The Three Components of Successfully Using Humor in the Workplace -

The Three Components of Successfully Using Humor in the Workplace - I’ve enjoyed every job I’ve ever had. That’s not to say I’ve had inherently fun jobscart-pusher at a grocery store, order fullfiller in a factory, resident advisor, project manager, speakerbut I have found ways to enjoy all of them. That’s not the case for many people. Fifty-two percent of Americans are unsatisfied with their jobs and more than three-quarters say they would relocate if it meant better vibes at work. What most people don’t realize is that using humor in workplace is an individual choice you make every single day. You are responsible for your own job satisfaction. And if you choose humor, you will be more productive, less stressed, and happier. To effectively use humor in the workplace, follow these three components of the Humor MAP: MEDIUM The medium of humor is all about the how. How is the humor going to be received by the audience? Will it be in a live presentation, pre-recorded on video, or written on a sheet of paper? Depending on the medium, different types of humor are more effective. One type of humor (e.g. music) may be perfect for one medium (aural) but terrible for others (visual). And some of you may be confused by my classification of music as humor. But humor is anything that is comic, absurd, or incongruous that causes amusement. Music can be all three. Take the chorus from this song by Rihanna: Work, work, work, work, work, work You see me I be work, work, work, work, work, work This song was number one in America for nine weeks; it was nominated for two Grammy Awards. It was not because of how the lyrics read on the page. But when you hear Rihanna sing it, that’s a different story. When thinking about your medium, think about how the humor will be experienced. In real-time conversation, you can use jokes or sarcasm because it’s easy to gauge a reaction and your delivery can help show that you’re being facetious. Emails and texts are more easily misconstrued. “I hate you” seems pretty bad. “I hate you!” seems even worse. “I hate you :)” seems flirty. Choose a type of humor that works best for the medium you will use. AUDIENCE The next component of the Humor MAP is the audience, which is all about the who. Who will be the recipient of your humor? What do they know? What do they expect? And what do they need? Understanding this is vital for all communication, not only humor. Had the kidnappers in the movie Taken known what Liam Neeson’s character knew, the movie would have been called Not Taken. You also want to be clear about what your relationship is to the audience. A joke that you make with a coworker you’ve known for fifteen years may be very different than what you might say to a client you’re meeting for the first time. Sometimes the only difference between humor that is successful versus humor that seems aggressive is your relationship with a person. In general, it’s safest to use humor that is positive and inclusive (think fun activity rather than biting sarcasm). If you want to use humor effectively, you have to know your audience. That is the only way you can choose the right type of humor to fulfill your purpose. Otherwise, you run the risk of boring, confusing, alienating, or upsetting them. PURPOSE The final component of the Humor MAP is also the most important because it’s all about the why. Why are you using humor? Is it to increase productivity, expand learning, or develop creativity? Like a five-year-old, you want to understand why, why, why, why, why. Without knowing why you’re using humor, you’re likely to miss the mark and turn people off in the process. If you want to use humor to help people better understand a concept, including an analogy they don’t get won’t help. The humor you decide to use should be aligned with the outcome you hope to achieve. This is also how you avoid being seen as a jester or clown at work. When people see that your humor is directly connected to getting better results, they see its value. It’s not that so-and-so is always cracking jokes, it’s that so-and-so is great at getting people to pay attention or leads these really great meetings or really likes Star Wars. By understanding your Humor MAP, you’ll have a clear idea of what kind of humor to use. And when you’re intentional about the humor you use, you increase the chance that you’ll not only delight your audience but also achieve your goals. This guest post was authored by Andrew Tarvin Andrew Tarvin is the worlds first humor engineer, teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. He is the author of Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work and CEO of Humor That Works, a consultancy for human effectiveness. For more information, please visit, www.drewtarvin.com and connect with him on Twitter, @drewtarvin.

Marc Announces the New Edition of Repurpose Your Career [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Marc Announces the New Edition of Repurpose Your Career [Podcast] - Career Pivot Episode #104 â€" Marc Miller Announces the 2018 RYC Survey and the new Book Release Team and reads from the new edition of Repurpose Your Career. Description In this episode, Marc invites listeners to take the 2018 Repurpose Your Career Survey, to help him make this podcast better with your feedback. He invites you to join pre-release readers of the new edition of Repurpose Your Career to read chapters of the book, give feedback, and review the book on Amazon when it is released. Marc reads Chapter 1 of the new edition. Key Takeaways: [1:12] Marc welcomes you to Episode 104 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [1:25] CareerPivot.com brings you this podcast. CareerPivot.com is one of the very few websites dedicated to those of us in the second half of life in our careers. Take a moment to check out the blog and other resources that are delivered to you, free of charge. [1:43] If you are enjoying this podcast, Marc asks you to share it with like-minded souls. Please subscribe on CareerPivot.com, iTunes, Google Play and the Google Podcasts app, Podbean, Overcast app, TuneIn, Spotify app, or Stitcher. Share it on social media, or just tell your neighbors and colleagues. [2:05] Marc has released the 2018 Repurpose Your Career Podcast Survey. Marc thanks listeners who have already taken the survey. Last year, there were about 30 responses. Marc is hoping for 60 to 100 responses this year, with his larger audience. [2:22] To improve the show, Marc needs to know something about you â€" how you listen to the show; if you read the show notes; what kinds of episodes are your favorites. [2:34] Marc asks if you would kindly go to CareerPivot.com/podcast-survey (where you will be redirected to SurveyMonkey) to take the survey. Marc will publish the results in a couple of months. Marc thanks you in advance for doing this survey for the podcast. Now on to the podcast… Download Link | iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast| Podbean | TuneIn | Overcast [2:57] The Repurpose Your Career podcast will skip a week for Thanksgiving. There will be no podcast next week, to give some folks â€" including Marc â€" a break. The following week, Marc will be interviewing Susan Joyce of Job-Hunt.org fame. [3:20] Job-Hunt.org and Susan have been helping people find jobs since 1998. Marc and Susan will discuss the differences between a reactive and a proactive job search. [3:36] This week, Marc starts the promotion of the next edition of Repurpose Your Career, with a planned release date in the first half of 2019. Marc has been working on the next edition with Susan Lahey, and he will be looking for your help. Marc is forming a release team of readers to read pre-release chapters of the book to provide feedback. [4:00] You can be part of this pre-release team by going to CareerPivot.com/RYCTeam, where you can sign up. When you sign up, you’ll receive pre-release versions of the chapter Marc is reading today, and additional chapters when they become available. [4:22] Marc asks in return that you provide feedback and be prepared to write an Amazon.com book review when the book is released. Marc is not asking you to write a five-star review but your honest review. [4:40] Marc begins reading the opening chapter of the next edition of Repurpose Your Career. [4:48] Finally, we’re at full employment. Unemployment rates are below 4%. Everybody who wants a job, has one, right? Not exactly! That’s what most of the data says, but the data seems to be leaving something out. [5:10] According to the AARP Public Policies Employment Data Digest, most people over 55 who want to be employed are. In fact, the unemployment rate for this age group was only 3% as of April 2018. [5:25] Unemployment numbers are based on how many civilians not employed by an institution, are either working or looking for work. Marc goes to a fair number of jobs clubs for job seekers. The faces he sees there tend to be â€" well, old. Some of that is because these people are part of the long-term unemployed. [5:49] Being unemployed for more than 26 weeks is a real drag on your health and can make you look old. And 22% of unemployed people have been unemployed that long, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But more than a third of long-term unemployed are over 55. [6:09] In Austin (where I live part of the time), the unemployment rate is under 3% â€" unless you happen to be over 50. If you’re over 50, it’s higher than 12%. [6:21] In 2015, The Atlantic published the article “Where not to be Old and Jobless,” which listed Austin as the number four worst place to be old and unemployed, behind San Jose, Cal., El Paso, Tex., and New Haven, Conn. [6:39] Research by AARP shows that there’s a real danger that unemployed people over 50 â€" especially women â€" could become impoverished. So the organization has funded a program at Austin Community College, called Back to Work 50+. It’s a great thing that AARP has funded this program; if we’re at full employment, why is it needed? [7:04] Why are so many people in this age group unsuccessfully looking for work? The statistics they collected don’t include retired people, by the way. While I do know some people who have successfully retired before age 65, most of them are government employees or they retired because either their health or their spouse’s health was poor. [7:30] I know people who gave up looking and just started taking Social Security early. 40% of the people who initiate Social Security do so at age 62. Only 7% wait to take Social Security until the maximum age of 70. This is a real problem. If you take Social Security before your full retirement, you lose a lot. [8:02] If you were born in 1960 and take retirement at 62, you lose 30%. If you were born in 1960 and wait and take your full benefit until 70, you gain 24%. Some people take benefits early and work, too. If you’re doing that and you are under full retirement age for the full year, you lose $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn over the annual limit. [8:33] In 2018, the limit is $17,040. So if you earn $40,000, They’ll take $11,480 out of your retirement benefits. Things have to be pretty rough if you’re willing to lose that much money for the rest of your life. [8:51] Why are so many people over 55 unemployed and looking, compared to the rest of the population? Is it ageism? Is it they don’t have skills for today’s workplace? Or something else? The answer is: Yes. [9:09] Ageism is thriving in places like Austin, where the economy revolves around tech startups. If your skills are up-to-date, you have a solid work history, you’re physically fit, you dress like you know what year it is, you’re not looking or acting old, except for some wrinkles and gray hair, and they don’t hire you, that’s age discrimination. [9:42] I have lots of examples from the CareerPivot Online Community where the members have acquired skills in the latest programming technologies and data science, and still can’t get hiring managers to speak to them. [9:55] Hiring managers don’t want to invest in the careers of people in the second half of life. The reasoning is, they don’t have enough career runway. Considering that most people change jobs every four-and-a-half years, should they be worried about career runway? [10:13] When we are at full employment, should we be worried about having enough career runway? That is an example of ageism. [10:23] However, ageism isn’t always the culprit. If you let yourself and your skills go, it’s something different. A lot of older people try to get by without learning new skills, hoping to coast toward retirement. But in this rapidly-changing environment of creative destruction, their career track may evaporate long before they’re ready to retire. [10:46] In such cases, your experience may not help you get the next job. Think of it like trading in a car. When I traded in my 2003 Honda Element, it didn’t have GPS or Bluetooth. It didn’t have heated seats or any kind of hybrid engine. Plus, it had some wear and tear. It looked like a car that had been on some road trips. [11:10] The dealership offered me a lower price than they charged me for my new car. They discriminated against my Honda Element! If you’re acting like an old curmudgeon, if you’re griping about learning new-fangled technologies, or about the behavior of Millennials, you’re keeping yourself out of the workforce. [11:31] There is no question that we have a skills mismatch in the market. We are seeing creative destruction accelerate through so many industries, eliminating positions of people who’ve honed their skills over decades. I’ve had clients whose whole career worlds disappear in under five years. [11:52] Keeping your skills up is crucial but it’s not enough to keep you employed. You need to be creative. You need to be agile. You need to be ready to reinvent yourself after a few years to match what the market needs. Forget about cruise control It’s time to get a manual transmission and learn how to use it. [12:16] Marti Konstant, author of Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work, said it best. “Adapt or be left behind.” You can plan for a future that will be significantly different from today or be left behind. It’s your choice. [12:39] Many of us want or need to work into our 70s. Working in our 70s will not look like working in our 50s. It will, most likely, be a combination of different types of jobs. You’re looking at multiple part-time jobs; starting a side gig; finding different ways to make money. Many of us don’t think like that. We were raised to be employees. [13:04] We believed that finding a job was the quickest, surest way to security. We’d get in there and stay until we got our gold watch. Today, that ain’t happening! For one thing, it’s tough to get anyone to hire someone in their 60s. Beyond that, these days, even companies can’t promise they’ll be around in five years! Your employer won’t save you. [13:29] You have to get creative. More and more people prefer the self-service options to dealing with a human. And more and more jobs can be done by technology. Among the professions the BLS predicts are on the way out are respiratory therapy techs, computer operators, legal secretaries, and everybody at the Post Office. [13:55] Consider how Uber transformed the taxi industry. How Airbnb transformed the hotel industry. And, how the iPhone has transformed everything since it was invented in 2007. [14:11] Among the things we can now do on our smartphones: banking, sending messages, watching videos, making videos, learning languages, listening to music, scheduling, budgeting, shopping, booking a hotel, booking a flight, finding a date, joining a meeting, getting directions, paying for things â€" and that’s just for starters. [14:35] Because many of these menial tasks have been taken off the table, what remains is often more meaningful. ‘Meaning’ is a key guide to finding your happy place when it comes to ‘work.’ Whatever path you take might disappear in the future, so don’t get hung up on the path. You have to think in terms of constant evolution. [14:59] Several members of the CareerPivot Online Community have taken bold actions to get ready for ‘change.’ One is Mike Martin, a drone pilot instructor, whose story you will learn about later in this book. When Mike started his journey, there was no such thing as drone pilot instructor. [15:18] Camille Knight is a logical creative. She grew up as a dancer and singer. Her first degree was in music and then she went back and got a degree in business. She worked in HR; got spit out of Whole Foods; and reinvented herself as a business analyst. [15:35] She discovered Tableau software that lets her build beautiful dashboards that tell stories. For the first time in her life, she gets to marry both sides of her brain. [15:47] I had a client who said he wanted to be a data scientist and I said, “No, you want to go into a manufacturing site and do scrap analysis.” It’s not enough, just to have a skill; you have to find a company’s pain point; you have to solve a problem. [16:04] We are at an inflection point. You can no longer acquire a skill and be fitted into a job. Things change too fast. If you want to keep on being relevant, you must adapt to the speed of change. You have to find tasks and skills that are meaningful to you and adaptable to new technologies and cultural paradigms â€" or be left behind. [16:30] Be the mentor you want to see in the world. Betty White said Facebook wouldn’t do her any good in terms of helping her to reconnect with old friends; “At my age, if I want to reconnect with old friends, I need a Ouija board.” [16:47] We used to have mentors who could tell us what to do. Chances are, those mentors are retired. There are no coattails for us to ride anymore at this stage. We are the coattails. Much of our network may be gone. We have to forge the path, ourselves. Part of that is taking up the mantle and becoming mentors to younger people. [17:09] Millennials and the generation behind them want mentors. They want help to know how they’re doing. As one Millennial wrote in The Muse, they’ve been conditioned to seek feedback and advice. So, yeah, they want that in their careers, preferably from someone who won’t tell them that they’re entitled, lazy snowflakes. [17:35] In turn, they can help you tap into areas of the work world that might seem foreign to you. In fact, like the fact that there’s a publication called The Muse or, about how to use Instagram to grow your business. [17:52] I know one freelance writer who meets with her mentees frequently for happy hour. Her mentees have introduced her to new markets and gotten her work in places where she would never have thought to have looked. [18:06] In turn, she helps them with strategies for dealing with difficult clients, insights, networking, tactics for time management, and reassurance that being an adult isn’t so scary. [18:17] We’ve entered a new dimension when it comes to ‘work.’ It’s more focused on developing yourself, ongoing, than on sliding into the position as a cog. The idea of getting old, tired, and set in your ways is a recipe for obsolescence. And that’s a good thing. [18:36] Scientists have found if we treat our brain right, our brains can learn and adapt, right up to death. Now, we just have to rethink the second half of life to stay vibrant, connected, and contributing. This should be fun! [18:53] Marc hopes you enjoyed this episode. The world is changing and it’s your responsibility to change with it if you want to stay relevant. [19:04] To get a PDF version of this chapter and to be on the review team, to help Marc with this book, please go to CareerPivot.com/RYCteam to sign up. Marc and Susan will be adding about eight chapters to the book and rewriting several others. [19:25] Marc will release a new chapter on the podcast and to the review team every four to six weeks in the coming months. Marc is considering starting a private Facebook group to discuss this effort. [19:46] Please go to CareerPivot.com/podcast-survey and take the 2018 Repurpose Your Career podcast survey on SurveyMonkey.com. (Marc thanks the listeners who have already taken the survey.) Marc needs to know something about you so he can improve this podcast for you. [20:01] How do you listen to the show? The big question is if you read the Show Notes! (Marc is finding that more than half the listeners taking the survey read the Show Notes.) What kinds of episodes are your favorite? Marc will publish the results of the survey in several months. [20:29] Marc invites you to pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd half of Life, and when you complete reading the book, Marc would appreciate your writing an honest review on Amazon.com. The audio version is available on iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. [20:52] Marc’s plan for the next edition of the book is to release the print, ebook and Audible versions of it at the same time. [21:03] The CareerPivot.com/Community website has become a valuable resource for almost 50 members who are participating in the Beta phase of this project. Marc hopes to exit the Beta phase in the middle of 2019. It is growing slowly. Remember, you are not alone. [21:17] Marc is soliciting members for the next cohort of the CareerPivot.com Online Community. For information, please go to CareerPivot.com/Community. Those in the initial cohorts in the Beta phase get to set the direction for this endeavor. Every two to three months, Marc holds a mastermind group that discusses what to do next. [30:16] Check back in two weeks (after the Thanksgiving break), when Marc will interview Susan Joyce of Job-Hunt.org fame to discuss the difference between a reactive and a proactive job search. Marc Miller Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights! Check out the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...

Dont be late for your interview - Wolfgang Career Executive Coaching

Dont be late for your interview - Wolfgang Career Executive Coaching Just a funny interviewing story from a client. We all have to laugh at ourselves sometimes. Thought youd like it. Have a great day! Coach Wolfgang I had plenty of time to get to my interview or so I thought. The office was downtown that shouldnt have been a problem! The traffic was terrible. The highway was stop and go. I got off the highway early trying to save time on the feeder roads bad idea! Finally got through it. But then the parking! All the construction took out my usual parking spots. So I had to circle and circle and circle.  Finally, I parked but a number of blocks away. At this point, I was on foot.  And late! I knew the cross streets, but when it came time to actually find the front door of the office, it wasnt so easy.  My interview is only 30 minutes so showing up even a few minutes late is going to look bad. I decide that its appropriate to jog.  The entrance to the office isnt apparent, and Im wondering if the address on Google Maps is not the same location as the front door. Im still jogging up and down the block looking for the door. Finally, I make it to the front door and enter my name on their iPad in the lobby.  Moments later, the Vice President pops out and invites me in. I get a quick tour of the place and see a large break room where almost everyone in the company is gathered.  All the developers, executives and other employees are jammed into this room to see the extra-curricular coding projects that people had worked on.  It was a big event with prizes for best project. Presenters got on stage in front of this large window that faced the street the very same window I had just been jogging back and forth in front of! Aagghhhh! was my first thought.  How many people are now recognizing me from my light jog? Was the Vice President Im interviewing with also watching?  Oh dear. It was hard to concentrate during this interview. I think I learned my lesson about preparing my trip and leaving plenty of time. Learn from my experience, and dont be late!

Writing a Resume and Personal Statement For Law School With a Yeshiva Backgound

Writing a Resume and Personal Statement For Law School With a Yeshiva BackgoundWriting a resume and personal statement for law school with a yeshiva background is an interesting concept. This can also help you get scholarships to your chosen field of study.The fact is that, most students go for a career that they are passionate about. Now if you are into law, you must have been exposed to the medical fraternity by reading the newspaper and news channels and have at least had one or two job interviews, before deciding on your profession.If you are not such a physical type, you may want to go for some other option when it comes to writing a resume and personal statement for law school with a yeshiva background. But that is not all. You need to write a resume and personal statement for law school with a yeshiva background in order to prepare yourself for getting scholarships that may enable you to continue in your chosen profession.It is just right to include a personal statement in you r resume. A personal statement is where you describe how you plan to integrate your learning and your knowledge in the current job market. It will help the hiring manager to understand whether you are able to give the services that the organization requires.When writing a resume and personal statement for law school with a yeshiva background, you should be prepared with some notes to list the main things about you. Your first and foremost priority in any job interview or work application is to show your familiarity with the work you have done, or are interested in doing. Also, show a great interest in the organization, its aim and values.Don't forget that you must have taken a course at the institute to achieve your degree. Do a head count of all the courses you have taken. Then, try to find out what courses are still being offered by the organization.References from former students, former faculty members, professors or former employers will also be useful. Writing a resume and per sonal statement for law school with a yeshiva background is also useful for application of recommendations from fellow students. They are more likely to remember you more if you show that you know them personally.Therefore, do not feel that you are following a different direction to achieve your education. Just stay focused on your goals and enjoy the process. After all, you cannot obtain anything without hard work and perseverance.

Writing Your Resume? Great Things You Can Do With Resume Writing in La Verne California

Writing Your Resume? Great Things You Can Do With Resume Writing in La Verne CaliforniaIt is no secret that there are a lot of people who are making more money online these days and finding out how to use the tools available to help them write a better resume is now one of their goals. If you have ever wondered how to find out how to use these programs to your advantage, then you are definitely going to like this article!The truth is that the internet has changed how we work now and we have become increasingly dependent on it has certainly helped us make some serious savings in our time and energy. With this fact in mind, it is essential that we start taking advantage of the tools available online today. Resume writing in La Verne California, for example, can be a great tool for this.As you know, a resume is an important document when it comes to finding a job, getting that job, or getting that promotion. And if you want to go even further, resume writing in La Verne California can a lso help you secure more money online, get more clients, or sell more products online. Using these tools and techniques can certainly help you with these things and make you a more attractive candidate for a job or promotion.When it comes to getting a job, being a top performer is a good idea. So is being a skilled worker. So is being a person who is well-spoken, hard working, and consistent. Resume writing in La Verne California is the best way to impress your employer, as you can show the company that you are extremely professional, organized, knowledgeable, experienced, and trustworthy.In fact, prospective employers are becoming more stringent about hiring people who show potential in several areas, particularly in terms of qualifications. There are all kinds of reasons why a prospective employer would rather look at someone who is better in everything than someone who is just good in one area. One of those reasons is money.Many companies want their potential employees to be give n a chance at a job interview first before they go for the first hire. And while you may be okay at one specific job, you cannot use this excuse to say that you were never able to succeed at another job or at other jobs you have applied for. To be a better job candidate, you need to be able to tell your prospective employer what it was that made you so successful. In other words, you need to know how to write a better resume to demonstrate your skill and expertise.If you know how to use the tools available to write a better resume, it can turn into a winning resume. As a result, your chances of getting a job increase exponentially. So if you want to start applying for jobs, I would recommend you start learning how to write a better resume today!

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3 Reasons Why LinkedIn is NOT the Only Way to Get a Job - Work It Daily

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