Be Serious! - Humour in the workplace is the Rodney Dangerfield of human resources management. Like the tie-tugging, fidgeting comedian, the topic just doesn’t seem to get any respect. In fact, when I suggest that people should add copious amounts of humour to their work lives, many people react with disbelief.

Survival of the Funniest? - An alarming number of people are becoming terminally serious. The symptoms include a permanently furrowed brow, numerous bad hair days and a loss of perspective resulting in the tendency to take oneself way too seriously (or is it the other way around?).

Reading Between the Punchlines - Although subversive, “unsafe” humour should never be encouraged in the workplace, its presence can be advantageous. Why? Because for humour to be effective, there has to be some truth present.

How to Put Humour to Work Without Getting Fired! - Here are 8 simple guiding lights to consider when putting humour to work in any type of organization.

Mirth Conceptions About Putting Humour to Work - Mix business with pleasure? Add copious amounts of fun and humour to the workplace? Surely, you can’t be serious!

Laughing for the Health of It: Putting Humour to Work to Lower Stress - Many psychologist believe that humour is the complete opposite of stress. In makes sense then, that if we want to manage workplace stress more effectively we should practice tapping into our sense of humour on a more regular basis.

We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This! - If you leave your office meetings feeling frustrated, demoralized and are always telling your co-workers “We’ve got to stop meeting like this!” then maybe you need to look at ways of injecting a little more fun and humour into your meetings.

The Office Commute - May the Farce Be With You - Even the term “commute” has a foreboding sense about it (it sounds like a tropical disease – “I’ve just come down with a bad case of commute!”).

Use Humour to Stand Out from the Herd and Boost Sales!

When Do You Let the Animals Out? Keeping Your Sense of Humor When Traveling - As a former park naturalist in Banff, Canada’s most famous national park, I know first hand that one of the most important pieces of survival equipment a traveler needs to pack along is their sense of humour.

Practice Safe Humour When Overseas - Many years ago, while speaking to a group of Thai delegates on a trip through the Rockies, I told my favourite grizzly joke. The interpreter spent 3 minutes translating my hilarious joke, where upon the group gazed at me with an eerie collective silence.

Get Serious About Your Office Toys - Five-year-olds must know something we grown-ups don’t. After all, most five-year olds aren’t stressed out, creativity peaks when we’re around five and most youngsters laugh far more often than adults seem to.

In Search of Fools - Wearing nothing but my trusted Batman pajamas, I crept silently into the kitchen. Giggling to myself, I reached for the shakers, and, my hands trembling with heady excitement, deftly went to work with a devilish gleam in my eye.

HELP! I’m Stressed! - If you nodded your head, grunted “yup!” or showed any subliminal signs of agreement with the above question, then at least take some comfort in the fact that you’re not alone.