481: Easy Ways to Have More Fun at Work with Drew Tarvin

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🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Drew Tarvin shares how to bring more humor and fun into the workplace. You'll Learn: The power of humor on your work-life productivity How to craft good work humor that considers medium, audience, and purpose The 3 specific situations when NOT to use humor at work About Drew: Andrew Tarvin is the world's first humor engineer, teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. Combining his background as a project manager at Procter & Gamble with his experience as a stand-up comedian, he reverse-engineers the skill of humor in a way that is practical, actionable, and gets results in the workplace. Through his company, Humor That Works, Drew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association of Canine Professionals. He is a bestselling author; has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company; and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than four million times. He loves the color orange, is obsessed with chocolate, and can solve a Rubiks Cube (but it takes like 7 minutes). Drew’s Book: "Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work" Drew’s Twitter: @drewtarvin Drew’s Website: Humor That Works Resources mentioned in the show: Comedy Sketch: Key & Peele text message confusion (NSFW) Study: Candlestick Problem App: Evernote Book: “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson Thank you, Sponsors! Blinkist: Read or listen to summarized wisdom from thousands of nonfiction books! Free trial available at blinkist.com/awesome View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep481 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	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.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.0	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 481.
0:22.0	I think this is a fun one because our guest Drew
0:24.8	is talking all about fun and bringing more humor into work, how it's done well,
0:29.6	not so well, and the real impact that makes. So you'll learn one the power of humor on your work life
0:34.7	productivity. Two how to craft good work humor that considers medium, audience and purpose and three,
0:41.3	three specific situations when not to use humor at work.
0:44.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced,
0:47.6	and said all submit your job.com slash F481.
0:50.8	Now here's Drew's story.
0:52.0	Andrew Tarvin is the world's first humor engineer
0:54.5	teaching people how to get better results while having more fun.
0:57.3	Combining his background as a project manager at Procter and Gamble with his
1:00.8	experience as a stand-up comedian he reverse engineers the skill of
1:04.4	humor in a way that's practical actionable and gets results in the workplace through
1:08.6	his company humor that works drew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including
1:15.0	Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association of K-9 Professionals.
1:19.0	He's a best-selling author, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company, and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than four million times. He loves the color orange,
1:27.8	is obsessed with chocolate and can solve a Rubik's cube, although it will take him
1:32.0	seven full minutes.
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