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1. Office Practical Jokes

2. Don’t Try To Be Funny. Please.

3. Cool Links to Even More Humor!

Office Practical Jokes

Safe Jokes Can Improve Your Day. (Mean ones can get you fired.)

Those of you who know me know that I love practical jokes. But only some jokes. For me, the only practical jokes to consider are safe practical jokes; victimless practical jokes.

How do you know you’re on the right track?

If your “victim” ends up with mud on her face, is totally embarrassed, or it ends up costing him significant money then your joke is no good.

But if your joke brings more laughter and happiness, then you’re

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End the Lousy Meetings! And Earn My Book… My Treat!

If your meetings seem to drag on and on… before they even start… then perhaps a great ice breaker would help. The basic idea is this: Cut out some photos from a news magazine, or from the internet, or… you get the idea. Then you encourage the group to come up with as many possible captions for that photo as possible. Don’t shoot for funny captions, just go for a LOT of captions. You’ll be surprised how many of the captions are genuinely funny. I can’t stress enough how if you try to make

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Celebrate Every Day with Garden Gnomes

After recently speaking to a group of fine folks, I left with a killer idea about how to use a tad more humor while at the same time boosting your company’s morale. The short story is that they have a Gnome that travels to a new desk every couple of months based on who has done something extraordinary. Yes, an ordinary garden gnome to celebrate the extraordinary. The beauty of this killer idea is that it doesn’t only reward top achievers. It could also be used to reward people who “finally cleaned up the snack room,” or were simply

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Here is the chapter you requested called Humor Is A Business Word. (It’s part of my book, Humor Us.)

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Are you a believer in the power of levity and lightheartedness and its ability to help your organization get to where it deserves to be? Are you having trouble convincing the masses? Give us a call. We can help.

Brad Montgomery, Motivational

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Six Easy Sure-Fire Techniques For Adding Humor to Your Life — This Week!

1. Listen to funny stuff. Buy some CDs of comedians and pop them in your car on the way to work. I love to listen to the CDs several times. The first couple of times I just laugh. And then the next couple of times I try to understand why the jokes are funny; why they make me laugh. By studying the form of the jokes, I internalize some of the techniques and find myself using the same techniques with my friends, my family — and my audiences.

Bonus tip: Used CD

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Newsletters and Change.

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Humor & Change?

I get at least three calls a week from clients whose organizations are struggling with change. The hardest part isn’t understanding their difficulties with managing change, empathizing with their team, and knowing what we might do to help. The problem is not laughing. Let me explain:

Everybody is experiencing change. Either your job is changing, your bosses are changing, you’re out of a job, or you’re afraid of being out of a job. Your sales are down or they are up.

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Bad is the New Good

From the dawn of time, man has sought to minimize pain and maximize joy.   If it hurts, it must be bad;  stop doing it.  If it feels good, it must be good;  do it more.  This strategy probably worked great for our cave-dwelling ancestors, and it works great for my neighbor’s dog who wears a shock collar, but for the rest of us we should consider embracing the possibility that many things that appear painful might actually make us happier.

We spend a lot of time avoiding bad outcomes.   We fail to take risks at work because it’s safer. We fail to take chances with personal relationships to avoid the pain