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501 Ways to Use Humor to Beat Stress, Increase Productivity and Have Fun at Work
Are you stressed out at work? Do you feel like you're in a rut? Are you looking for a way to step up your game? Do you realize that you spend nearly 50% of your waking hours at your job and therefore want to learn to enjoy it more?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above (or just want to learn how to use humor in the workplace), this book is for you.
In it, you'll find ideas on how to use humor to improve communication skills, build stronger relationships, enhance creative problem-solving, execute more effectively and strategically disengage.
This smorgasbord of humor ways range from presentation tips to team-building activities, brainstorming methods to productivity tricks, stress relievers to ________ (fill in the blank because this book covers just about everything).
Ready to get started? Why not:
#22 - Begin your next email with a unique salutation, like "Greetings Fellow Humans."
#267 - Create a Bat Signal for users to use whenever they need support.
#421 - Hold a "dramatic reading" in the office of a company memo or quarterly earnings report.
If you answered "yes" to any of the above (or just want to learn how to use humor in the workplace), this book is for you.
In it, you'll find ideas on how to use humor to improve communication skills, build stronger relationships, enhance creative problem-solving, execute more effectively and strategically disengage.
This smorgasbord of humor ways range from presentation tips to team-building activities, brainstorming methods to productivity tricks, stress relievers to ________ (fill in the blank because this book covers just about everything).
Ready to get started? Why not:
#22 - Begin your next email with a unique salutation, like "Greetings Fellow Humans."
#267 - Create a Bat Signal for users to use whenever they need support.
#421 - Hold a "dramatic reading" in the office of a company memo or quarterly earnings report.
- GenresNonfictionHumor
292 pages, Paperback
First published November 11, 2012
About the author
Andrew Tarvin
10 books44 followersAndrew Tarvin is obsessed with efficiency. In fact, that's why he goes by Drew Tarvin, it's more efficient. As the world's first humor engineer, he teaches people how to get better results while having more fun. Combining his background as a project manager at Procter & Gamble with his experience as a stand-up comedian, he reverse-engineers the skill of humor in a way that is practical, actionable, and gets results in the workplace.
Through his company, Humor That Works, Dew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association of Canine Professionals. He is the bestselling author of three books, including Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and FastCompany and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than four million times. He loves the color orange and is obsessed with chocolate.
For more, visit drewtarvin.com.
Through his company, Humor That Works, Dew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association of Canine Professionals. He is the bestselling author of three books, including Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and FastCompany and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than four million times. He loves the color orange and is obsessed with chocolate.
For more, visit drewtarvin.com.
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February 17, 2019
Fun and useful read
Very easy read, full of practical suggestions to improve your day-to-day at work and overall a great book on humor.
Very easy read, full of practical suggestions to improve your day-to-day at work and overall a great book on humor.
February 14, 2022
Some great ideas in these pages.
June 24, 2018
A week ago I gave it 4 stars. Now I've finished reading it and 3 stars look like a fair max for the overall experience.
[+] Some points made me laugh. Some inspired. (The book is not a "Harry Potter" or a "Sherlock Holmes". It's a list of ideas. And some are worth reading.)
[+] The book could be an example of the converted blog posts entitled "X things about ...".
[+] Lots of links as a follow-up(s) items.
[-] I feel that that book is shallow and not so factual. For example "5,100 patents" - mentioned in the book. Dyson did not developed 5,100 patents before his giant success story. Yet. Mr Dyson spent 15 years and made more than 5,127 prototypes to design his success (cleaner).
[-] Not too many laughing points (for my sense of humour).
[-] Too many footnotes.
[+] Some points made me laugh. Some inspired. (The book is not a "Harry Potter" or a "Sherlock Holmes". It's a list of ideas. And some are worth reading.)
[+] The book could be an example of the converted blog posts entitled "X things about ...".
[+] Lots of links as a follow-up(s) items.
[-] I feel that that book is shallow and not so factual. For example "5,100 patents" - mentioned in the book. Dyson did not developed 5,100 patents before his giant success story. Yet. Mr Dyson spent 15 years and made more than 5,127 prototypes to design his success (cleaner).
[-] Not too many laughing points (for my sense of humour).
[-] Too many footnotes.
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