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Title: Managing to Have Fun


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Managing to Have Fun
  • presented by
  • Scott Erickson

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Your job in this workshop
  • Take extremely detailed notes - and get it right
    the first time! If I have to repeat myself, it
    will cost you 25 questions are 50 each
  • Be prepared to repeat the entire presentation
    verbatim to your colleagues back at work.
  • Do not, under any circumstances, enjoy yourself!

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  • Work is serious seriously!

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Opposition to Fun and Humour
  • Laughter, fun and play in the workplace is seen
    as unadult, unintelligent and unprofessional.
  • Fear of idleness.

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  • Work is serious seriously!
  • And thats not funny!

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The Power of Humour
  • It makes people happy
  • Happy people live longer
  • Transforms harmful stress into helpful stress
  • Lightens up the workplace
  • Enhances work relationships.

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The Power of Humour
  • Promotes a positive work attitude,
  • Increases work satisfaction and loyalty,
  • Facilitates team bonding,
  • Enhances creativity and productivity.

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Office Humour Tips
  • Timing important to have fun - but do it too
    often and people wont take you seriously,
  • Keep it reasonably short be aware of your own
    and others time needs to get work done.

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Office Humour Tips, continued
  • Be spontaneous,
  • Laughter smile and laugh, start each meeting
    with a clean and inoffensive joke,
  • Circulate funny cartoons, stories, etc
  • Civility politeness is mandatory in making your
    workplace fun. Say please and thank you as often
    as you can.

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Office Humour Tips, continued
  • To be avoided
  • Sarcasm
  • Political, sexual and religious jokes
  • Racist or sexist jokes, or any that denigrate
    people or groups

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  • Build your own handout

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  • Laughter and fun in work and life
  • 1. Id love for you to tell me about when
    something really funny happened at your office.
    Or even something more everyday funny, a little
    chuckle together.
  • 2. What made it funny? Was it easy or hard for
    you and your coworkers to laugh about it
    together?
  • 3. Does your office culture accept/value laughter
    as much as you would like? Would you like that to
    shift?
  • 4. Where were you the last time you recall
    laughing really hard, a really gut-busting belly
    laugh? Not necessarily only at work, but
    anywhere? What was so funny?  
  • People who make us laugh
  • 5. Who has made you laugh the most?
  • 6. What do you recall about
  • a) Their attitude/willingness to find humour in
    things?
  • b) Their willingness to take risks?
  • c) Their body language? Their eyes? Their actual
    laugh?
  • d) Anything else that made it easy to laugh along
    with them? Selective irreverence perhaps? What
    else?
  • 7. What does this remind you of that could allow
    for more laughter at work?
  • Our relationship with fun/humour
  • 8. Has your relationship with humour gone up and
    down at different times in your career?
  • 9. Are there times you and humour have been more
    distant? Is this okay with you?
  • 10. What may have led to that distance? Stress,
    deadlines, conflict with others (co-workers,
    councillors, ratepayers)? The weather, maybe less
    sleep?
  • 11. Are there times you have been closer friends,
    spending a lot of time together?
  • What allowed for that? How could you foster that
    more in your workday?

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  • Where do mice keep their boats?

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  • Where do mice keep their boats?
  • At the Hickory Dickory Dock!

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  • Takeaways
  • and
  • Feedback

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Employee Assistance Counselling
  • Main Office
  • Family Dynamics
  • 401-393 Portage Ave
  • Winnipeg, MB
  • 204-947-1677
  • 1-800-668-9920

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  • Scott Erickson
  • scottmerickson_at_gmail.com(204) 783-6820

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