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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