Laughter is often said to be the best medicine, and there’s no denying its ability to bring people together, reduce stress, and improve mood. But
In a previous article, “The 3 Huge Mistakes Leaders Make with Humour — and How to Avoid Them“, we discussed a common error: randomly adding
Humour is an invaluable tool in the workplace, especially for leaders and professionals looking to elevate their teams. With Comic Intelligence, you can strategically use
Workplace humour is an important key to outstanding leadership. As business leaders and managers, using humour in the workplace can build trust, strengthen employee engagement, unleash more creativity in the team, and build a more resilient company culture.
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?
Do you want to be funny and use humour to engage your clients better? But are you worried people won’t take you seriously?
You’re right to worry.
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.
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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