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"We may not all be born comedians, but most people are naturally humorous, says Doni Tamblyn, a comic-turned-trainer whose humorous techniques bring serious results at clients such as Chevron, Wells Fargo, and other Fortune 500 companies, universities, and government entities. While Laugh and Learn offers plenty to keep smiles on the faces of trainers and their students, it's not a collection of one-liners and knock-knock jokes. It's an enlightening and practical look at how teachers and training professionals can inject elements of entertainment, creativity, humor, and emotion into their existing methods, even when dealing with serious or technical topics. Filled with fun, challenging, and thought-provoking exercises to help readers feel more comfortable being funny, the book also provides dozens of workshop activities and techniques to introduce humor into the learning environment. Combining the latest brain studies and humor research with the author's own 23 years of experience in comedy and corporate training,
[...]... that humor actually improves retention or retrieval of information? Is humor really an effective teaching tool, or just a feel-good contrivance? Aren’t we safer using the budget to build the currently-needed technical skills rather than training trainers to be funny? This book is written to provide a low-risk, affordable way for teachers, trainers, and speakers to start putting humor to work for them... change, we all need to teach it now! need to do to deal with the Teachers and professors need to encourage cre- increasing complexity of ativity in tomorrow’s workforce Trainers need to society.” Colin Rose, Accelerated do the same for the workforce of today Learning Systems, Inc Communicators of all kinds need to be able to ignite their listeners’ imaginations and open their minds to new ideas In our... “got” it, a fact that must bring moisture to any writer’s eyes Thanks also to Jim Bessent for his patience in the face of deadlines, and to Vera Sarkanj for her work in promoting this book And finally, to all those talented comedians at Traffic Safety Taught with Humor, whose creativity and enthusiasm in teaching “violators” will always inspire and amaze me: Thanks for taking the job seriously It was an... several weeks, presumably all of the information is important, and you want your learners’ brains to code it that way And here is where we really go to work: making information too “big” to fit through the “holes” in the “sieve.” For example, if people tend to remember beginnings and endings best, a good strategy might be to create more beginnings and endings And perhaps not surprisingly, in the 1920s... 255 acknowledgments First and foremost, thanks to Eric Jensen for talking me into writing this book way back in 1997, and for his continued assistance as it was being written Thanks also to Malcolm Kushner, whose many insights and rigorous research on humor in business have long acted as a catalyst to my thinking And thanks for all your personal help and encouragement, Malcolm My first book... about the benefits humor can bring to the invaluable work you do ❖ Be convinced to start using humor ❖ Have a ready “tool box” of tried -and- true techniques to draw on ❖ Feel fearless about using humor in your classroom (and outside it, too) So let’s not waste any time With a subject as big as humor, ” the question is, where to start? Fortunately, I think I have the answer PART I THE WHAT AND WHY This Page... life, and you will still be able to use humor effectively, appropriately, and without fear Now, please don’t get me wrong: I adore a good joke Indeed, as you’ve already seen I use jokes in my own communications But this is only because I am comfortable doing so Since I know that most folks aren’t, this book will focus on the many other (and in fact, better) ways that exist to inspire fun True, here and. .. you’ve got to IN THIS CHAPTER: P T humor, anyway? ❖ Why you don’t have to be a stand-up comic to be an ❖ How humor and creative thinking are the same thing, and how you’re naturally expert at both A excellent humorist ❖ Why corporate America needs people to “noodle around” more businessman was vacationing on the Riviera, when one day he got a call from home It was his butler “I am very sorry to inform you... every chapter contains one or more Reflection Sections, like the one following below I strongly suggest you use these as they appear You will “ YOU’VE GOT TO START HERE: WHAT IS HUMOR, ANYWAY? find your understanding and retention substantially better when you pause to allow the new information you received to incubate So please take five to ten minutes right now to reflect and write about what you’ve... let’s take an important moment to define our terms: What is humor? YOU’VE GOT TO START HERE: WHAT IS HUMOR, ANYWAY? 9 The Case Against Teaching Through Stand-Up Comedy In presenting this topic to thousands of people, I have always started by asking attendees to raise their hands if they think they tell great jokes In virtually every group (worldwide, by the way), at least 95 percent of the audience sits . alt="" laugh and learn 95 ways to use humor for more effective teaching and training This Page Intentionally Left Blank laugh and learn 95 ways to use humor. profes- sional person should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tamblyn, Doni. Laugh and learn : 95 ways to use humor for more effective