Humor and health care? This may seem an odd coupling, but to Ron Culberson and Roz Trieber, healthcare without humor is, well...not funny.
Ron Culberson’s missionis to help healthcare staff and leaders achieve a new level of excellence through humor. He helps them have more FUN while preserving the integrity of the work they do and the lives they lead.
Roz Trieber is a health educator, author, motivational humorist, and cancer survivor who is Dedicated to educating people how to live with cancer and other life challenges and not dying from them.
If Ron and Roz can successfully incorporate humor into their work with healthcare and related organizations (and they can!) surely you can bring some humor into your business presentations.
What's humor? Ron defines it as seeing the funny things in everyday life. Roz sees it as seeing joy and cheer even in experiences that are serious and scary. Both Roz and Ron make it a daily habit to look at life around them and figure out what's humorous or lighthearted about it.
How do you include humor in your business presentations? Do you regard humor as valuable rather than frivolous? Do you give people a pat on the back when they make an observation that makes you chuckle, rather than groaning and embarrassing them? Do you invite dry wit into your boardrooms, and around your conference tables? Is there a place to share cartoons that poke fun at corporate life?
When you as a leader invite, encourage and recognize humor for the value it adds to productivity and loyalty, everyone else in your organization will do their part to bring humor to the workplace. People will do as you do, much more than they'll do as you say. If you want to encourage humor you must bring humor in yourself.
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Thank you Susan for bringing the value of humor as a life skill to your susbscribers. Yes, developing or re-discovering your sense of humor and using it appropriately in your personal and professional life provides opportunities for stress and tension reduction.creates cohesion, and improves our leadership skills. When you can accept life's challenges with a sense of humor, you are able to get emotional distance, realize you can choose your approach to solving your problems, and still laugh about them. You realize you have a sense of control over your life. There is healing power in humor and laughter. It lifts our spirits and we live with joy another day.
As a cancer survivor, I find time to play or laugh daily. When I am engaged in play or watching a comedy just for the sake of enjoyment, I am energized and full of good feelings. There is no judgment about my health situation or is there busy chatter going on in my head. I am totally present in those very fun moments. "How great it is!"
Roz Trieber
Posted by: Roz | July 11, 2008 at 06:22 PM