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50 Ways To Use Humor in The Workplace

The document outlines various strategies for incorporating humor into training sessions to enhance engagement and communication. It provides a comprehensive action sheet with 50 actionable tips, such as using games, interactive exercises, and personal anecdotes to foster a fun learning environment. The emphasis is on creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages participation and connection among participants.

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50 Ways To Use Humor in The Workplace

The document outlines various strategies for incorporating humor into training sessions to enhance engagement and communication. It provides a comprehensive action sheet with 50 actionable tips, such as using games, interactive exercises, and personal anecdotes to foster a fun learning environment. The emphasis is on creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages participation and connection among participants.

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Using Humor In Training to Engage Your Audience

with Andrew Tarvin

Benefits of Humor in Training


Action Sheet
Execute Think Communicate Connect Lead

1. Turn an everyday task 11. Find (or create) an image 21. Turn on webcams 31. Wear name badges in 41. Tell a self-deprecating
into a game of some sort. to represent the problem when working remotely. large groups. Include fun joke to reduce status
you are trying to solve. personal facts on them. differentials.
2. Create a to-don’t list of 22. Say “hello” in a
tasks you won’t do. 12. Translate your problem different language each 32. Play 2 Truths and a Lie 42. Use off-the-cuff, playful
statement into a different time you answer the at your next meeting.12 humor at the beginning of
3. Try the Pomodoro language and back again. phone.7 a meeting.
Technique and work in 33. Host a speed
increments of 25/5.1 13. Watch comedy clips 23. Start your emails with networking event to meet 43. Share what your
before brainstorming.4 a unique salutation, for people.13 passions are outside of
4. Change your desktop example, “Hello, Fellow work.
background to a 14. Warm up your brain 34. Answer a question with
Humans.”
motivational picture. with a crossword puzzle. a personal story that is 44. Include “fun at work”
24. Hide a message in your relevant and fun. as a metric on employee
5. Have “standing only” 15. Practice improv to
email using the first letter surveys.
meetings.2 build a “yes, and…” 35. Use your next team-
of each paragraph.8
mindset. building event to give back 45. Encourage humor use
6. Listen to a comedy 25. Emphasize key points to the community. by actually laughing.
podcast as a way to relieve 16. Ask yourself, “What
in training by using
stress. would X do,” where X = a 36. Begin your next 46. Add humor awards as
interactive exercises.
role model of yours.5 meeting with a get-to- formal recognition.14
7. Read emails in a 26. Lead a presentation know-you-type question.
different accent in your 17. Flip a coin. Notice what 47. Teach people the value
using only images as slides
head. you secretly hope is the of humor by giving them
(no text).
result of the coin flip. this sheet.

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8. Play “Mary Had a Little 18. Create a “bat signal” 27. Lessen confusion and 37. Set out a bowl of candy 48. Defuse tension with
Lamb” on your touchtone for users to use when they explain a topic as if the on your desk; share it with an observational remark
phone while waiting for a need support. learner was five years old.9 people who stop by. when tensions are high.
call to start.3
19. Track interesting 28. Offer fill-in-the-blank 38. When starting a new 49. Lead by example by
9. Send out meeting invites stats from your project to worksheets that use funny project, create nicknames actually doing one of these
as if they were invitations include in your review.6 examples.10 for each team member. suggestions.
to a rockin’ party.
20. Include fun questions 29. If using footnotes, add 39. Give people a high five 50. Smile. That’s it, just
10. Toss a ball (real or when gathering feedback a few for humor.11 when you pass them in the smile.15
imaginary) during your from surveys. hallway.
one-on-one meeting. 30. Include a joke in the See footnotes and more
fine print of a disclaimer. 40. Start a slow clap to below.
celebrate a peer’s success.

Footnotes
1. Check out pomodorotechnique.com for more information. 10. Worksheets have been shown to improve retention of information.*
2 .No sitting is allowed. If you want even shorter meetings, try 11. A hilarious guy named Andrew Tarvin came up with this.
“dancing only” meetings. 12. It’s a simple game. Each person takes a turn stating three things about
3. The “notes” are 6 5 4 5 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 8 8 / 6 5 4 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 6 5 4. themselves. Two of the things are true. One is a lie. It’s up to everyone else to try
to guess which one is the lie.
4. Watching humorous videos before problem-solving has been shown to increase
creativity.* 13. Speed networking is like speed dating, except the goal is to make business
introductions, not romantic ones.
5. Some good people to consider: Lincoln, Buffett, Spider-Man.
14. You can include things like “Best Email” or create custom categories such as
6. Some of my favorite stats: number of emails sent, number of meetings, time “Most Likely to Say ‘Leverage.’”
spent in each phase, number of curse words provoked by project.
15. Studies show that simply smiling can reduce stress.
7. Here are some examples to get started: hola (Spanish), salut
*For sources, check out htww.co/50ways.
(French), kumusta (Filipino), shacha (Vulcan).
8. Did you notice the message using the first letters of numbers 24–28?
9. Visit reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive for inspiration.

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