Laugh - it’s funny! (And productive!)
October 19th, 2007 by Allen VoivodI recently wrote something like, “Geez, how many blogs do you write, anyway?” to Patsi Krakoff while we were trading emails earlier this week. I just learned about yet another one of hers, which you’ll find here, and is definitely worth adding to your blog reader if you want to learn more about writing great ezines and blogs.
But I guess I could say the same thing, since I blog for a couple of client websites in addition to contributing to our own. And though executive resumes aren’t all that relevant to this blog, something that came across my radar for Career-Resumes.com also applies here.
The staffing firm Robert Half International just released the results of a work and humor survey, and they found that 97% of professionals believe humor to be a very important quality for managers to have. 97%! Who the heck are the 3% who don’t think it’s important?!
A couple of years ago, I interviewed an expert at the Annenberg School of Communication about the intersection of politics and humor, and she told me about how you have to make a connection in your mind to “get” a joke, and how that invests you in the subject matter in a way.
It’s got to work the same way in the workplace. Though moderation is always key, making the mental fun connections on the job - whether it’s corporate America or your own one-man / one-woman entrepreneurial show - positively increases your emotional investment in the work, and that’s only going to make you more motivated to succeed in whatever you do.
So laugh already! Besides, it’s Friday, and if there’s any day more conducive to workplace laughter than Fridays, it’s not a day that ends in “y,” that’s for sure.
