10 Essential Ways in Using Humor on Leadership
10 Essential Ways in Using Humor on Leadership
Getting to the funny side of life, citing jokes and being a comedian sometimes can offer great self-rewards. A person laughing for 20 minutes consumes the same amount of energy he/she disposes during a 3 minute of intense arguments. According to Robert Half International research 84% of directors think that a worker who knows how to look inside the fun side of life carry-out his work effectively than those who do not know how. Adopting humor in a very serious place like the office can ease heavy loads of work, as well as lessens arguments circling inside the work areas. A person who knows how to be funny or even hilarious sometimes is more likely to form new ideas and has the ability to create harmony and build connections on his workers, plus be a worthy leader. Given that in mind, you should develop your ability being a comedian. As a matter of fact, here are 10 essential tips on how to be effectively humorous by David Letterman.
#10. Reflect your Life and Look for Happiness
There’s happiness everyday, what you need is to constantly look for it. You may not be aware of it but sometimes it’s just sitting outside your window. Find happiness in what you do.
They say that happiness can be found thru helping others. That’s true. All you need is to meet new people and gain new friends. You can learn advice from the bookHow to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Did you know that children can laugh 400 times a day, unlike adults who can only laugh 15 times daily? Try to make it 40, at least you’re 10% there to laughing 400 times a day like kids do.
The effortless way to laugh is to read comic strips, joke books and hilarious notes.
Try to look for funny instances even during tight circumstances.
#9. Take a Mental Note of What Makes you Laugh
Assuming that you are aiming to laugh 40 times a day then you must figure out the things or instances that drive you laughing out loud. Make a list of things that make you laugh. Let’s assume that there are 107 reasons that make you laugh try to make the number hilarious and don’t be fixed with 100 reasons only. 107 are much better.
13 Comedy Flicks
11 Funny TV Programs
5 Hilarious Phrases
19 Jester Stories
5 Comical Cartoons
7 Very Funny Audio and Video
11 Entertaining Comedian
7 Humorous TV Personalities
7 Laughable Photos
7 People You Know that are Terribly Funny or have funny faces
15 Amusing things
TOTAL = 107 Funny and Humorous Things
Keep this funny ideas coming and read them whenever you feel like laughing or need something to make you smile.
#8. Make Use of your Personal Funny Moments and Experience
Real-life experiences are great source on how to be a competent leader. Search for funny instances in your personal experiences, such as:
Humorous ideas that have been mentioned and retold by others
Mental, physical and interpersonal pratfalls
Awkward moments in life or sudden occurrences that befall on unlikely situations
Certain instances when you were still learning or adapting to certain environment
Tight and complex chapters of your life
Difficult situations can be altered with funny ones thru adapting those you have learned back in childhood. Like those knock-knock jokes that simply made you laugh, by pointing out familiar events in life, picking out suitable words and phrases, as well as noting when to laugh. Knock-knock jokes are funnier when it comes surprisingly. You laugh for the fact that you were thinking of an answer which you don’t really know even though it’s right before you.
#7. Learn from others and Implement it
Aside from your own funny experiences there are those experiences by others; it’s a continual tradition of borrowing and adapting to jokes and humorous situations made by others. There are so many ways where we can get this funny ideas and things which some of us don’t pay attention. These humors can be found in pictures, videos, text and contents. There’s more! They can also be found at:
Cartoons – You can mimic the cartoon’s character, way of speaking as well as action and several styles of moving.
Comedians – You can learn a lot from watching a comedian, from his way of talking and delivering funny phrases to making faces. It’s important to learn from these people for you to be effectively and professionally funny.
#6. Determine your Audience
Make sure you know when to crack a joke and when it is not suitable. Thus, it is essential to determine your audience perspective so you could choose which joke you can deliver.
Take consider of the administration’s approach toward humor
Get to know your audience structure since this can influence humor that will be used
Care and appreciation for your audience is much important than making fun of them
Encourage others to have fun or get into humor since you don’t know either they have sense of humor themselves
Practice using ad lib on your audience but make sure you know how to insert ad lib properly. It is essential to know these ad libs well so that you’ll never get wrong from using them. You can even rehearse before delivering ad libs. You can try “funny” feedbacks and implement purposed ad libs.
#5. Get to know certain Regulations and Limits in using Humor
Be aware of particular humors to be used in the work areas. There are certain jokes, pranks, and comments regarding religion, sex, and ethnicity and racial which are risky to use. Thus, it is advisable to avoid threading these kinds of humor at work because it could affect your career.
There are certain points to remember to stay ‘safe’ when using humor at work. Basically, statements should be true if it pertains to a joke, comment or picture.
Make sure you can tell that joke, comment or show that image to your mother
You wouldn’t get angry if you’re the one they joke about
Be certain that your joke won’t generate any FCC violation
Lastly, everyone can relate to your humor styles
Moderate your concept or much better, revise or make a new one.
#4. Suit Yourself
An effective leader knows how to look at the funny side of line. They can laugh freely and tends to drive laughter to others. Leaders should know how to use self-insulting humor properly; these are self-insulting humor which can downplay their own talents, qualifications, awards and accomplishments.
Don’t use self-deprecating humor; however you can use this type of humor at appropriate times. These include:
Instances when you are confident and self-assured
Parts when your qualifications and skill are tested or proven
Manners that suits your own character and feeling
Assuming that you are adapting other’s self-insulting humor, be sure that you know what their views are in certain instances. For instance, a non-technical Marketing VP call out “data geeks” in the audience for her goal to establish a connection failed.
#3. Search for Humor Ideas Everywhere
Your workplace is the best source of humor since it is filled with different people of different characters. You can find a lot of humor from certain situations in wordplay, misunderstandings, vagueness, paradoxes, pain and inconsistencies. Assuming that you work in this type of industry, you’ll surely find a lot of humor.
Being a leader, it’s your responsibility to make use of chances and promote humor effectively thru:
Making your sense of humor good to others
Avoid using humor that hurt in the industry
Don’t use humor when you are restless or stressed, it can cause a very obvious nastiness
#2. Spread Happiness All Around
The key to being happy in your leadership position is by having happy people around you. These means that you have to mingle with people who are funny, knows how to throw laughter and constantly encourage other people to be happy. Develop relationships with these happy people. Make time with them. Know how they have successfully used humor and borrow these ways that suits you. Aside from spending happy times with these people, pick 3-4 persons and create a casual comedy team out of them. Collect their feedback that can help you in making new humor ideas as well as revise new ones. You can find several humor ideas which can pass the ‘safe’ test set, however those are not suitable for audience.
#1. Splurge into the Fun
The key to effectively using humor as a leader is thru distributing it in your work areas. However, there are certain things to remember:
Rehearse or exercise you humor to determine which environment best suits it. Thus, you can take it to larger group of people.
Make gestures when to laugh in your words, actions and tone of speaking. This will permit people to laugh in the workplace.
Lastly, be sincere in adopting humor thru putting fun and reduce burden at workplace, that would be much fun than laughter.
