I believe that humor in communication if used skillfully, can help establish great rapport with your audience or your co-workers. I find that it can ease tension and help in responding to a hostile question or situation. Humor in my opinion can also help emphasize a key point or message that you are trying to communicate. I know it can help to keep your audience's attention, increasing interest in what you're saying or trying to get done. Humor is awesome in the way it lets your audience see your human side. I find that information or instruction that is conveyed with a little bit of humor is more likely to be remembered. To me humor in communication reduces hostility, it can deflect criticism, it will relieve tension and it can improve morale. I think it can also help communicate difficult messages; especially those that you do not want to have to give a difficult message to, such a write up or corrective action to someone for not doing their job to the best of their ability. I try to find positivity and some humor; it seems to help convey my message a lot clearer and a little easier. Plus it makes people feel at ease. In my personal opinion humor can re-ignite high performance or activity in a company. I think that humor gives powers to your creativity and gives you the ability to be imaginative. I think that humor can really give a person the ability to think outside the box; and when they do it seems to me to be easier to convey that message with a little humor so people feel comfortable with a new idea. In my opinion when humor is integrated into a business environment, it can make the difference between success and failure. To me plain and simple humor is just good for business; it’s critical to any organization’s strategic gain in the market-place. A fun place to work is a great place to work. A great example is the Google organization. If you were to go to their corporate offices and just take five minutes to look at the people from Google; you would see that they are having a great time doing their jobs because they use humor throughout their day, plus they developed their staff so that they can have cohesion and a sense of a team effort in the workplace.
Another great thing about humor that I see day to day is that humorous communication can reduce stress. I often hear that work is often associated with stress, at least in my experience with work; and I know that stress is one of the main causes of illness and employee burn-out. I see it all the time. Humor is a great stress reliever because it makes everyone feel good, and in my opinion we can't feel good enough. I know that feeling good and feeling stressed at the same time are very hard to accomplish. In my estimation at the moment when we experience humor, feelings like depression, anger, and anxiety usually disappear.
As I said earlier I feel that humor and laughter really reduce stress. In fact, I would say that some would lose muscle control. I often think of laughter as the jogging and juggling of the internal organs. I know when I laugh I feel physically better and I have noticed the same about my co-workers. When we laugh people just feel physically better, and after laughter we feel lighter and more relaxed. At least I do. In addition, humor provides an emotional stress reducer as it snaps our thinking to another channel. We find things humorous when they are inappropriate or strange. Humor is great can it can lighten the mood.
In my opinion humor provides perspective, as well. I think that humor is a great way to share lectures, stories, and anecdotes that in order to grasp attention and energize any audience. In my experience a few moments of humor at work can lead to increased productivity.
We have all heard humor directed at lawyers, medical personnel, scientists, engineers, business persons, educators, etc. Learning to laugh at ourselves is great and it helps lighten the load at work. In my opinion humor is a major career asset, so let's be serious about humor and use humor to lighten our seriousness in the workplace. I think as we increase our personal humor quotient and spread our humor contagiously to others, we will begin to see the "lite" at the end of the tunnel. I find that you can provide a sense of confidence when using humor to reach out to your co- workers. Playful joking also increases the likelihood of financial concessions during a negotiation. I find that it is calming the other person and building trust makes them see you more as a friend and hence deserving of a better deal. Again humor in communication if used skillfully, can help establish rapport with your audience or your co-workers. In my opinion it really makes the difference between a successful organization and one that is not.
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