{"product_id":"9780982387108","title":"Top Secret Tips For Successful Humor In The Workplace","description":"\"The definitive guide for injecting humor into the workplace. This is the ultimate step-by-step manual, designed to give you control over your work culture. With humor, laughter, and play, you can create a work environment that will attract the very best people and coax the very best performances out of them.\"\u003cbr\u003eKARYN BUXMAN, President, Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, and Publisher, The Journal of Nursing Jocularity. \u003cp\u003eThis is your manual for infusing humor into your business, corporation, college, or university to create a fun work environment. You are probably laughing right now and thinking: Fun in my organization? You must be kidding. You do not know the people I work with. They end sentences with prepositions all the time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is written expressly for corporate leaders, such as HR directors, managers, and trainers, and college administrators and faculty. Unlike available books on the topic, this one reveals 45 tips that are critical to the success of humor in the workplace and in the classroom, K-college: choosing the right stuff, delivering humor like a pro, practicing your performance, considering the most important characteristics of your audience, and creating an atmosphere conducive to fun. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author presents specific guidelines for setting standards for appropriate humor and also out-of-bounds offensive humor, such as put-downs, sarcasm, ridicule, and sexual content and innuendo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these turbulent financial times, can you afford to ignore the bottom line? Humor can boost productivity, increase retention, improve recruitment, decrease absenteeism, improve morale, and decrease stress, tension, and anxiety, plus 20 other individual and relational benefits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a WIN-WIN proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA BONUS CHAPTER is also included on how to create TV, movie, and Broadway parodies you can use in meetings, workshops, team-building exercises, and teaching and training.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coventry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035643527408,"sku":"9780982387108","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982387108_p0.jpg?v=1763884962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982387108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}