Making too many jokes may end up coming out of Culatra and harm the reputation of employees or bosses.
How to progress in your career and still enjoy the trip?
A solution offered in business books, LinkedIn publications and team training manuals is Use or humor. Sharing jokes, sarcastic jokes, ironic memes and witty anecdotes, according to the council, will make it more sympathetic, will alleviate stress, strengthen teams, awaken creativity, and even signal leadership potential.
A group of marketing and management teachers who study humor and dynamics in the workplace has published an investigation – which joins a growing body of work by other academics – which shows that It’s harder to be funny than most people think. The disadvantage of telling a bad joke is often greater than what you can earn when telling a good one.
Fortunately, you don’t have to tell hilarious jokes to make humor work in your favor. Can learn to Think like a comedian.
Humor is a risky business
The comedy works by distorting and breaking standards – and when these rules are not broken correctly, it is more likely that Harm your reputation than help your team.
Scientists have developed the “benign violation theory” to explain what makes things funny – and why humor attempts often come out of the culathra, especially in the workplace. Essentially, mood arises when Something is wrong and is acceptable at the same time.
People find jokes to the jokes when they break rules, looking harmless. If you leave one of these ingredients as you tell a joke, your audience won’t like it. When everything is benign and there is no violation, it receives yawns. When everything is violation and not benign, it may end up causing indignation.
It is difficult to laugh out laughs in the darkness of a comedy club. Under the Fluorescent Office Lights, this Ternue line becomes even harder to go. What seems wrong, but acceptable to a colleague, may seem simply wrong to another, especially given the differences in hierarchical level, culture, gender or even the mood in which they find themselves.
A study on advertising
In experiences, when asking for ordinary people to “be funny”, most attempts does not result or exceeds the limits.
In a humorous subtitle contest with management students, described in Peter McGraw’s book on global humor practices, “The Humor Code”, subtitles were not particularly funny to start. However, those that were evaluated by the jurors as the funniest were often also classified as the most unpleasant.
Being funny without being offensive is of primary importance. This is particularly true for women, as robust literature shows that they face harder reactions than men for behaviors considered offensive or violate norms, such as expressing anger, acting dominantly or even “making orders” in negotiations.
It may end up not being respected
Research from other academics that examine the behavior of leaders and managers in organizations tell a similar story.
In a study, managers who used humor effectively were seen as more confident and competentincreasing your status. However, when their attempts failed, these same managers lost status and credibility. Other researchers have found that the unsuccessful mood not only impairs a manager’s statute, but also makes employees less likely to respect him, to look for his advice, or to trust his leadership.
Even when the jokes result, humor can come out of the culathra. In a study, marketing students instructed to write “funny” texts for ads wrote ads that were funniest but also less effectivethan the students instructed to write “creative” or “persuasive” texts.
Another study found that bosses who play too many often press workers to pretend to be fun, which drains energy, reduces job satisfaction and increases burnout. And the Risks are bigger for women due to a standard double. When women use mood in presentations, they are often judged as less capable and with a status inferior than men’s.
The point is that telling a good joke rarely guarantees a promotion. And making a bad joke can put your job at risk “Even if you’re not a talk show host that makes a living to make people laugh.”
Reverse the script
Instead of trying to be funny at work, it is recommended that we focus on what we call “thinking funny”-as described in another book of McGraw, “Shtic to Business.”
“As Best ideas come up as jokes“One day said the legend of advertising David Ogilvy.” Try to make your thinking as funny as possible. “
But Ogilvy was not telling executives to make jokes at meetings. He was encouraging workers to think as comedians, reversing expectations, leveraging their networks and finding their niche.
Comedians many times take him to one way and then reversed the script. Comedian Henny Youngman, master of effect phrases, said the famous phrase: “When I read about the dangers of the drink, I gave up… to read“The business version of this convention is to challenge an obvious assumption.
For example, the “Do not buy this coat” campaign from Patagonia, which the outdoor activities company has launched on the 2011 Black Friday as an entire page announcement at The New York Times, paradoxically boosted sales by denouncing excessive consumption.
To apply this method, choose an obsolete assumption that your team has, such as adding features to a product always improves or having more meetings will result in more fluid coordination, and ask, “What if the opposite were true?”
It will discover options that traditional brainstorming ignores.
Create an abyss
When comedian Bill Burr makes their fans laugh out laughing, you know that some people won’t find a joke to their jokes-and don’t try to conquer them.
Many of the best humorists do not try to please everyone. They can reach their audience in a deliberate way. And also the companies that make the same build stronger brands.
For example, when the Nebraska Tourism Council adopted the phrase “Honestly, it is not for everyone”In a 2019 campaign, directed to visitors from outside the state, web traffic increased 43%.
Some people want hot tea. Others want iced tea. Serving warm tea does not satisfy anyone. Similarly, you can succeed in business deciding to those who are your idea and who is not, and then adapting your product, politics or presentation in accordance.
Cooperate to innovate
Stand-up may seem like a solo act. But humorists depend on feedback – provocations of colleagues and public reactions – iteling jokes just as Lean Startups can innovate new products.
Building success teams at work means listening before you talk, making your partners look good and balance the papers. The improvisation teacher Billy Merritt described Three types of improvising. Pirates are those who take risks. The robots are structure builders. The ninjas are skilled in both, risking and building structures.
A team that conceives a new application, for example, needs the three: pirates to propose bold features, robots to optimize the interface and ninjas to fill in gaps. Empowering all in these functions leads to bolder ideas with fewer blind spots.
Gifts are not universal
To tell someone to “be funny” is like telling someone to “be musical.” Many of us have been able to keep the pace, but few have what it takes to become rock stars.
This is why we argue that it is smarter to think as a comedian than trying to act as a.
By reversing assumptions, cooperating to innovate and creating chasms, professionals can generate new solutions and stand out-without becoming jokes in the office.
