Jest Practices: Best Practices for Humor in the Workplace
Most agree that humor in the workplace can have beneficial effects. Yet not all humor is good humor. The challenge: how to interject appropriate humor and fun into our serious jobs without hurting others or seriously undermining the company. When used appropriately, humor can work for you.
Humor that Uploads Also Uplifts
Humor has the power to make people feel special. When you include people in fun it simultaneously improves morale, reduces stress and facilitates team building. With the prevalence of telecommuting and workgroups scattered geographically, the challenge of furthering working relationships, bonding and building camaraderie is real. At one San Francisco Bay Area company a workgroup staged an elaborate Remote Baby Shower. The expectant mother, who was out-of-state, called in for a pre-arranged conference call with her workgroup. When she did…surprise! Everyone was having a party in her honor. They uploaded digital photos of a decorated conference room and each other, and e-mailed sound files with well wishes. Everyone shared in the good cheer. This creative use of technology brought employees closer to each other, figuratively if not literally.
Humor That Brings People Together
Workplaces are full of opportunities to use humor for the benefit of all. Milestones are a natural place to employ humor. Dress like the recipient as a tribute during a surprise birthday party. Other celebrations to mark anniversaries, project completions or similar accomplishments are perfect opportunities to utilize humor. Even surviving certain projects is cause for celebration and fun.
Animated Humor
Many children are mesmerized and delighted by the animated humor that they find in their morning cartoons. The delightful antics of animated characters on the television screen are not lifelike as we know it, but are conceived to be real to children who do not know any better. Children can derive a great amount of love and affection from the animated humor that is exhibited by some of their favorite cartoon characters.
The violent exchanges that occur on the screen when a weekly cartoon program starts, is only animated humor that stresses the plight of the character in the show and is not conceived to be actual violent actions as any adult would know it. The bonks on the head, and the various tackles and chases achieved by Tom and Jerry are some animated humor exhibitions at their finest. Many Mothers come to love those cartoon programs because of the smiles they place on their child’s faces.
Of course, some animated humor might be considered unsuitable for even teens. These programs have still found their way into the world of teens and young adults and the animated humor comments have been integrated into their language. Everyone wanted to know who killed Kenny and the animated humor in South Park eventually got around to letting everyone know.
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