Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Well, I think we're going to have a whole lot of fun here

on episode 23, and this is all about workplace humor and we're talking to Michael

Kerr a hilarious Canadian who has some really fun tidbits associated with how

humor is no joke.

Get it, I made a joke right there.

It's serious business in the sense that it makes a real impact

on your ability to think and innovate and create

and have a positive responses to stress and team

frustrations and all that good stuff. So you're going to learn one, the critical

link between humor and creativity. Two, how to turn stressful situations into

something humorous by using his three R methods,

reframe, reward, and relax, and three, approaches to building a humor first aid kit.

A little bit about Michael here. He's listed as one of Canada's most in-demand speakers as a certified speaking professional, best-selling author, and one of only 22

speakers to be inducted into the Canadian speakers Hall of Fame.

Building on his experience as a quote recovering senior manager Michael travels the

world researching, writing, and speaking about what makes a great workplace great.

He is known as one of North America's leading authorities on how to drive a more positive and

inspiring workplace, the kind of workplace that drives phenomenal success.

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