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Humor in the Workplace

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Communication Skills Courses Productivity Courses Nonverbal Communication Courses Team Dynamics Courses

Course Description

Overview

Bring the power of humor into your workplace to help collaboration and drive results.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What's different about this course?
  • Humor in the workplace
  • Roles of humor in society
1. Why We Laugh
  • Surprise
  • Biology
  • Superiority
  • Psychoanalysis
2. Reasons for Humor
  • Humor as protection
  • Humor as a weapon
  • Humor as a connection
  • Humor as a spotlight
3. Humor Strategies
  • Shifting perspectives through humor
  • Releasing tension and other effects on the body
  • Making connections and coping with fear
  • Looking at humor and the four quadrants of well-being
4. Tips and Techniques
  • Using nonverbal humor
  • Expanding your humor skill set
  • Building your personal humor profile
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Izzy Gesell

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