Using Humour in Business: A Strategic Tool for Workplace Success
Humour can do so many things—and it’s great for business, but only when used with business in mind. We’ve all heard that laughter is the
Humour can do so many things—and it’s great for business, but only when used with business in mind. We’ve all heard that laughter is the
Let’s talk about a game-changer in the world of leadership—Comic Intelligence. It’s not your typical workplace humour; it’s a strategic groundbreaking approach that goes beyond
As a comedian and high-performance humour coach, I often get asked the question
“How can I be funnier?”
So in this article, I’m going to share with you one quick tip on how to do precisely that.
In Leadership, humour done wrong can damage our credibility, distract from our message and make it hard for people to take us seriously.
So what do we do instead?
So, you may have heard that I used to be part of a show called the Three Stuffed Mums. The premise of the show was that I was “physically stuffed”, because I had a toddler, Maggie was “mentally stuffed” because she had a teenager and Kehau was an empty nester, and she was telling everyone to “get stuffed!”
People want to be funny for all sorts of reasons when they give business presentations. You may want to use humour to engage your audience more. You may have a boring topic that switches people off, so you want to include humour to liven up the discussion. You may simply want to shift the mood or energy and change it up a little bit so you can have more laughs and fun.
It only takes a quick google search to see the scientifically proven benefits of humour and laughter. And when you are speaking in front of an audience, you want to stack the odds in your favour as much as possible.
Humour has been proven to improve employee health, productivity, and leader effectiveness in the workplace. The benefits of laughter and humour are indisputable, however, humour remains a very underutilised tool in the workplace. Why?
The Australian workforce is overworked, overwhelmed and over it.
I really hate it when people say “laughter is the best medicine.” Because laughing at stuff doesn’t fix anything.
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