Putting Fun To Work in Your Training, Event, or Work Culture
Humor helps people learn and work together more effectively. A fun, exciting workplace where people love to work is a very productive workplace.
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Why Humor Is Good For Work
It has been shown that humor helps people cope with difficult issues at work, from stress and change, to communication, conflict and dealing with difficult people. In addition, humor is good for creativity. It enhances peopleâs ability to think freely, generate new ideas, and solve complex problems sometimes with sudden insight or unusual approaches.
An organizational culture that doesn't take itself too seriously ensures better employee relations and teamwork, and make it easier for people to challenge entrenched systems, old habits and obsolete procedures. It is also a culture that eliminates fear, making it less likely that an Enron-type of an oppressive, corrupt culture dominates.
John Cleese, the wickedly funny English comedian, recalls the Dalai Lama as telling him that laughter is good for thinking because "when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds."
Trainers use humor to point out negative behaviors in ways that teach rather than preach.
Mediators tell us that the right joke, or the right moment of levity, can reduce tensions to the point that two adversaries can sit down at the table to consider the possibility of agreement.
So why does humor work? Because it shatters preconceptions at the moment when people are forming new perceptions about their work, their spouse, or life itself. Laughter is a release; it is a moment of sheer pleasure. And in our world of tension and turmoil, the belly laugh is a physical escape valve. So for best organizational performance, encourage people to laugh and have fun at work.
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Smile! The New Video about the Bus Driver Seattle Is Talking About - Free Preview
Reggie Wilson drives a bus in Seattle. It's a thankless job filled with stress, time pressures and difficult customers. So, why does he love it? And, why would busy people actually wait for him to serve them? Because Reggie is a happy employee who makes his customers smile!
Sincerity - Motivation - Integrity - Laughter - Enthusiasm...
These principles are the key to how Reggie keeps a positive attitude as he delivers the best service possible to his customers. He even sings about it! The SMILE! song is now a regular feature on the #27 from downtown Seattle to Coleman Park. The SMILE! video is the real thing.
Reggie Wilson is a real bus driver, and passengers really do wait for his bus. In fact, during taping, many people called to appear in the video because they wanted to support Reggie.
One woman told a very personal story about the time she was on her way home from the hospital after a chemo appointment. She was weak and yet she braved the rain, waiting an extra 20 minutes for Reggie's bus. She said that the energy he gave her and the happiness she felt that day made a big difference in her recovery. Just one of many experiences people shared during the making of SMILE! "The video is great fun! I'm calling it FISH on a bus! I hope to take a ride on Reggie's bus sometime! But seriously, SMILE! is extending the value we got from FISH, thank you. " HR- Training, Gov't. agency
"I enjoy the program a great deal. I use it in my orientation program during that dull time after lunch. It picks everyone up and we have a great time. Reggie is such an engaging character that it's almost impossible not to get involved with the video. By the time I have people moving their chairs and singing, they are ready to meet Reggie. We set up the chairs in rows with an aisle- just like a bus- and we sing along. I think the concepts are clear and clearly presented. Oh, and we all wear the SMILE! buttons, too!" Candy Gusst, Director, Training, Beneficial Savings Bank
I did the training yesterday with a mixed group of frontline employees. The video was a hit. Group discussions revolved around people taking responsibility for their own attitudes. I would say that the main learning point, for this group, was that they have control over how their day goes. This was a novel idea for many of them. I was happy to see some lights go on." Daphne Wright, Director- Training and Education, South Georgia Medical Center
The SMILE! training package includes: One 12 minute video / One 25 page Facilitator's Guide complete with large group and small group exercises, participant sheets (reproducible) and background articles about the Inside-Out Model for Customer Service, creating joy at work and the value of laughter at work. 10 - Buttons (just like Reggie's SMILE sign)
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Who's On First? A Video for Your Meeting or Training
Abbott and Costello's famous routine--the only comedy routine in the Baseball Hall of Fame--is a wonderful way to begin any session on communication skills, listening, conflict resolution, teamwork, and more!
Produced by Salenger. / 8 min. Includes Leader's Guide.
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Excuses. Excuses. Do You Hear These Ones at Work?
When the corporate culture becomes one of excuses like the above nothing worthwhile gets done, and the organization's strategic objectives fail to materialize. In this kind of culture, people resort to absolving themselves of responsibility by blaming others and using excuses for inaction.
Effective leaders know that they must act to turn around this kind of culture, and create a culture of responsibility and innovation. This cannot happen by an executive memo ordering the change in people's thinking and acting. It takes involving and listening to employees, caring about them, and enlisting them in a great vision to achieve a worthwhile purpose.
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YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN IN CORPORATE AMERICA FOR TOO LONG WHEN...
Here is something to help you laugh at the corporate language pervasive in many organizations today. While laughing at this corporate-talk, don't forget that the reason you laugh is that these terms have been so over used and abused that their meaning has been lost and even reversed. So it's time to think about them before using them again:
YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN IN CORPORATE AMERICA FOR TOO LONG WHEN...
- You ask the waiter what the restaurant's core competencies are.
- You decide to re-org your family into a "team-based organization."
- You can spell "paradigm."
- You actually know what a paradigm is.
- You write executive summaries on your love letters.
- Your Valentine's Day cards have bullet points.
- You celebrate your wedding anniversary by conducting a performance review.
- You talk to the waiter about process flow when dinner arrives late.
- You use the term "value-added" without falling down laughing.
- You give your girlfriend/ boyfriend a golden handshake on the way out!
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