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How Laughter Makes For a Better Team
For Leaders Keen on Building An Effective Team[Click To Tweet] The Secret To A Happy Team[Click To Tweet] Every organisation wants to be full of winning teams – and much of the work of HR, and leadership and management is to help create those conditions. They can include things like inclusion, shared decision-making, distributed leadership, a good physical environment, a safe place to work, security – and respect for all people, despite their level and role. One thing that all of these methods try to…
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Laughter Helps People Bond
Someone once said that laughter is the shortest distance between two people and they were right. Recent studies have shown that laughter has a domino effect on how well people bond with each other and it’s no surprise given how it is an integral part of every human being. Even before they can speak infants interact with others by laughing and/or smiling. The universal nature of laughter means that it can be found in every group of people in the world and is a potent…
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Warming up the Room at the Start of a Conference
Conferences can often be seen as dull, stuffy affairs, relating to the inner workings of industry or focusing on the same old team-building exercises in business. They can often be reminiscent of high school assemblies, where the audience is sitting around with the look of boredom in their eyes while the speaker drones along with a jargon-filled speech. But they don’t have to be this way, and one way to do it is to shatter expectations and take to the stage, or the front of…
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Who is Doctor Madan Kataria?
Doctor Madan Kataria is an allopathic physician from Mumbai, India who is best known for inventing what he calls “Laughter Yoga”. He is also known as the “Guru of Giggling”. Dr. Kataria was writing an article for a health magazine and remembered his interest in the Reader’s Digest “Laughter, The Best Medicine”. Upon exploring his curiosity, Dr. Kataria discovered a large amount of scientific evidence supporting the hypothesis that laughter is good for both mental and physical health. Laughter reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, releases…
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5 Secrets to Drawing Attendee’s to Your Conference
With how much time, funding, and energy planning a business conference requires, you want to be sure to optimize your profit margin. The best way to do this – besides proper budgeting – is to draw in as many attendees as possible. Business leaders are becoming careful about which conferences they attend. They look to optimize the value of their experience by comparing travel and attendance costs with what your conference has to offer. Follow these 5 tips to take your conference from “just another…
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Keynote Speeches & Laughter Sessions Combined
Happy hour is 9-to-5; SWITCH Off; GO SMILE; Work Smarter; Change; Resilience. Get the best value, and the best delegate experience, when you combine a laughter session with one of our famous keynotes.
Laughter Workshops Build Your Laughter
Everyone has a tremendous potential to laugh but this seems to reduce as we get older. Children laugh 300-400 times a day – not because they have a good sense of humour but because it is the nature of a child to be joyful. By the time we become adults we laugh just 15 times a day (not even that on a bad day).
How to Make A Booking
Like to arrange a laughter session? Wise decision – your boss and colleagues will thank you for it. Arranging a laughter session is easy – just call or email. Let us know: Number of people, time and place. Decide if you want a keynote or shorter session. Need an MC? Choose any special message or a keynote you want included (entirely optional) Confirm your book. Publicise it (we can help) We”ll customise the agenda and deliver the session. Check out our testimonials or give us…
What to Expect at a Laughter Session
Laughter sessions are very easy to have (and enjoy) at your workplace and require no preparation. Just bring yourself along (and your colleagues, children, partner etc). At Laughter Works we often start the session with a short talk on a related topic – usually something tied to the theme of your event or workplace issues. For a full list of talks see conferences. Why do we do this? We usually combine a laughter session with something more because: It gives more people a chance to…