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Leading with Laughter: Using Humour to Reduce Stress and Boost Performance
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
12:00 Pm TO 1:45 Pm (Eastern Time)
Summary
Leaders with a sense of humour are not only seen as more competent and more motivating, but they also have higher levels of employee engagement and are more likely to solve complex problems creatively. Humour increases social connection and reduces the hierarchical distance between leaders and their teams. You might be thinking “It would be much easier to use humour, if my job wasn't so stressful!” Believe it or not, one of the most effective tools to decrease stress and enhance overall wellbeing is… your sense of humour!
This content-rich session not only provides the foundation of why humour is such an effective leadership trait, but also how to incorporate more humour into your leadership style and everyday life. Using a combination of proven strategies & research from positive psychology, neuroscience, cognitive behavioral techniques, and improv & stand-up comedy, you’ll learn evidence-based techniques for how you can develop your sense of humour into a powerful leadership tool to enhance well-being and boost performance!
Participant Objectives:
- Identify at least 10 ways to reduce stress using humour intervention strategies;
- Practice humour intervention strategies to boost resilience;
- Discover the impacts of humour on the brain and body;
- Learn strategies for using humour in personal or professional settings.
Link to TEDx Talk: Paul Osincup TEDx: Humor in Leadership
NOTE: This is a North American HR Leadership Network (NAHRLN) event.
Speaker(s)
Paul Osincup, Humor Strategist
Paul Osincup is a Humor Strategist who helps organizations create happier, healthier, and more connected places to work. Paul’s global mission for workplace happiness has provided him the opportunity to work with hundreds of organizations including the Harvard Kennedy School of Leadership, Google, Discover, and The U.S. Air Force. He’s a content creator for the emotional health and well-being app Happify, and his TEDx Talk on Humor in Leadership has been viewed over a half million times. Paul is a certified Stress Mastery Educator with the American Institute of Stress and the past President of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, an international organization dedicated to the study and application of humor to enhance health and human performance. Paul’s work has been highlighted in The New York Times, Forbes, and on his mom’s refrigerator.
Registration
Members of the Strategic Capability Network may attend this event at no cost, we just ask that you register.
Non-Members and Member Guests are charged a fee of $75.00 + HST per registration. Should the non-member or guest subsequently decide to join, the non-member registration fee can be deducted from the membership dues.