Humor, Seriously For Teams
Team-based learning experience delivered directly to each team member through Slack or MSTeams.
The Case for Humor @ Work
We can all confidently say that our global work environment has been a bit…rough, lately.
Human connection, trust and overall mental health in the workplace have steeply declined in just the past few years. Yet, it’s still where (whether virtual or IRL) we spend a majority of our day.
Research shows that humor is a powerful tool to rebuild connections, fuel creativity, improve sales effectiveness, foster team collaboration and cohesion, and bolster resilience.
Sound like something your team could use? Yes. The answer is always yes.
How It Works
In this 3-week virtual learning experience, your team will learn about the power of humor and each other. Each participant will receive private direct messages to help them uncover their personal humor style, while also engaging in a group channel with discussion prompts and exercises.
The messages will feature a combination of audio recordings from the authors and text-based prompts to help your team harness humor to build bonds, defuse tension, boost creativity, and bolster resilience in tough times and beyond. Yes, there will be a beyond.
What Your Team Will Gain
Leadership Skills
Leaders with a sense of humor are seen as 27% more motivating and their employees report feeling 15% more engaged at work.
Influence
Simply adding a lighthearted line in a sales pitch (like “…and I’ll throw in my pet frog”) makes customers willing to pay 18% more.
Creativity
Teams that laugh together before taking on a creativity challenge are more than twice as likely to solve the challenge.
Bonds
Laughter quickens the path to connection, fostering trust between new relationships and improving our satisfaction in existing relationships.
Resilience
Laughter suppresses the release of cortisol, which insulates us from stress and enables us to bounce back more quickly from setbacks.
Confidence
People who use humor appropriately at work enjoy increased perceptions of confidence and competence from colleagues.
The Experts
NAOMI BAGDONAS is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an Executive Coach. She helps leaders be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of change by facilitating interactive sessions for Fortune 100 companies and coaching executives and celebrities for appearances ranging from Saturday Night Live to the Today Show. Formally trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre, Bagdonas performs at comedy venues and teaches improv in San Francisco’s county jail. Her constant stream of foster dogs describe her as gullible and full of treats.
DR. JENNIFER AAKER is the General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a leading expert on how purpose and meaning shape individual choices and how technology can positively impact both human well-being and company growth. Her work has been widely published in leading scientific journals and featured in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Science. A recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award and the MBA Professor of the Year, Aaker counts winning a dance-off in the early 1980s among her greatest feats.
The Experts
NAOMI BAGDONAS is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an Executive Coach. She helps leaders be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of change by facilitating interactive sessions for Fortune 100 companies and coaching executives and celebrities for appearances ranging from Saturday Night Live to the Today Show. Formally trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre, Bagdonas performs at comedy venues and teaches improv in San Francisco’s county jail. Her constant stream of foster dogs describe her as gullible and full of treats.
DR. JENNIFER AAKER is the General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a leading expert on how purpose and meaning shape individual choices and how technology can positively impact both human well-being and company growth. Her work has been widely published in leading scientific journals and featured in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Science. A recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award and the MBA Professor of the Year, Aaker counts winning a dance-off in the early 1980s among her greatest feats.
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