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Leadership Through Humorship

According to US studies, Managing Directors and business leaders who use humor effectively in the workplace wield more power and influence than those that don't.

Humor is a creative thinking tool that can be used to enhance your leadership identity and to expand your leadership mission and vision.

This workshop is designed to give leaders a competitive 'Humorcation' edge so they can out-think, out-see, out-perform, out-market and out-live their competition. Humourcation is the combination of humor skills with communication skills, and helps set a positive working atmosphere, motivate people, solve problems, improve workplace communication, reduce conflict, and help with decision making.

Leadership is often hard, lonely, and unappreciated, yet leaders must keep up their enthusiasm and balance - both attitudes of humor.

Humor can be used in task initiative, team integrity, individual tact, showing support, controlling conflict and expressing corporate values. Leadership involves the cultivation of an environment in which freedom and flexibility will flourish. A leader must commit to the striving and servicing of an organization. Humor can be both the avenue for resilience and the expression of adaptability necessary for organizational change in your company.
 

"Science opens to us the book of nature. Humor, the book of Human Nature"

   

A master in the use of humor was Ronald Reagan and he took his humor seriously. His personal joke writer was one of the highest paid in the world. He put together between three to six pages of one-liners each week. These mainly rely on self put-down humor directed at Reagan's age, which was a worrying liability and also a target for quite a few fossil jokes like, "At 76, I am not afraid Reagan will push the button, I am afraid he will keel over and fall on it." In 1984, when he was debating Walter Mondale for the second time, Reagan knew the "age" issue would be brought up and he had his humorous answer ready. It was based on the reversal formula and is already a classic in political humor. It broke the press up and even got a big laugh from Mondale, and according to the magazine "Newsweek", he sealed his election with the following remark, "I will not make an age issue of this campaign, I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience."