Humor For Personal Success: Warrior Mind Podcast #182
This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on the post “Humor and Personal Success.”
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The purpose of this Warrior Mind Podcast is to persuade you to your sense of humor as a strategy to achieve personal success
“Did you hear the one about the manager who got a bigger bonus because he had a great sense of humor?”
You probably haven’t heard this one making the rounds at the water cooler, because it’s not a joke. It’s actually one finding from a study by researcher Fabio Sala—a consultant with the Hay Group’s McClelland Centre for Research and Innovation—who found a positive correlation between the size of executives’ bonuses and their use of humor. The study also found that outstanding executives use humor more than twice as often as the so-called average executives.
Studies like this point to a growing consensus that if you are serious about your career, then sometimes it pays to not be serious. At least, not too serious. Not when a healthy sense of humor can help you manage stress, spark creativity, build relationships, communicate more effectively, and stand out from the herd – not to mention earn you a bigger bonus or more income.
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So does all this suggest you need to sign up for a stand-up comedy class or turn into the office joker? Not at all. Demonstrating a healthy sense of humor is rarely about telling jokes, and it certainly isn’t about becoming the class clown. In fact, misusing humor is also a terrific way to get yourself noticed (and not in a good way).
They key is to practice “safe humor”: humor that builds rather than divides relationships, humor that laughs with people, not at people. For as much as humor can be a beneficial career skill, we all learn at an early age that humor is also a powerful weapon—a favorite of schoolyard bullies.
Therefore, offensive humor—such as sexist or racist jokes—is strictly off-limits during work hours. Sarcastic or bullying humor can also be career-damaging, and many practical jokes have resulted in lawsuits (as in the case of the employee who brought laxative-filled brownies to the office) or outright dismissal.
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