- Happy hour is 9-to-5;
- SWITCH Off;
- GO SMILE;
- Work Smarter;
- Change;
- Resilience.
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Corporate Laughter: Creating Harmony in the Workplace
Not only this, laughter can also help you achieve a better mental state. Workplace laughter can be one of the best benefits you can have as part of your job. Recent research suggests that laughter therapy can help you burn calories, cut health care costs, boost blood flow and even assist your arteries for a healthier heart and body.
For organizations, investing in a good laughter workshop should create more harmony in the workplace.
Other benefits include:
• Lower stress hormone levels
• Better immune system
• Pain reduction
• Muscle relaxation
• Cardiovascular conditioning
• Lower blood pressure
• Better mood
Laughter therapy is not just limited to a laughter seminar or workshop. You can have your daily dose of it through a few simple steps:
• Learn to laugh at yourself – learn to accept your mistakes and practice laughing. Sulking on every mistake you make will not do any good. Learn to laugh at your mistakes. You can move forward faster and become more productive.
• Don’t take life too seriously – see the lighter side of life. Enjoy the people around you and watch something to lift your spirits up. Life is too short to spend it miserably. There are times you have to contemplate about things thoroughly but it does not mean you have to be serious all the time. People will find it easier to work with you if you can bring positive vibes into the fold.
• Read something funny or subscribe to an email list or newsletter – reading something uplifting or funny to start the day can have a great impact all throughout your working hours.
Laughter is the best medicine. So why not get some into your workplace? Have laughterworks deliver a laughter session at your next quarterly forum or team-building day. Contact us: info@laughterworks.com.au, or 0438 545 607
3 Ways Laughter Yoga Helps Hone Leadership Skills
Leadership requires having the ability to influence people to fulfill organizational goals. A leader should have a good grasp of what people can do and how to use those potentials to encourage productivity and growth. Having a position of power and authority makes it imperative for leaders to manage challenges and workplace stress efficiently.
Managing stress and workplace challenges require good understanding and positive reinforcement in people. Empowering people requires you to create a positive and encouraging atmosphere. Likewise, leaders should also learn how to encourage positive traits among their employees.
A leader that can maintain emotional balance, and offer empathy and compassion will support better communication and teamwork among their people.
According to research, laughter and leadership work hand in hand. Laugher can lower stress levels including pressure and anxiety. Laughter therapy helps people generate positive thoughts; maintain good disposition promoting clarity and creativity.
There are several deterrents to good leadership that laughter yoga can help address or remove:
• Stress – stress factors can prevent you from working and leading efficiently. A laughter seminar is instant stress reliever. It lowers stress hormones such as epinephrine and cortisol. It also encourages production of endorphins – known popularly as “happy hormones”.
• Removing barriers. Laughter yoga helps ease the tension between co workers. It encourages the thought of “us” instead of “I.” Laughter seminars also encourage compassion and empathy.
• Lack of self-confidence – a leader without self confidence will not be able to empower anyone. Laughing yoga exercises helps people loosen up. It allows people to take it easy on themselves and to laugh at mistakes, thereby increasing your confidence
These are just some of the ways laughter therapy can help leaders better manage their position and those around them. Making it a point to do a few laughing exercises before the day starts or as part of workplace team-building will hone your leadership skills.
Take the lead and book an in-house laughter seminar for your team: Contact us: info@laughterworks.com.au, or 0438 545 607.
8 Laughter Exercises to Manage Work Stress with Laughter Yoga
Stress is everywhere – the hectic schedule, sheer volume of work, pressure and deadlines, takes its toll. While stress goes through cycles, it never seems to stop. Some of the symptoms of stress include:
• Heart palpitations
• High blood pressure
• Decreased immunity
• Stomach upset
• Sleep problems
• Stress headaches
• Back pain
• Chest Pain
• Heart disease
• Anxiety
• Restlessness
• Worrying
• Irritability
• Depression
• Sadness
• Anger
Some people engage in unhealthy activities like overeating or under-eating to loosen up. Fortunately, there some are simple and more harmless way to manage stress and make sure it does not affect your performance and life. Laughter yoga or, to some, laughter therapy, is a simple way to relieve anxiety and other negative emotions. As the name implies, all you need is to have a few good laughs to help you manage the pressure and improve your outlook.
8 Tips for More Laughter Laughing exercises for you to try:
• Making it a habit to laugh 5-10 minutes every morning
• Practicing smiling politely at people
• Sharing jokes with a coworker or a family member
• Looking into the lighter side of things or a situation
• Listing positive things throughout the day
• Listing things you are thankful of
• Reading something funny or watching something funny even a short clip
• Having regular laughter seminars and workshops
There are many ways to incorporate laughter yoga into your everyday life, and workplace. From laughter yoga programs, laughter workshops or simple personal practice, a laugh a day keeps the stress away.
Would like to have more laughter in your life and workplace? Get laughterworks to deliver a laughter session at your workplace or next conference or event? Contact us: info@laughterworks.com.au, or 0438 545 607
Laughter Exercises to Help Build Team Camaraderie at Work
Remember the time you were laughing with someone? How about when somebody cracked a joke and that put you in a better mood? Laughing can be one of the best and simplest ways to improve your mood and disposition. Likewise, it can be also one of the best methods to improve camaraderie in your work place – the trust and rapport between people laughing can be very productive.
Laughter exercises help remove people’s inhibitions and reservations. You can have the benefits right now by practising some laughter therapy techniques or laughing exercises. Give these a try …
Before doing the laughing exercises:
- Make sure to warm up.
- Do some stretching and deep breathing exercises.
Laughing exercises to try:
- Greeting laughter –walk around and great each other with a good laugh
- Gradient laughter –start with a smile, then proceed to a chuckle. The laughter degree should increase slowly until the whole room is laughing already. Driving laughter – this is like role playing. Actors if you are behind the wheel and laugh.
- Argument laughter – great in a workplace . Fake arguments with your co-workers, however, instead of the argument escalating to yelling, laugh instead.
- Mobile phone laughter – this is similar to driving laughter. Act as if you are holding a mobile phone. Walk past your colleagues who are also pretend to hold up the phone, and laugh at what your hearing.
- Heart laughter – engage in a simple talk and laugh heartily.
Not game to try doing this on your own? – Call laughterworks and have a professional run your laughter workshop for you: info@laughterworks.com.au, or 0438 545 607