Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon at Work with Naomi Bagdonas

Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon at Work with Naomi Bagdonas

Join us as our host, George Kamel, talks with Naomi Bagdonas. She’s a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an executive coach. Naomi is also a coauthor of the bestselling book, Humor, Seriously. In this episode, she shares the benefits of humor at work, the different humor styles we use, and what to do when a joke doesn’t land. Later, George chats with Kacy Maxwell—the executive director of marketing for EntreLeadership. He shares when not to use humor at work (from personal experience). When figuring out what type of humor is appropriate for the workplace, it’s important to be aware of the fine line between stuff we should and shouldn’t say. You’ll learn: • Why you should laugh more at work • The four styles of humor at work • How to recover from a bad joke at work • How humor can go completely wrong at work Sign up for The EntreLeadership Podcast takeaways—a weekly email where you’ll get three tangible takeaways and a tactical action step related to each episode: https://bit.ly/podcast-takeaways Support our sponsors: • Hite Digital: https://bit.ly/HiteDigital • Kyro Digital: https://bit.ly/KyroDigital • NetSuite: https://bit.ly/NetSuiteEntre • Trainual: https://bit.ly/TrainualEntre Links mentioned in this episode: • The EntreLeadership Podcast: https://bit.ly/TheEntreLeadershipPodcast • Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas: https://amzn.to/3BML5lV • Take The Humor Typology Quiz to find out your humor style: https://bit.ly/3Ljr1Ld • Naomi Bagdonas and Jennifer Aaker’s TED Talk: https://bit.ly/3RPr9Et • Sign up for your 30-day free trial of EntreLeadership Elite: https://bit.ly/3x40ASS Learn more about EntreLeadership Events: • EntreLeadership Master Series: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipMasterSeries • EntreLeadership Summit: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipSummit Learn more about EntreLeadership Coaching: • Elite: https://bit.ly/3tI2fN8 • Advisory Groups: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipAdvisoryGroups • Executive Coaching: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipExecutiveCoaching • Workshops: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipWorkshops Listen to all the Ramsey Network podcasts anytime, anywhere in our app. Download the Ramsey Network app: https://apple.co/3eN8jNq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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