Jest Practices: Best Practices for Humor in the Workplace
Become An Improv-Master: Leveraging Improvisational Skills for Business & Life
The Lighter Side of Leadership
The Lighter Side of Customer Service
Homegrown Humor (Helping Adults Prospect their Past to find Humorous Their OWN Hidden Story Treasures)
Funny, You Don't Sound Funny (Humor for Speakers — When [and How] to Use It, When Not To)
Jest Practices: A Best Practices for Humor in the Workplace
Humor is the essential ingredient that can increase productivity, enhance team building, encourage creativity and improve esprit de corps in the workplace. Humor has physiological, psychological and practical benefits. It helps us clear our heads, stimulate mentation, and entertain ourselves and our co-workers. It makes hard tasks easier and actually creates an environment conducive to success. Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so too does a fun environment keep a workforce happy and healthy. It's no coincidence that when the humor quotient rises the absentee rate declines. Two letters of appreciation viewable here.
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Become An Improv-Master
Harness the power of Improvisation (AKA "Improv") to unleash creativity, sharpen listening, build rapport, deepen trust and team with success. Learn to accept the offer, replace Yes, but with Yes, AND, and help your partner look good in this interactive program full of fun games done as a group, in dyads and triads. Breakthroughs abound as audiences free themselves from linear thinking, unleash their creativity and co-create exciting new possibilities.
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The Lighter Side of Leadership
Laugh and learn from leaders who underwhelmed, overshot and missed the boat. The lighter side of Leadership finds humor in well intentioned leaders who shoot themselves in the foot, and lets new and seasoned leaders learn from the mistakes of other, sometimes well known leaders who lagged.
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The Lighter Side of Customer Service (AKA Help Desk Humor)
Call centers, help desks and customer service departments are high-stress environments. Yet there's humor to be had. We look at the lighter side of complaints, customers and customer service. Whether writing service haikus or role playing cranky calls from cantankerous customers, he and she who laughs, lasts!
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Homegrown Humor! (Prospecting your Past to Uncover Humorous Hidden Story Treasures)
You've got gold in your past. You have stories -- humorous ones -- from past experiences, that you can tell to share who you are, what you believe and how you learned life's lessons. Best yet, your unique stories have universal appeal. Why tell other peoples' stories when you have great stories of your own, from your youth, travels, school and work, to use in speeches and presentations, to transmit culture and more. This program helps you uncover and craft humorous stories for purposeful use. Speakers, meeting planners, business professionals and especially leaders in the US, Canada and elsewhere have all benefited from this training. You can too!
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Funny, You Don't Sound Funny! (Humor for Speakers)
Designed for professionals who don't "do" humor well, this presentation shows even the most staid and serious how to tap into their innate humor and share it with others. Craig teaches you how to loosen up, lighten up and liven up yourself and your audiences: co-workers, subordinates or staffs. Craig teaches you ways to introduce humor into your presentations, meetings, and work environment.
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Craig is a Member, Assoc. of Applied & Therapeutic Humor
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