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Today’s business environment is filled with anxiety, fear, turmoil and stress that strains and drains our emotional systems and we cannot work to our fullest potential. By learning to successfully minimize stress we become more efficient, productive, creative and profitable. Practice Safe Stress is an informative presentation with learning, laughter and music that will stay with your audience long after the meeting has ended.

Barry’s unique approach for minimizing day-to-day stress by using our “inner sense of humor” will have an immediate, positive impact on your audience. Custom tailored to meet the specific needs of attendees, this presentation will inform and delight any group and have a positive impact on improved day-to-day performance.

• Increase profitability
• Be more productive
• Regain your competitive edge
• Improve relations with clients and co-workers
• Approach each day with a more cheerful attitude

Summary

This is not about telling jokes, but rather a means of using our “inner sense of humor” and ‘humor memory’ to help us through any stressful situation and improve our lives. Barry’s best selling book, Practice Safe Stress, has been getting wonderful reviews and attests to this philosophy.

Outline

Understanding the philosophy behind the program

Defining your Inner Sense of Humor

What to do instead of counting to 10
Finding the humor in any situation

The Harvard Studies
How they relate to our business & personal lives

Demonstrate the relationship between reduced stress and profitability, productivity and efficiency.

The importance of attitude

The Five Minute Fun Fling
What it is, how & when to use it

The Humor Journal
Why it is a great tool

Dealing with Mr. or Ms. Stress
Visualization & Imagery

Humor props & Rubber Bands!

A brief explanation of Endorphins & how to generate them

Understanding how what you anticipate dictates how you feel

“The TV Game”

A word from the Mayo Clinic

Final summation, review, Q & A

Learner Outcomes

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

Minimize day-to-day stress with an eye towards greater profitability, productivity and efficiency

Use their Inner Sense of Humor to minimize day-to-day stress, anger & frustration.

Face each day with a more cheerful attitude resulting in greater efficiency, productivity & creativity.

Establish a frame of mind to keep day-to-day stress at a minimum.

Add appropriate humor to any situation, sales pitch, meeting or presentation.

Effectively deal with individuals who cause stress; on the spot!

Effectively use Humor Props.

Understand the importance of putting situations into proper perspective by using their Humor Memory.

Have a practical, new tool to improve life!

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Innovative Strategies for Success in the Current Business Environment

April 5, 2009 Programs and Presentations

The changes and chaos in today’s business world brings new problems and requires new ways of thinking, selling and strategizing. Business leaders and producers need Innovative Strategies on the front line to move ahead as competition intensifies.
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These include:
• Finding emerging leaders
• Passion
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The *L.I.F.E. Approach is about using our inner sense of humor to improve our lives…everyday! Lilly Tomlin points out that, “Laughter improves the shelf life of our sanity.” And, indeed it does. How we generate that humor is the essence of the philosophy of L.I.F.E.
The presentation is fun and fast paced and attendees will come [...]

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April 2, 2009 Programs and Presentations

This 90-minute, fast paced workshop will provide participants with various strategies to turn problems into possibilities for success. Together we will move step-by-step, from analyzing factors that affect our thinking, to identifying problem solving possibilities and then, to selecting the very best and learn the simple secrets to confident, defensible, decision-making. Attendees will understand the [...]

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April 1, 2009 Programs and Presentations

Self-Esteem, more than anything else, pushes us to accomplish more than anyone might expect. This one-of-a-kind experience combines the vital tools to develop and enhance your self-esteem, motivation and creativity with audience participation, laughter, music and song. In this program you’ll learn to work with greater confidence and achieve greater success.
On the spot, you will [...]

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