Humor in the Workplace:
Creating a Positive Environment
Dick's interactive humor workshop
for business and other organizations of all
sizes. Humor plays a huge role in the culture
of an organization.
Corporate Culture
"The internal social
environment of a business organization:
the values, attitudes, and beliefs of
employees: the leadership style of management,
and the overall manner in which a company
conducts business. This "culture" exerts
a continuing and significant influence
on the way people work."
- The Light Touch,
by Malcolm Kushner, Simon and Schuster,
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Allow appropriate
humor to
flourish and it will energize,
motivate, relieve stress, increase efficiency
and teamwork, and enhance the overall work environment.
Stifle humor and it will move underground, become
sarcastic, even caustic, and undermine the
performance of the entire organization. By
listening to the types of humor practiced in
an office or in the home, you can get a good
idea of the overall health of the organization
or family.
Humor in the workplace is:
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not joke telling
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not inefficient use of time
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not disregard for respect or authority
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not disregard for the seriousness of the business you're in
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It is rather the realization
of the value of laughter to physical and mental
health - it's about being OK to laugh and allow
laughter as the natural humor that occurs daily
around us in our business - it's about reduced
tension and stress, increased efficiency, attendance,
and retention - and it's about the dangers of
inappropriate humor,
such as sexist or racist humor.
You don't have
to be naturally funny, nor must you know how
to tell jokes. You just need a sense of
humor.
Don't
be like Charlie Brown...
his survival technique is that
he's learned to dread one day at a time!
In my favorite
Jimmy Buffet song, he sings:
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"Changes in latitudes,
changes in attitudes;
Nothing remains the same. |
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With
all of our running, and all of our
cunning,
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go
insane!" |
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He's so right! Our lives, personal and professional, are changing at an incredible rate of speed. We think we're out in front, only to seemingly fall hopelessly behind.
Laughter is our life preserver.
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