Energize and Motivate Your Team

Course ID: 302                         Course Length: 1 day(s)

Overview:

Do you and your team need a shot in the arm? If so, laughter is still the best medicine and more employers are learning to incorporate fun into the workplace. Humor reduces stress, leads to increased creativity, and steps up morale. This seminar will give you, your team, and everyone in the organization practical guidelines to introduce fun on the job. Humor stimulates creative thinking and fresh ideas, both of which energizes and motivates employees which in turn, increases productivity. You'll be amazed at the difference a little laughter will make to the bottom line.

Objectives:
At the end of the workshop participants should be able to:

• Know when and how to lighten up
• Avoid "terminal professionalism"
• Reduce stress through humor
• Take their work seriously but themselves lightly
• Set an example for co-workers
• Understand the relation between humor, creativity,
  and productivity

Topics:

• Myths about humor in the workplace
• Humor and health
• Laugh and the world laughs with you
• Grin and share it vs. grim and bear it
• The universality of laughter
• It's OK to be silly
• How laughter helps in negative situations
• Humor as an energizer
• "Humaerobics"
• Brainstorm for ways to have fun
• Strategies for using appropriate fun in the workplace
• From ho-hum to ho-ho

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